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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
PERIOD 3 - THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS.
Please share your thoughts about the film.
18 comments:
Jesse Blackwell
said...
I thought this film was very interesting but also immensely depressing. At the end of the movie I knew that Bruno's father would not make it to him in time and yet I found myself hoping and even wishing he would. It was very upsetting to see such a terrible ending to such a young and innocent child's life. But then as I was feeling bad about this one single child it made me stop and think that not just one child died, but millions. I think it is not even possible for one single person to feel for each and every person who died in the Holocaust, there is simply an unimaginable amount of pain. At the end of the movie the viewer is left with a real shitty feeling to be honest. You are reflecting on Bruno's death and the deaths of so many more. As I watched the end of the movie I knew it would end by fading out in the shower scene but again I wished it would not. Although I am left with both depressed and sad feelings after watching the movie I know that is the goal of this film, to give the viewers just a small taste of the pain that the Holocaust has caused.
For me, this was the most emotional and heart-jerking movie we have watched in class this year. As the viewer, we follow Bruno throughout his adventures and his curiosity of his surroundings. He was so naive to the Holocaust, that it ultimately caused him to be gassed to death. It was very hard to watch such an innocent boy be murdered by the people who work for his own father. Also, the destruction of the mother was hard to watch. Once she realized the entire truth of what her husband was involved in, her character completely changed. The day she tried to take the kids and leave did not turn out as she expected. Bruno, who just wanted to help out his friend, ended up dying because of the selfishness of the Nazi's. Bruno did not deserve to die like that and neither did the Jews.
This movie has been the hardest movie to watch for me since starting this course. I think it was the hardest to watch because of the young children that we got to know in the film. We were able to see into the lives of a young Jewish and German child. It was heart breaking to see their friendship end just after days of meeting each other. It was also awful to see the little girl who after reading just a couple of books and and listening to the tutor, agreed with what her country was doing. Bruno was able to at least think about it a little more and kind of saw what was going on. Bruno still didn't understand what was happening and it was terrible to see him try to help a friend and ultimately die along with many other Jews.
The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was very sad at the end. I wanted the Jewish boy to escape when they dug the hole under the fence. I thought when the Jewish boy was caught eating and the German boy did not stick up for him, that the Jewish boy would die. It made the ending even sadder when the Jewish boy comes back after being missing for days, because after that the two boys walk into the crematorium while they are looking for his father, who is already dead. This movie was one of the most moving for me because it involved two 8 year old boys that died in the end.
I thought this film really brought to life the despair and emptiness the Jewish people felt in the concentration camps. While I was watching it, I almost felt like I was there. I wanted to believe that both boys would escape back through the fence they came in from and leave, but I knew they could not have. The horrible, depressed feeling I left the film with was emphasized when I realized that this is only the sad death of two children and does not account for the deaths of millions of Jewish people. How can one possibly feel all of their sadness.
This film was excellent i found it hard to look away from the screen. The story is very sad and i never new what to expect what was going to happen. The friendship between Bruno and Schmuel is so interesting. Schmuel clearly understands what is going on because he is living in the concentration camp and Bruno is so naive. Some of the comments that Bruno makes towards Schmuel are so disturbing but he says them clearly because he is just naive. I found myself to have mixed feelings of anger and sadness throughout the movie. When Bruno betrays Schmuel i felt that he was leaning towards the Nazi beliefs and i was sickened that he would betray his only friend to look in front of the Nazi guard. When the Nazi teenager was yelling at Schmuel and said "I will talk to you later" i felt like his life was over and thankfully it turned out that he was still alive, however he had been beaten which is just disturbing because of his age. The innocence in the friendship between these two eight year old boys is amazing and shows how some people disagreed with the Nazi party. This movie is brilliant and there is so much to say about it, i feel like this movie out of every other that we have watched has made the biggest impact on me.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was another movie that was really hard to watch, because it brought some of the pain of the Holocaust back to life. It followed the tragic story of a German family that was ripped apart. It was sad to watch the father be so completely absorbed by his "work", because he truly believed he was making the world a better place. Once the mother realized what he was really doing, she just deteriorated. The sister was so easily convinced that the Jews were evil and no longer felt any sympathy for them or their pain. It was awful to watch Pavel, a kind, intelligent, and innocent man, be dragged away to his death, because of one harmless mistake. It was hard to watch Bruno and Schmuel form a friendship, knowing that it was bound to end terribly. Watching children so easily overcome their differences just emphasizes the fact that the pain and death from the Holocaust was so, so unnecessary. It's absolutely crucial to never forget how easily people can be persuaded to do appalling things.
