While shifting through channels last night, saw the last portion of a movie that had the theme of a nazi concentration camp during the WW II. As usual, the theme excited me and the last few mins of the film that I could catch on makes me frustrated as I could feel that it is a good one, but could neither make head nor tails. This morning, again while surfing for news, the movie came again and thankfully I missed only a few mins of the opening scene. I settled down to relax and enjoy the film. It is wonderfully made and by the time it is over, i still sat stuck in my sofa, reflecting…it was so powerful.
It is about life, as seen through the innocent eyes of an 8 year old boy…the only twist being that the boy is the son of a nazi officer commanding a concentration camp, who thought the camp to be just a “farm” where jews work and he befriended a kid his age when they met across the fence…. the ending was the most shaky part…when bruno the german kid put on a “Striped Pajama” that his friend schmuel brought, so that bruno can get inside the camp and search for schmuel’s dad….as luck would have it…they were rounded up, along with others and gassed in one of the chambers…just like thousands of other jews that were exterminated as part of Hitler’s Final Solution…
