Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, although a feature film, has many documentary elements and shows the effects of what a limited view to the world can bring you.  This film highlights how people's views of the world are so reliant on the experiences they live through and that no two people have the same perspective.  This idea is highlighted in this movie through two young boys, who grew up in the same time period, in similar geographic locations, but lived drastically different lives.  One boy was the son of a Nazi officer, and was told his whole life that his father was a good soldier that only helped people and did no harm.  But upon moving to a house on the same land as a concentration camp, the boy soon saw what soldiers like his father were really doing.  The other point of view is of a young boy, who was a jew inside the concentration camp near the house of the other young boy.  These two interact with each other from opposite sides of the fence and come to learn that they are not all that different from each other, despite what all the adults are telling them.  The young boys the innocence and naivety that was taken away from so many young people during this time by society and shows that the differences between us are really all in our heads.