The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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Who are all those people on the farm?
We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas written by John Boyne and directed by Mark Herman. It is the story of a young boy, age eight, named Bruno "Asa Butterfield", living during World War II in Germany. Its in the middle of World War II, and Bruno's father is an officer in the Nazi regime. Well, one day his father comes home and says, " I have been promoted.", then asks his family, if they wouldn't mind moving away from Berlin to keep his promotion, in addition to living in a new home. Bruno's mother and father make the final decision, they decide to move from the luxurious home to keep his promotion. Turns out they end up moving to a huge, concrete, bunker-like, house outside a military base. Bruno in his curiosity stop to look out the window to see where his father works. All he sees are strange people walking around in the distance .He asks if he can go play with the children on the farm that he can see out his window. His parents forbid him even to go into the backyard of their house. His parents decide to shelter poor Bruno, from the fact that his father is actually running a concentration camp. The boy can't help his curiosity and pure boredom, of living with no friends, only to entertain himself to go exploring beyond his front yard. Not only just into the forbidden backyard, but off the property of his fenced off home. To go investigate the farm he can see so distantly, from the window in his house. Only to discover in his eyes , a small farmer boy sitting near the outer fence dressed in stripped pajamas.

  I wish I could tell you everything about this story. However, that would just spoil the whole movie. It is a very touching and a bit of a sad movie. To see this young boy Bruno, slowly find out that the people living in the distance; that his father is watching over is not actually a farm at all. It shows the antisemitism towards the Jews in World War II and the abuse they suffered in concentration camps. Most of it all this movie makes the point, that whatever people may think, we are just human beings. Furthermore, that hatred can only run so deep. I highly recommend that you see this film , the cast of this movie could not have been better. Especially the two young boys Asa Butterfield, also Jack Scanlon playing "Shmuel", the young Jewish boy. You will find this movie very touching nevertheless, hard not to stay out of grasp of this films sorrow.

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