Relevant historical fiction and a shocking end enabled this flick to make its mark on my family, as I’m sure it did for many others. This movie is currently available on Netflix and somehow I happened on it, without any idea how good it might be. It stayed in the queue for weeks before we watched it, and afterwards I wondered what rock I was living under for me not to hear about this movie.
In a nutshell, Striped Pajamas is about a friendship between a young Jewish boy who held in a prison camp in the isolated German countryside, and the son of the Camp’s supervising officer. The bond grows between the boys unbeknownst to the rest of the world and the outcome of their desire to be together profoundly affects the otherwise unreachable German aristocratic family.
The genius of this story is that it is told through the eyes of a child, which allows the audience to hear it without the encumbrance of the money, foreign affairs or politics of the Jewish persecutions that occurred within Nazi Germany during the first half of the twentieth century. Still, don’t let them watch it alone.
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