I first fell in love with the book by John Boyne, than with the movie. Firstly, I don't consider this a children book, I just don't think they'd properly interpret it, and even if they would. they would be very emotionally moved.
It tells a story about an innocent boy whose father is a commandant in WW2 and his forbidden friendship with a young Jew just across the fence, on this farm, where all farmers are wearing pajamas all day. Throughout the whole film there have been a few sentences, so true, yet so discrete, because they were addressed to an 8 year old boy, the sentences that he doesn't understand, yet you do, and you pause the film and just sit in your empty room and think in complete silence and just think. You think about life, about death, your life, somebody else's life, about people in general, about all the harm they do and about all the misfortune and misery a human race is capable of causing.
The book's beautifully transferred to the movie screen, Herman did an amazing job interpreting Boyne's masterpiece, casting was right on spot, they couldn't have pick better-suiting actors for this.Vera Faminga was outstanding, with her scream only a mother can understand.
I noticed tears flowing down my cheeks about halfway across the movie, because it's a sad and touching story, one that cannot have a happy ending but makes you think about it for weeks after. The only faith we all share is death, where it doesn't matter if you're German, or white, or black, or Jewish. In death, we're all the same.
10/10
It tells a story about an innocent boy whose father is a commandant in WW2 and his forbidden friendship with a young Jew just across the fence, on this farm, where all farmers are wearing pajamas all day. Throughout the whole film there have been a few sentences, so true, yet so discrete, because they were addressed to an 8 year old boy, the sentences that he doesn't understand, yet you do, and you pause the film and just sit in your empty room and think in complete silence and just think. You think about life, about death, your life, somebody else's life, about people in general, about all the harm they do and about all the misfortune and misery a human race is capable of causing.
The book's beautifully transferred to the movie screen, Herman did an amazing job interpreting Boyne's masterpiece, casting was right on spot, they couldn't have pick better-suiting actors for this.Vera Faminga was outstanding, with her scream only a mother can understand.
I noticed tears flowing down my cheeks about halfway across the movie, because it's a sad and touching story, one that cannot have a happy ending but makes you think about it for weeks after. The only faith we all share is death, where it doesn't matter if you're German, or white, or black, or Jewish. In death, we're all the same.
10/10