The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

A truly heartbreaking film. Set during the war the film shows a side to war that hasn't really ever been discussed in film. It doesn't focus on the fighting, or on people loosing their family and friends, it doesn't dwell on evacuation or what the working life was about it. It focusses on friendship and separation. Bruno is an 8 year old boy who's dad is a commander of a Nazi concentration camp, but one day Bruno discovers the fence which seperates his world and the world of a Jewish boy of his age captured in the concentration camp. They develop a friendship and a bond and start to see each other everyday. The film shows childhood innosense, when people make friends with anyone, no matter what colour or religion they are, when it doesn't matter what background someone has or what their parents work as. Although this film didn't have a happy ending, it still makes people think back to how horrible the hallocaust was, when people where punished just for being Jewish. It also made people think back on that childhood innocence and probably made them wish that it never went away, because its prejudice and racism and discrimination that makes the world a bad place!