The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
 

"Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences. "

I saw this BBC movie last night and it is EXCELLENT.

The ending is sudden, shocking and sad. (the theatre was dead quiet at the end).
Has anyone else heard of or seen this movie?

http://www.boyinthestripedpajamas.com/

Is it a movie that makes you cry?

I wanna see the movie, but not if it's gonna make me cry.

It was a good book!

This is on my "must see" list. I was intrigued by the trailers/commercials for it. Looks like a great story.

Yes, it will make you cry. Bring Kleenex for the end.

The kid who plays "Bruno" (the German kid) is excellent. He is so ignorant, naive and innocent; it's endearing and also frustrating. Oh, and the role of the father (who is a Nazi Commandant) is the same actor who played Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter movies.

I'd really like to see this movie, now it's a matter of dragging my boyfriend to go see it with me.

It's not really a date movie. I actually saw it alone.

I'd say from the trailer it's one of those movies you know you'll only see once. The Constant Gardener & Hotel Rwanda are on that list for me.

I saw it last week. I loved it and the entire theater was silent and crying (including me). I lost it during the dinner party scene. :( So wrong on every possible human level.
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I forgot to add I LOVED the cinematography! Just beautiful!!


Ahhhhh...THAT's why he looked so familiar!

I saw it alone also. I'm glad I did. I waited until everyone had left before I got up to leave. I wear contacts and when I got to the ladies room, my eyes were bloodshot! I didn't feel to silly though because all the other women in there were crying too :) We all chuckled at each other. We chatted about when we started tearing up and when we lost it. It was a good moment.

I was just getting ready to ask the same thing! I'm already too emotional over all these military moms and dads surprising their kids at school and other tear-jerking moments (like the wonderful movie "Blizzard" the other night). I'm starting to feel like a crybaby. I don't want to cry anymore, LOL.

Yeah, the part where Pavel gets beaten off-camera was so terrible and awful. I think a few people in the theatre also gasped when Bruno told the lie about not knowing Shmuel. I love it that the movie has a lot of depth to it; themes about friendship, betrayal, redemption, etc.

I stayed until the end of the credits and it looks like the movie was filmed in Hungary. I plan to read the book very soon; the movie doesn't really address the location clearly, but I believe that in the book, the camp is actually supposed to be Auschwitz in Poland.

I've never gone to the movies alone, I don't think it's really my thing. That's OK if it's not a date movie, I just don't think any of my girlfriends would be interested in seeing it with me. Maybe I'll go with my mom when I'm home for Xmas.

I got upset at that too. Bruno didn't fully understand the consequences of his action of denial.

Okay, are y'all spoiling the movie now or am I still good?

You're still good! Go see it tonight...

I'm tired. Maybe next week!

You should also go see it, also because it has Rupert Friend in it (who is a pretty hot guy & a sometime boyfriend of Keira Knightly). However, he plays a volatile, violent SS officer in the movie. If you can separate the two, he is physically very easy on the eyes!

The camp is supposed to be Auschwitz. I'm reading the book right now and Bruno calls it "out-with". That's how he hears it (so he calls it that). I really want to see it, I'll probably see it this week since I'm on winter break. But knowing that I'm going to cry, I have to be in the mood, if that makes sense.

The book is good, so far, it is different because it is told from Bruno's POV and he see's the world so differently because he is only 9 (in the book). It is somewhat refreshing that WW2 and the Holocaust is being told from an "innocent" (he's a child) person's POV.

I really want to see it now.

I saw it and thought it was great. No, I probably won't watch it again for a while - mostly because it is extremely intense. Hard to explain, but I felt drained after I saw it.

So did I. I won't watch it again for a while either.

Yes, I read the book a week after seeing the movie. In the book, he is 9 and in the movie he is 8.

In some ways, the manner in which the book is written is similar to that book of George Orwell's "Animal Farm", in that it can be read on a very basic, "face value" sort of way, and then also on a deeper layered-level sort of way.

Interesting way to put it. I'll have to pick up the book.

It's a short read and can be read in 1 or 2 sittings. In the "movie tie-in" version that I bought (the cover has a photo from the movie on the cover), they have little discussion questions at the back also.

For example, Bruno hears and pronounces the "Auschwitz" camp as "Out-With". But this term "out-with" is a (non-funny) pun as well, as in "Out with certain groups of people who exist in society". ("Out-with"/Auschwitz is never expressly mentioned nor referred to in the movie.).

I still think of this movie...the story haunts me, I guess you could say.

I actually just got permission to have my students (high school) read the book. I printed off a discussion guide that the website actually offers for instructors. My AP asked if I had read it (which I have). I told him that the story was told from a childs POV and while the topics, while sensative, can be discussed in a classroom setting. Plus, I told him that I get the History tie in (which schools are so into the "cross-curricular" tie in's). I'm thrilled, mainly because I love the historical aspect of the novel, I also love the moral aspect of the novel.

I am hoping to be able to see the movie this weekend. I was actually right by the valley art theater this past Sunday (my parents and I were testing out the new light rail), but because I was with my parents, I wasn't able to stop and see it. My dad was like "why is it only here?". I told him it was an "artsy" movie with limited release (which I'm sure is actually somewhat true).

Ok, so since the Virgin store in San Fran is closing, I bought the movie since it was on sale. It'll still be a while before I can watch it again.

I bought the movie when it was released. I really enjoyed it, but like Fawn Liebowitz said, I felt drained after watching it. I was bawling like a big old baby at the end of the movie. I have to say that I appreciate that they followed the book pretty darn closely. That's always a bonus to me.