For my second assigned blog, I watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
This movie is about a kid named Bruno, who meets Shmuel, a Jew, in a concentration camp. Bruno met Shmuel after his dad and the family was moved to the country so his dad could be put in charge of the concentration camp. One of the first things Bruno noticed about Shmuel was that he had these interesting striped pajamas on.
Bruno's father told him that the people in striped pajamas were not real people, but he can't understand that. Bruno starts talking food to Shmuel and playing games with him after he learns he was hungry.
Shmuel ends up working as a servant in the Bruno's house until thin
gs go downhill and Shmuel gets beat by the man in charge. When Bruno's mother decides it is not a good place for kids to grow up, the family decides to move away. When the two boys are talking, Bruno decides to help Shmuel to try and find his dad so he sneaks into the camp. Not too long after they are inside, they are marched into a 'shower', which is actually a gas chamber. The two boys and everybody else in the building died. The adults at Brunos house learn that he is missing and fi
nd his clothes by the fense. They try to save him, but it was too late.
I thought that the movie does an okay job of showing what was going on in concentration camps. For an educational film and how much I liked it I would rate it a 4/10. For people who like this kind of movie it might be better, but personally, I did not find it a very good movie.
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Wow. That is the lowest I have ever seen anyone rate this movie. Interesting.