The Boy In The Striped Pajamas (2008)

When I saw Asa Butterfield in Hugo trailors and interviews, I felt that this boy is really charming and I am so in love with his blue eyes & British accent. So, I decided to google his filmography and The Boy In The Striped Pajamas was the only movie of him I could find. I heard this film is quite good too but I'd better see it with my own eyes.

As I had never read a book by John Boyne before, therefore at first I thought The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is a coming of age film that our boy would learn from the cruelty of the war and become a man who sees the world understandably. And I was still thinking that it’s a happy coming of age story until the last 15 minutes of the movie that I suddenly realized what I had thought was wrong! The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is another movie that taught me to realize that “the reality is crueler than I thought, especially during the war time!!!”. The innocence of children didn’t lessen the cruelty of the war at all.

I felt so depressed at the end of the movie and hoped that what I had just seen wasn’t true. It was so heartbreaking!!! Those feelings are the same as what happen to me when I watched Schindler’s List. To me, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is another World War II movie that I love.

Believe it or not? I couldn’t stop thinking about this movie for weeks. It was really touching!