Boy in the Striped Pajamas

This is a very good movie not really a film I wanted to see for a second time because of the heartbreak that it brings. Asa Butterfield is great in this film as he has the very difficult task of getting the audience to care and getting the audience emotionally invested. Vera Farmiga is also another stand out from this film as she brings a real gravitas to all of her films. Though this movie is not a documentary I think it was a good way to tie up our propaganda section because of how propaganda is worked into this narrative film. I like the way that this film shows the effects of propaganda especially on young and impressionable youth. The fact that the main character Bruno is mostly unaffected by the propaganda that is constantly being taught to him but his sister who is only a few years older is affected on an extreme level. The scene where the soldiers bring in the film equipment to project a film and Bruno looks over the door to watch it reminded me a lot of the films that we have seen in class. The film showed happy people jumping on the stones and this was just a lie just like the film that Kurt Gerron was making in Prisoner of Paradise.