What an amazing film with really good actors. The film is not a disappointment not even after reading the book. The only thing to point fingers at is the language.. Why are they speaking English when this is supposed to be a German family living in Poland? Big mistake, it kinda destroys the picture it is trying to make upon Nazi Germany.
But this film is amazing and cruel at the same time. How do you tell a child what's going on and that Jews aren't real people when this little innocent child can't see any differences between Jews and the other people. And can you love your family unconditionally? Even though your father is doing things that are hard to accept would you still be able to love him? Bruno's mother has cold feet and doesn't want this separation of people and her reaction when she finds out the Jews are getting killed in this concentration camp shows that not everyone were convinced about how to treat those Hitler didn't like. It wasn't only Jews but simply just every non-arians, homosexuals and the ones who tried to be against him. And what about Gretel? Will she ever rip her Hitler posters down and burn them or will she cry when he shoots himself and will she continue his legacy? Most answers would be no, since Germany already after the SWW tried to avoid what had happened and they tried to burn the camps down to hide their tracks. New Nazism was illegal afterwards and it is a big tabu to just to and be sceptic towards another race or culture (I have seen a lot of examples in the past couple of months during this refugee debate).
The chamber scene in the end is very intense and you feel a kind of empathy you don't really understand yourself. Maybe because you can't imagine in anyway what it must feel like to be locked up like that, having tasted away your freedom, life and even name.. you are just a number, how cruel is that?
Enjoy your freedom!
Xoxo
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