The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas

The Boy In Stripped Pyjamas


Retell:
The movie “The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas” is a movie set during World War II about a 8
year old boy name Young Bruno, he lives a wealthy life with his mother, sister and his Commandant father. The family has to move due to his fathers assigned job, which is to take control of the prison camp. This leaves Bruno without any friends, he begins to wander around and look for new adventurous things. As he finds himself behind the fence of the extermination camp for Jewish, he meets a boy name Shmuel. Bruno visited Shmuel everyday to talk and play with him, but Bruno’s father and mother believe he should move away. The day of his departure , Bruno sneaks under the electrified fence and into the extermination camp. Bruno has snuck into the camp without knowing any of the consequences that Jewish had to face in the extermination camps.


Relate:
The movie "The Boy In Stripped Pyjamas" reminds me of children around the world and how their innocence is lost. Children are not aware of the real world and have a different perspective on the world. In the movie, Bruno was not aware of what was happening to the Jewish people inside the concentration camps. He was not aware of how they were treated, he only saw happiness and can not see the real world. Just like children in society, they do not see the real world because of their innocence, they become blind to the real world.I believe Bruno portrays how children are impacted by society and are taught the wrong things, like in the movie, Bruno and his sister were taught to hate the Jewish and blame them for every mistake. Society brain washes children and are taught to believe in the bad things. Therefore I believe innocence of children are lost due to the media, adults and other things that convey a message about negative beliefs and ideas. 


Reflect:
I enjoyed watching this movie because it was interesting hearing from an 8 year old boys
perspective on war. It made the movie more enjoyable because not only was it a historical it was also a tragicomedy movie. I believe this movie portrayed the message of innocence being lost in children during war, it shows this because Bruno was not aware of how the Jewish were begin mistreated. He was not aware of any of the consequences and decided to go into the extermination camp to help his Jewish friend find his father. Bruno portrayed his innocence throughout the movie for example, when Bruno did not know the smell was the smell of Jewish being burned. He was not aware of what really was occurring. I believe this movie has done a job well done at portraying a view point of an 8 year old boy during war. I also enjoyed this movie because it was not what I expected, I expected Bruno to hate Jewish as well but it shows that Bruno still accepted them. It shows that children are more capable to accept others than adults during World War II. I believe this movie deserves a 10/10 because it has accomplished making this movie as a 8 year old boy saw the world during World War II, I enjoyed this movie.