To me, this film had the most gravity of any non-documentary film we've watched this year. It was heavy and powerful, and yet it didn't have the cumbersome dramatization that I've felt with most of the movies we've watched. You get to know this boy, Bruno and feel his naivete and innocence. In not showing the camp throughout the film, other than what Bruno sees from the outside, the story makes no assumptions and is far more effective in its subtlety. Thus, the closing sequence is that more traumatizing and evocative. It was a truly powerful film unlike anything we've seen thus far.
so, ive seen this movie before. and when i first saw it when it came out. it was a rough movie to see. anytime seeing a child hurt or armed is extremely painful to watch. watching schmuel attack the food that bruno gave him made me so angry. the lies and the complete submission to the people in command was disgusting. when brunos mom found out her suspions about the extermination camp, she did NOTHING. but u could see that it was clearly bothering her. and what she choose to do was get away from it. and the line in the movie that completely made me sick was when bruno's sister said. it might be horrible for them but its not for us. that is the WORST comment i think anyone could posssilby say. it made me SO sO mad. espesially because i think alot of the evil horrible stuff that happens in the world ( and isnt stopped ) BECAUSE thats how people think. "well my lifes great so..." it was so...grr. i feel like the father was stupid, only thinking of his job. Because honestly. who would bring their KIDS not even a mile from an extermination camp where u can smell the burning FLESH of millions of people, close enough that bruno could run every day and no one wonder where he was during the time.i was glad though, how clearly the innocence and teh curruption was shown through the movie. the tutor, the sister, the soliders, daddy, the movies. when bruno apologized to schmuel for lying about being his friend and thse two complete stranger children still are friends and end up dying together. in a way i think that was the best ending. them dying together as equal..if that makes any sense. overall it was an incredible movie. extremely extremely sad...but the fact is. all of it could have been stopped if anyone ANYONE. grew balls to stnad for what is right. :)
This film was easily the most effective video we've watched all year. I can honestly say that I have never seen 20 students sit silently for a full three minutes at the conclusion of a film in class. Personally, I was extremely upset and depressed after watching the film. I could sense tragedy was on its way, and then it happened, in the matter of minutes. I felt a connection with Bruno and could sense his true, innocent juvenility, which the film clearly tried to establish. This made it even tougher to bear what happened to him at the end of the film. Watching how each member of the Commandant's family reacted to the realities of the situation was interesting. The daughter showed how easily the youth of Germany was brainwashed into believing what the Nazi's were doing was right. On the other hand, the mother really confused me. When Bruno was able to see the "farm" from his window, the mother said something to her husband indicating that she knew of the camp's existence. But, later on, when she discovered what the burning smell was, she was traumatized. She clearly was battling her own emotions and felt hopeless, choosing to leave the house and bring her children somewhere else. The father, who acted as the ruthless Commandant of the camp, was a true Nazi. He explained he was forced to lie to his wife, and betrayed his family throughout the film. I believe that his mother was murdered for showing disloyalty to the Nazi Party, a claim probably brought up by himself. He lost his son because of his commitment to the Nazi Party. That in itself makes no sense to me.
