Have you seen the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?
There are two ways an actor approaches an emotional scene. One is to make you cry and the other is to make the audience cry. Most actors try to make themselves cry. But this is not a good performance. When the actor himself does not cry, the formless feeling inside him becomes real in the person in front of him, and his breathing pattern matches the breathing pattern of the person in front of him, then the same feeling will come within the audience as will come. inside the actor. The same can also be said of the film. Some films are so simple in complexity that you connect with them. Some change your life. Some change your mind and others leave you shocked. One of those movies is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The ending of this movie is so sad that it gives you goosebumps. Man roots himself in a place. The ironies of life and the beauty of sadness are present in this film.
massacre of jews
This film is based on the novel titled ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’. This film, released in 2008, is a historical drama of the Holocaust. Its director is Mark Harmon. The film takes place against the backdrop of Nazi Germany. This is the story of World War II, where Hitler’s army captured Poland. The Jews were being massacred. They were killed by putting them in the gas chamber. In such a situation, an officer in Hitler’s army is promoted and transferred from Berlin to Poland. His family also moves with him: his daughter, his wife and his son Bruno.
The story of Bruno’s innocence!
This film is the story of Bruno’s innocence. He has left his friends in Berlin. He has no one to play with. All the people there are Khadus. He is looking for a friend. He cannot make friends with Jews. And all Germans are people who work in the army. There is a Jew in his house. He cooks. He had once been a doctor. But now before the doctor he is Jewish. Seeing his situation, she also asks her mother about him. That’s what they tell him, he’s different. Jews are not humans, they are monsters.
Is he a human being or a monster?
Later, this same demon makes a swing for the boy and bandages his wounds, but how do humans do this? When Bruno is asked what he wants to be, he answers that he wants to become an explorer. The teacher who teaches him tells him that no Jew in the world is good, if Bruno finds a good Jew, he will be called the greatest explorer in this world.
Bruno: a great explorer
Well, the real story of this movie begins when Bruno finds a Jewish camp behind his house. Don’t make the mistake of asking how to get it. After all, Bruno is an explorer. Jews are kept in very poor conditions in these camps. He wears prison clothes. The physique is as if one has been hungry for many years. The hair is torn from their heads. It is here that Bruno meets a boy. His name is Shmuel and he is a good Jew. That means Bruno found a good Jew and is now the best explorer in the world.
There is another world beyond the stars.
Well, Bruno can’t enter the camp. There are barbed wires between him and that Jewish boy. As if he were drawing a line between them. There is another world beyond the stars and another world beyond the stars. There is an excellent juxtaposition in the film. For example, in Parasites we saw that during the rains, there is chaos in a poor neighborhood and on the other hand, a rich boy sets up camp and enjoys the outdoors. Similarly, imagine the scene in this movie, when Bruno steals a cake from his house and brings it to Samuel. At that moment, you see that Jewish child eating, you will know what hunger and the desire to achieve something is like!
The climax of this movie is probably the saddest ending of any movie. Like ‘The Pianist’. If you haven’t seen The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and plan to watch the movie after watching this video, don’t continue. Well, the biggest spoiler of the last few minutes is yet to come. Personally, I think this is the saddest ending in cinema. Let us tell you how.
sad ending
An army officer who kills Jews. Your country hates Jews. It is part of a system that considers Jews to be monsters. He commits genocide and also believes in it. Your son doesn’t know all this. He sees humans even in Jews. He is friends with a Jewish boy. When he learns that the Jewish boy’s father has disappeared, he enters the camp under the stars to look for him. This is the day when the Jews will be murdered by putting them in gas chambers. As Bruno sneaks into the countryside in disguise, he is also thrown into the gas chamber. The surprising thing is that during this time Bruno continues to hold the Jewish boy’s hand. The gas chamber doors are closed. While searching for him, Bruno’s mother and sister explore the camp for the first time. Father is also with me. The three Nazis cry, the boy stands with a Jew holding hands in the gas chamber. What happens after this, you can understand yourself.
film criticism
Well, this ending was also highly criticized. Many historians claim that the facts have been altered. Each one had their own arguments. It was also said that at the end, the people who tortured the Jews appeared crying. Create sympathy towards criminals. Questions also arose about how Bruno’s mother did not know that Jews were being murdered. While this was well known in Germany at that time. Anyway you raise the question. The end of the movie is going to give you goosebumps.
Let’s conclude with an interesting fact. You’ve seen the boy playing the role of Bruno growing up in the Netflix series ‘Sex Education’.
Let’s go now. Rest, tell me, according to you, what is the movie with the saddest ending in this world?
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