The movie "Toyland" is set in Nazi Germany. It is a film that impresses with heavy content.
The sons of each family, Heinrich and David, are very close friends taking piano lessons together. However, David's house is Jewish and Heinrich is non-Jewish German. One morning, David's family is about to be taken to an internment camp. Heinrich, a young child, asks his mother Marianne why David's family has to go so soon. But Marianne can't tell her true story to her son Heinrich. And she tells her son that David's family is going to "Toyland". When the family goes, Heinrich says he wants to follow him and be with his best friend David. The lies she tells her son backfire.
This movie is cleverly made in chronological order. One is children's piano lessons. In parallel, is when David's family are taken by the Nazis. And it's the morning when the David family is finally taken away. I thought Marianne's decision to bring David back was great. Marianne takes David back to her home and he grows up with Heinrich as her own son.
I was impressed by the two old hands playing the piano, showing that David survived and developed his friendship with Heinrich.
"Toyland" tells us that war can make people crazy and deprive them of their normal lives.
The sons of each family, Heinrich and David, are very close friends taking piano lessons together. However, David's house is Jewish and Heinrich is non-Jewish German. One morning, David's family is about to be taken to an internment camp. Heinrich, a young child, asks his mother Marianne why David's family has to go so soon. But Marianne can't tell her true story to her son Heinrich. And she tells her son that David's family is going to "Toyland". When the family goes, Heinrich says he wants to follow him and be with his best friend David. The lies she tells her son backfire.
This movie is cleverly made in chronological order. One is children's piano lessons. In parallel, is when David's family are taken by the Nazis. And it's the morning when the David family is finally taken away. I thought Marianne's decision to bring David back was great. Marianne takes David back to her home and he grows up with Heinrich as her own son.
I was impressed by the two old hands playing the piano, showing that David survived and developed his friendship with Heinrich.
"Toyland" tells us that war can make people crazy and deprive them of their normal lives.