Later today, hours after viewing the film's conclusion, I thought about something. I noticed I was so disturbed about the murder of the two young boys in the film, yet did not even acknowledge the other hundreds of people in the gas chamber with them. I thought I would feel relieved if somehow the two boys were saved from their death, but in reality, that still meant hundreds of victims. The movie gave us an idea of the horrors of the Holocaust and concentration camps, but we must view the situation on a larger scale. Millions and millions of people lost loved ones during this time, and we are distraught over the death of two boys who we knew for merely two hours. I've tried putting myself into these people's shoes, but I know that it is not the same. The film allowed me to experience a small dosage of what it was like to lose someone I cared about to the gas chambers.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was a fantasic movie in that it protrayed an innocent German son of a Nazi Officer and his relationship with the boy in the concentraton camp, was a new look into the reality of of the camps and how well perserved they were from society. That is ultimatley what killed Brunno because everyone in the household had no idea except for the servants and Nazi soldiers. Brunno's dad lived a lie, when his mom found out she was deeply distraught. Brunno never learned the severity of the situation, that propaganda movie shown at their house kept Brunno even more sure that the Nazi's were doing good. Overall good movie and very sad.
I think this movie is emotional and shows the tragedy of Holocaust with interesting point of view. This movie uses young boy, Bruno’s view. As a young child, he is very pure. He doesn’t understand what are happening around him and he is very curious and wants to know. I think that the Nazis Holocaust killed him. This was second time that I watched this movie. Even this is second time, this movie impacts me, how the Holocaust was sad and horrible event and how the Nazis were cruel and terrible.
This movie was very moving and interesting yet very hard to watch as some scenes were disturbing. I told my mom and sister about the movie and I found myself saying over and over again just how terrible it all was. Everything about the Holocaust was kept a secretive for so long. It amazed me how the wife didn't even fully understand the happenings in the camp. I was glad to see her opposition to such camps. Comparatively, it was awful to watch the husband defend himself and his job by saying they were fighting a war. It just seems so unreal how the Nazis could manipulate people's minds into believing that what they were doing was just. Bruno is reason that they have no right to treat Jews in such an inhumane way. He is an innocent, naive boy , and because of this he is a voice of reason: Bruno's family wants to keep the camp a secret from him. This proves the camps are an awful place because they cannot even tell Bruno the truth about what goes on in the "farm." In discussing the movie with my family, we talked about how sad and terrible Bruno's death was, but the dad deserved to feel such immense pain for his loss because before he wasn't able to understand what he was doing to hundreds of thousands of Jewish families.
After watching this film, immediate tears came to my eyes. Though, this film was very interesting, the fact that Bruno's father was unable to get to Bruno in time was very upsetting to watch. What amazed me mos tin this movie is how the wife had no idea what was going on at the concentration camp, even though she was married to a Nazi. The innocence of Bruno is what was the saddest part to watch. He just wanted a friend. It was so easy for Shule and Bruno to get along even though Shule was Jewish, so why couldn't the rest of the world get along? This film left me feelign very depressed and upset, but I was able to understand a different side of pain that was caused by the Holocaust.
After watching this film, immediate tears came to my eyes. Though, this film was very interesting, the fact that Bruno's father was unable to get to Bruno in time was very upsetting to watch. What amazed me mos tin this movie is how the wife had no idea what was going on at the concentration camp, even though she was married to a Nazi. The innocence of Bruno is what was the saddest part to watch. He just wanted a friend. It was so easy for Shule and Bruno to get along even though Shule was Jewish, so why couldn't the rest of the world get along? This film left me feelign very depressed and upset, but I was able to understand a different side of pain that was caused by the Holocaust.
I thought this was a great movie. It was a very entertaining one but also very say. I didn't feel very sorry for the father who ran the concentration camp. Even though he lost his son, it was his own fault. Millions of Jews were losing families in this concentration camps. He lost one boy. I felt bad for the mother because when she found out about what was happening she seemed very against it. But although this young boy was innocent I just think of how many millions of Jews were innocent and had much worse done to them rather than just death. It was sad to see a kid who was trying to help one of the young prisoners find his dad died but he was the son of the man enabling this systematic murder to happen. So in some way this is almost a type of justice.
