Guest Blogger: Alexis 1

So I choose the movie the boy in the striped pajamas this movie is about a young boy named Bruno who lived in Prewar Germany with his mom older sister and his father who is an SS commandant. But Bruno father moved his family to the country side where he got a job as command a prison camp. Bruno one day was board and went to go explore and what Bruno came a cross was a boy named Shmuel in striped pajamas behind an electrified fence but what Bruno doesn’t know what’s going on and he doesn’t understand why he can’t be friend with his new friend Shmuel. I personally think that both the boys played their roles very good in this film like when Asa Butterfield who played Bruno acted like he had no clue on what was going on around him and how Jack Scanlon who played Shmuel played the boy in the striped pajamas really good. Shmuel I think this motivation was having Bruno as a friend and also opening up Bruno eyes and seeing what’s really going on. Bruno I think he really had a motivation because he had the good life he had food he didn’t get beat but if I had to think of one was becoming friends with Shmuel. I think what the audience was supposed to take away from this film was that there really was a holocaust because people and a lot think or chose not to believe that this really did happen. I agree with the critics this movie from the Chicago sun times and rolling stone that this powerful impact on why and when it transfers the film point of view and how this power of this holocaust tale sneaks up and floors you. Yes I love this movie so much and if you need a really good cry I would say go see or rent this movie.