The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was one of the most powerful, jaw-dropping movies that iv'e seen in a very long time. This film follows an innocent boy named Bruno who has a Nazi father. The family once located in Berlin moves to the country which is host to a nearby concentration camp. Bruno and the family have little knowledge of the horrors that are taking place in their backyard. Bruno, curious about "the farm" that can be seen from his bedroom window, attempts to escape their gated off house and venture into a world that couldn't be more different than his own. Bruno finds a boy the same age as him and eventually becomes good friends with him. He begins to learn that his friend, Leon can't escape his gated off area quite as easily. So the two of them have a plan to clone Bruno as a Jewish boy. Leon's dad is missing so Bruno decides to climb under the fence to help his friend, little to his knowledge what is past the fence is nothing short of a living hell.
Bruno is such an interesting character, he is completely conflicted on what is right, what is wrong and who is good and who is bad. He looks up to his dad and wants to believe that whatever he is doing is right, however his new friend gives him different ideas. His mother is livid at Bruno's Nazi father for the thousands of people he is mercilessly killing. There is also Bruno's sister who has been completely brainwashed by the Nazi ideals that have been engraved in their heads by their teacher, father and all of the Nazi solders that are constantly at the house. Bruno ends up helping his friend, still without knowing what he was actually getting himself into. Unfortunately the only way Bruno's father understands how many people he put through misery, torture and murder he has to lose a son in the process. The film set out to make you feel a certain way about what was happening during this time, and it did not fail.
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