Is anyone else reduced to tears just by watching the trailer for the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas? Or am I just a hopeless sap?
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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I had not viewed the trailer yet, so I just looked it up. Wow. I don't cry in movies (or their trailers) but that is definitely going to be an emotional movie. And no, you are not a hopeless sap, not at all.
I saw the poster, apparently is based on a best-seller. To be honest, I didn't like the trailer...
I already the the ending, believe me, is not a happy one...
I thought it will be a good movie, but my dad disregarded the film as "another Hollywood attempt to cash in with the Holocaust"
I already the the ending, believe me, is not a happy one...
I thought it will be a good movie, but my dad disregarded the film as "another Hollywood attempt to cash in with the Holocaust"
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I didn't like the trailer, actually. I think it seems sappy and manipulative. Sort of pulling on the "ooh, boy in concentration camp" angle, which has been done more effectively in movies like Schindler's List. But I will refrain from judgment until I see it.
Watch Miracle at St. Anna -- it's really good.
Watch Miracle at St. Anna -- it's really good.
Yes. That was my point. I, in fact, thought the trailer was awful. Manipulative, yes, and sentimental. But realizing that didn't stop from bawling my eyes out. If the movie is the same only longer, I won't be seeing it, I'm afraid.
Of what I have read of the plot is not so much centered on the nazi kid's dad, but on the kid's perspective of the whole around.
I just saw the movie. Absolutely the saddest ending I have ever seen, and unexpected too. It's not meant to be like Schindler's List. It's from the perspective of a little boy who doesn't at all grasp what he's seeing. I would say it's more about the innocence of childhood than it is about concentration camps or even Nazi Germany. It makes a lot of statements, but based on the trailer it wasn't at all what I'd expected it to be.
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Saw the film; it was so-so in my opinion, some of the parts felt forced with awkward silences and the ending... it feels they pretended to make a grand finale so you could break in tears at the end... and failed, at least with me they failed. Perhaps this is what people refer when they mention a "hit and miss" film.
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I ended up seeing it anyway and it was depressing. And very slow. The boy irritated me -- gosh, when I was 8 I was NOT that naive and stupid -- and it was manipulative in many ways and the ending is depressing.
I read the book last year and it shot straight into my 'top three books of which I'd burn every copy if I had the chance' so I won't see the film on principle. EVER. I'd rather burn my eyes out.
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The beginning, the end and everything in between.
No, seriously. The mispronounciation of "Fuhrer" and "Auschwitz" which don't work in German or Polish, the stupidity of Bruno, the fact he wasn't a member of the Hitler Youth, the fact the fences would have been electrified, no young children would have survived in the camps so long unless they were of some use to the guards, the unlikelihood of the ending, the fact Bruno was allowed to disappear for hours at a time without being found out, him not knowing what his father did for a living, not realising Poland was a different country to Germany, the fact Hitler would never have visited a lowly Kommandant...need I go on?
No, seriously. The mispronounciation of "Fuhrer" and "Auschwitz" which don't work in German or Polish, the stupidity of Bruno, the fact he wasn't a member of the Hitler Youth, the fact the fences would have been electrified, no young children would have survived in the camps so long unless they were of some use to the guards, the unlikelihood of the ending, the fact Bruno was allowed to disappear for hours at a time without being found out, him not knowing what his father did for a living, not realising Poland was a different country to Germany, the fact Hitler would never have visited a lowly Kommandant...need I go on?
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I haven't read the book but like I said, I was irritated by the naivete and stupidity of Bruno... to a point I kind of didn't care. The only person I REALLY felt bad for in the film is his mother, and I almost wished that the story was told from HER perspective.
I class this abominable waste of trees with The Da Vinci Code and My Sister's Keeper.
Yeah. THAT bad.
Yeah. THAT bad.
I remember a Spanish film critic that was angry to the fact that "three warehouses and two barns were Auschwitz"