18 comments:
I thought this film was very interesting but also immensely depressing. At the end of the movie I knew that Bruno's father would not make it to him in time and yet I found myself hoping and even wishing he would. It was very upsetting to see such a terrible ending to such a young and innocent child's life. But then as I was feeling bad about this one single child it made me stop and think that not just one child died, but millions. I think it is not even possible for one single person to feel for each and every person who died in the Holocaust, there is simply an unimaginable amount of pain. At the end of the movie the viewer is left with a real shitty feeling to be honest. You are reflecting on Bruno's death and the deaths of so many more. As I watched the end of the movie I knew it would end by fading out in the shower scene but again I wished it would not. Although I am left with both depressed and sad feelings after watching the movie I know that is the goal of this film, to give the viewers just a small taste of the pain that the Holocaust has caused.
For me, this was the most emotional and heart-jerking movie we have watched in class this year. As the viewer, we follow Bruno throughout his adventures and his curiosity of his surroundings. He was so naive to the Holocaust, that it ultimately caused him to be gassed to death. It was very hard to watch such an innocent boy be murdered by the people who work for his own father. Also, the destruction of the mother was hard to watch. Once she realized the entire truth of what her husband was involved in, her character completely changed. The day she tried to take the kids and leave did not turn out as she expected. Bruno, who just wanted to help out his friend, ended up dying because of the selfishness of the Nazi's. Bruno did not deserve to die like that and neither did the Jews.
This movie has been the hardest movie to watch for me since starting this course. I think it was the hardest to watch because of the young children that we got to know in the film. We were able to see into the lives of a young Jewish and German child. It was heart breaking to see their friendship end just after days of meeting each other. It was also awful to see the little girl who after reading just a couple of books and and listening to the tutor, agreed with what her country was doing. Bruno was able to at least think about it a little more and kind of saw what was going on. Bruno still didn't understand what was happening and it was terrible to see him try to help a friend and ultimately die along with many other Jews.
The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was very sad at the end. I wanted the Jewish boy to escape when they dug the hole under the fence. I thought when the Jewish boy was caught eating and the German boy did not stick up for him, that the Jewish boy would die. It made the ending even sadder when the Jewish boy comes back after being missing for days, because after that the two boys walk into the crematorium while they are looking for his father, who is already dead. This movie was one of the most moving for me because it involved two 8 year old boys that died in the end.
I thought this film really brought to life the despair and emptiness the Jewish people felt in the concentration camps. While I was watching it, I almost felt like I was there. I wanted to believe that both boys would escape back through the fence they came in from and leave, but I knew they could not have. The horrible, depressed feeling I left the film with was emphasized when I realized that this is only the sad death of two children and does not account for the deaths of millions of Jewish people. How can one possibly feel all of their sadness.
This film was excellent i found it hard to look away from the screen. The story is very sad and i never new what to expect what was going to happen. The friendship between Bruno and Schmuel is so interesting. Schmuel clearly understands what is going on because he is living in the concentration camp and Bruno is so naive. Some of the comments that Bruno makes towards Schmuel are so disturbing but he says them clearly because he is just naive. I found myself to have mixed feelings of anger and sadness throughout the movie. When Bruno betrays Schmuel i felt that he was leaning towards the Nazi beliefs and i was sickened that he would betray his only friend to look in front of the Nazi guard. When the Nazi teenager was yelling at Schmuel and said "I will talk to you later" i felt like his life was over and thankfully it turned out that he was still alive, however he had been beaten which is just disturbing because of his age. The innocence in the friendship between these two eight year old boys is amazing and shows how some people disagreed with the Nazi party. This movie is brilliant and there is so much to say about it, i feel like this movie out of every other that we have watched has made the biggest impact on me.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was another movie that was really hard to watch, because it brought some of the pain of the Holocaust back to life. It followed the tragic story of a German family that was ripped apart. It was sad to watch the father be so completely absorbed by his "work", because he truly believed he was making the world a better place. Once the mother realized what he was really doing, she just deteriorated. The sister was so easily convinced that the Jews were evil and no longer felt any sympathy for them or their pain. It was awful to watch Pavel, a kind, intelligent, and innocent man, be dragged away to his death, because of one harmless mistake. It was hard to watch Bruno and Schmuel form a friendship, knowing that it was bound to end terribly. Watching children so easily overcome their differences just emphasizes the fact that the pain and death from the Holocaust was so, so unnecessary. It's absolutely crucial to never forget how easily people can be persuaded to do appalling things.
