Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - Film Review

 

Dylan Thompson

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a powerful story of innocence during the Second World War, which focuses on the story of two eight-year-old boys who meet in the unfortunate settings around a Nazi concentration camp.

One of the eight-year-old boys is the son of the camp's Commandant, and the other eight-year-old boy is a Jewish boy who is a prisoner inside the concentration camp.

The camp's son son sees people in striped pyjamas and wonders why they wear such clothing and in one scene wonders why one prisoner was a doctor and now peels potatoes in his house.

The camp's son was doing doing what young boys do and went exploring and found the concentration camp and found the Jewish boy hiding behind rubble and that is where their friendship begins.

 

But as time goes on their friendship and their innocence led to some dire consequences and shakes the whole ideology of Nazism and the persecution and murder of others such as Jews, Catholics, Gays, Political Prisoners, and other who were deemed unworthy or inferior to Nazism.

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is available @HMV