This is the story of Bruno – a nine-year-old boy who has to leave his beloved home – with five floors and a banister that you can slide down – to live in a house with only three floors in a place called Out-With. This is the story of Bruno – a nine-year-old-boy who doesn’t understand why he can’t go out ot play with the little boys who appear at the bottom of his garden. This is the story of Bruno – a nine-year-old-boy who goes out to explore one day and sees ‘a dot in the distance become a speck and that spot becomes a blob and that becomes a figure and that in turn becomes a boy in striped pyjamas.’
This is a story about a time in history most of us would like to forget – but that we should be forced to remember – and the terrible things that can happen when people keep secrets from each other…
The book is now making its way to the big screen – with a UK release date of September 12, 2008. Take a look at the trailer – I think they may do the book justice – though I’ll be sure to take a box of tissues if I go to watch it!
The innocence of childhood savagely collides with the Holocaust in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Bruno (Asa Butterfield) knows that his father is a soldier and that they have to move to a new house in the country... a house near what he thinks is a farm. But his father isn't just a soldier; he's a high-ranking officer in Hitler's elite SS troops who's just been placed in command of Auschwitz. As Bruno explores the woods around the house, he discovers the concentration camp's perimeter fence. On the other side sits a boy his own age, with whom Bruno strikes up a friendship--a friendship that will have tragic consequences. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is most powerful in the details: The casual brutality of a Nazi lieutenant; the uncomfortable juxtaposition of the family's domestic life with glimpses of the treatment of the imprisoned Jews; a ghastly propaganda film suggesting that life at Auschwitz was like a holiday. But more than anything else, Butterfield's performance makes this film compelling. The young actor perfectly conveys Bruno's limited perspective even as the film carefully unveils the larger, darker reality. The movie's ending will undoubtedly spark arguments, but only because of the emotional complexity of what happens--The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is made with great skill and compassion. Also featuring David Thewlis (Naked) and Vera Farmiga (The Departed) as Bruno's parents. --Bret Fetzer
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A very good, thought-provoking film.
Review Date: February 7, 2009
Reviewer: Sophia Petrillo, NC, USA
After I read the novel by John Boyne and heard the news that a movie adaption was currently in theatres, I was slightly scared that the film would be too extreme and dramatic for me, because I don't do well at all with films that scare me or make me sad- and thinking about the plot of the book, I knew watching a movie version would tear me to pieces.
But, as it happened, my school went on a field trip to see the movie a few weeks after I finished the book, and I ended up having to watch the whole movie through and write a report comparing and contrasting it from the novel. And guess what?- I sobbed like a baby in front of all my friends.
Although the last parts of the movie are very sad and deeply patronizing, it is overall a very good adaption of the book that caused so much controversy among young readers like me(I'm 15 by the way).
Excellent Movie
Review Date: February 16, 2009
Reviewer: Eli Houston, Alabama
I know that many movie critics bombed this movie, but you really need to decide for yourself.
I thought this movie was very well made, the acting was excellent, and the story was very intriguing. I have read the book the movie is based from, and the movie follows the book very closely.
I have to say my favorite part of the movie is the music - the soundtrack is amazing! It was made by the same composer that did the soundtrack for Titanic and Braveheart, to name a few.
Be prepared for a shocking ending - some don't like it, but I did. I think it's a realistic approach to the Holocaust - not every story has a happy ending.
Appalling
Review Date: July 6, 2009
Reviewer: Leonidas, Kentucky
Not the movie, it is a beautiful work of gut-wrenching horror. I wept like a baby and I am a 62 year-old man. What is appalling to me is reading all of the one-star reviews. I now see how the holocaust (shoah) could have taken place, all that is necessary is for a nation to be composed of and ruled by people with no feelings, bereft of human compassion and sensitivity, just like several of the reviewers here.
WOW, you might be right. I was afraid that a movie studio wouldn’t do the book justice, but the trailer looks really good. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find anything on the internet as to when the movie will be release here in the US.
This has been on my TBR list for several months. Now that I know there is a movie coming out I need to bump it up so I can read the book first. It looks so good.
I have not read the book, nor do I know if I am able, because books are usually more powerful than the movies, and the movie killed me. If you are in the mood to have your heart broke into tiny pieces, and the sick discomfort of how disgusting the nazis treated the jews, then watch this movie. Those times should never be forgotten or overlooked, because us humans are capable of far more unspeakable horrors, and hardenings of our hearts, than most of us care to remember in this rat race we call present day.
heyy x saw the film at school many people saiod CRAP but i thought the films ending was let off slightly but the book and film where almost identical it was very emotional and i cried buckets. the ending was sad but the whole film was great and the end just ended is wasnt really the day to day film witha happy ending but overall wow amazing terrific
When i first heard i was supposed to read this book for the summer, i thought it was gonna be boring and stupid. but i was wrong. this book turned out to be a very interesting novel mainly because you had to figure it out by yourself. it made me want to read more of books like this. so i would reccommend this book to anyone who loves figuring out stuff
why are people so stupid to think their better than others. if the league of nations had stopped hitler than the holocaust would never have happend. im only a 15 year old girl (as of september of 2009) but i think that i would make a better leader and would make this world better because everyone deserves to be happy and to live out their life however they want.
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WOW, you might be right. I was afraid that a movie studio wouldn’t do the book justice, but the trailer looks really good. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find anything on the internet as to when the movie will be release here in the US.
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I am not sure if I am going to be able to watch this movie, because I am not sure how they can do the ending? The trailer does look good though.
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This has been on my TBR list for several months. Now that I know there is a movie coming out I need to bump it up so I can read the book first. It looks so good.
@Stephanie – it does look good doesn’t it – I couldn’t find a US release date either! Hopefully they will announce it soon.
@Marg – the ending has me worried too
@Shana – bump that book up quick! It’s a really short read – but a very powerful one
The trailer is wonderful! Now I really can’t wait to watch the movie! Yeah, it’ll surely be quite an emotional watch for me.
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I have not read the book, nor do I know if I am able, because books are usually more powerful than the movies, and the movie killed me. If you are in the mood to have your heart broke into tiny pieces, and the sick discomfort of how disgusting the nazis treated the jews, then watch this movie. Those times should never be forgotten or overlooked, because us humans are capable of far more unspeakable horrors, and hardenings of our hearts, than most of us care to remember in this rat race we call present day.
I just watched this movie last night… it was amazing!!!!!! So sad!
heyy x saw the film at school many people saiod CRAP but i thought the films ending was let off slightly but the book and film where almost identical it was very emotional and i cried buckets. the ending was sad but the whole film was great and the end just ended is wasnt really the day to day film witha happy ending but overall wow amazing terrific
When i first heard i was supposed to read this book for the summer, i thought it was gonna be boring and stupid. but i was wrong. this book turned out to be a very interesting novel mainly because you had to figure it out by yourself. it made me want to read more of books like this. so i would reccommend this book to anyone who loves figuring out stuff
why are people so stupid to think their better than others. if the league of nations had stopped hitler than the holocaust would never have happend. im only a 15 year old girl (as of september of 2009) but i think that i would make a better leader and would make this world better because everyone deserves to be happy and to live out their life however they want.