The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

[ASUADPi]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

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.

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.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by ASUADPi

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). .....

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).....

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.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

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.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

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.

[ASUADPi]

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).