To me, this film had the most gravity of any non-documentary film we've watched this year. It was heavy and powerful, and yet it didn't have the cumbersome dramatization that I've felt with most of the movies we've watched. You get to know this boy, Bruno and feel his naivete and innocence. In not showing the camp throughout the film, other than what Bruno sees from the outside, the story makes no assumptions and is far more effective in its subtlety. Thus, the closing sequence is that more traumatizing and evocative. It was a truly powerful film unlike anything we've seen thus far.
so, ive seen this movie before. and when i first saw it when it came out. it was a rough movie to see. anytime seeing a child hurt or armed is extremely painful to watch. watching schmuel attack the food that bruno gave him made me so angry. the lies and the complete submission to the people in command was disgusting. when brunos mom found out her suspions about the extermination camp, she did NOTHING. but u could see that it was clearly bothering her. and what she choose to do was get away from it. and the line in the movie that completely made me sick was when bruno's sister said. it might be horrible for them but its not for us. that is the WORST comment i think anyone could posssilby say. it made me SO sO mad. espesially because i think alot of the evil horrible stuff that happens in the world ( and isnt stopped ) BECAUSE thats how people think. "well my lifes great so..." it was so...grr. i feel like the father was stupid, only thinking of his job. Because honestly. who would bring their KIDS not even a mile from an extermination camp where u can smell the burning FLESH of millions of people, close enough that bruno could run every day and no one wonder where he was during the time.i was glad though, how clearly the innocence and teh curruption was shown through the movie. the tutor, the sister, the soliders, daddy, the movies. when bruno apologized to schmuel for lying about being his friend and thse two complete stranger children still are friends and end up dying together. in a way i think that was the best ending. them dying together as equal..if that makes any sense. overall it was an incredible movie. extremely extremely sad...but the fact is. all of it could have been stopped if anyone ANYONE. grew balls to stnad for what is right. :)
This film was easily the most effective video we've watched all year. I can honestly say that I have never seen 20 students sit silently for a full three minutes at the conclusion of a film in class. Personally, I was extremely upset and depressed after watching the film. I could sense tragedy was on its way, and then it happened, in the matter of minutes. I felt a connection with Bruno and could sense his true, innocent juvenility, which the film clearly tried to establish. This made it even tougher to bear what happened to him at the end of the film. Watching how each member of the Commandant's family reacted to the realities of the situation was interesting. The daughter showed how easily the youth of Germany was brainwashed into believing what the Nazi's were doing was right. On the other hand, the mother really confused me. When Bruno was able to see the "farm" from his window, the mother said something to her husband indicating that she knew of the camp's existence. But, later on, when she discovered what the burning smell was, she was traumatized. She clearly was battling her own emotions and felt hopeless, choosing to leave the house and bring her children somewhere else. The father, who acted as the ruthless Commandant of the camp, was a true Nazi. He explained he was forced to lie to his wife, and betrayed his family throughout the film. I believe that his mother was murdered for showing disloyalty to the Nazi Party, a claim probably brought up by himself. He lost his son because of his commitment to the Nazi Party. That in itself makes no sense to me.
Later today, hours after viewing the film's conclusion, I thought about something. I noticed I was so disturbed about the murder of the two young boys in the film, yet did not even acknowledge the other hundreds of people in the gas chamber with them. I thought I would feel relieved if somehow the two boys were saved from their death, but in reality, that still meant hundreds of victims. The movie gave us an idea of the horrors of the Holocaust and concentration camps, but we must view the situation on a larger scale. Millions and millions of people lost loved ones during this time, and we are distraught over the death of two boys who we knew for merely two hours. I've tried putting myself into these people's shoes, but I know that it is not the same. The film allowed me to experience a small dosage of what it was like to lose someone I cared about to the gas chambers.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was a fantasic movie in that it protrayed an innocent German son of a Nazi Officer and his relationship with the boy in the concentraton camp, was a new look into the reality of of the camps and how well perserved they were from society. That is ultimatley what killed Brunno because everyone in the household had no idea except for the servants and Nazi soldiers. Brunno's dad lived a lie, when his mom found out she was deeply distraught. Brunno never learned the severity of the situation, that propaganda movie shown at their house kept Brunno even more sure that the Nazi's were doing good. Overall good movie and very sad.
i wasnt in class to see the end of it.
I think this movie is emotional and shows the tragedy of Holocaust with interesting point of view. This movie uses young boy, Bruno’s view. As a young child, he is very pure. He doesn’t understand what are happening around him and he is very curious and wants to know. I think that the Nazis Holocaust killed him. This was second time that I watched this movie. Even this is second time, this movie impacts me, how the Holocaust was sad and horrible event and how the Nazis were cruel and terrible.
This movie was very moving and interesting yet very hard to watch as some scenes were disturbing. I told my mom and sister about the movie and I found myself saying over and over again just how terrible it all was. Everything about the Holocaust was kept a secretive for so long. It amazed me how the wife didn't even fully understand the happenings in the camp. I was glad to see her opposition to such camps. Comparatively, it was awful to watch the husband defend himself and his job by saying they were fighting a war. It just seems so unreal how the Nazis could manipulate people's minds into believing that what they were doing was just. Bruno is reason that they have no right to treat Jews in such an inhumane way. He is an innocent, naive boy , and because of this he is a voice of reason: Bruno's family wants to keep the camp a secret from him. This proves the camps are an awful place because they cannot even tell Bruno the truth about what goes on in the "farm." In discussing the movie with my family, we talked about how sad and terrible Bruno's death was, but the dad deserved to feel such immense pain for his loss because before he wasn't able to understand what he was doing to hundreds of thousands of Jewish families.
After watching this film, immediate tears came to my eyes. Though, this film was very interesting, the fact that Bruno's father was unable to get to Bruno in time was very upsetting to watch. What amazed me mos tin this movie is how the wife had no idea what was going on at the concentration camp, even though she was married to a Nazi. The innocence of Bruno is what was the saddest part to watch. He just wanted a friend. It was so easy for Shule and Bruno to get along even though Shule was Jewish, so why couldn't the rest of the world get along? This film left me feelign very depressed and upset, but I was able to understand a different side of pain that was caused by the Holocaust.
After watching this film, immediate tears came to my eyes. Though, this film was very interesting, the fact that Bruno's father was unable to get to Bruno in time was very upsetting to watch. What amazed me mos tin this movie is how the wife had no idea what was going on at the concentration camp, even though she was married to a Nazi. The innocence of Bruno is what was the saddest part to watch. He just wanted a friend. It was so easy for Shule and Bruno to get along even though Shule was Jewish, so why couldn't the rest of the world get along? This film left me feelign very depressed and upset, but I was able to understand a different side of pain that was caused by the Holocaust.
I was absent this day.
I thought this was a great movie. It was a very entertaining one but also very say. I didn't feel very sorry for the father who ran the concentration camp. Even though he lost his son, it was his own fault. Millions of Jews were losing families in this concentration camps. He lost one boy. I felt bad for the mother because when she found out about what was happening she seemed very against it. But although this young boy was innocent I just think of how many millions of Jews were innocent and had much worse done to them rather than just death. It was sad to see a kid who was trying to help one of the young prisoners find his dad died but he was the son of the man enabling this systematic murder to happen. So in some way this is almost a type of justice.
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