In 2006, John Boyne wrote a world bestseller. When the book entered the Polish market, the publisher boasted on the cover that 11 million copies had already been sold. Two years later, the screening was premiered – the screenwriter and director was Mark Herman, and in the cast were, among others Vera Farmiga and Dawid Thewlis. The main roles, however, were played by children – Asa Butterfield, which later brought popularity, among others Netflix series “Sex Education”as well as Jack Scanlon. It was the latter who played the title role of “a boy in striped pajamas”. And although the film is well rated, To this day, it is controversial.
What is the movie “Boy in striped pajamas” about?
During World War II, 8-year-old Bruno with his family He leaves Berlin and a housing estate near the concentration campwhere his father (David Thewlis) became a commander. Unhappy and lonely, one day he marries his home and meets his peer, a Jewish boy. Although they are separated by the camp fence from the barbed wire, the boys establish forbidden friendship, unaware of the true character of their surroundings. Bruno, however, will understand the situation better over time and ask himself, for example, the question: is my father a good man?
It’s hard not to move by watching “a boy in striped pajamas”, many viewers will overpay a large part of the film. “Two fantastic boys in the main roles of ASA Butterfield and Jack Scanlon have a whole film. The other actors are only a background for them, and The shocking end scene raises a conclusion that it is difficult to protect themselves that the bad adults have been punished” – wrote in the review Dorota Kostrzewa from Filmweb. The film is marked by TVP1, which will show him on February 4, 2025 TRACK at 21:05as allowed from 12 years – the director also spoke in interviews, as the journalist notes that he would like “a boy in striped pajamas” to get to school.
An important history lesson or hypocrisy?
Another journalist (Keith Garlington) writes about the production that he asked some important questions about war, family and morality. “It also gives us an insight into part of the history of our world, which is still difficult to look at, but one should count with it,” he notes. The only question is whether the “boy in striped pajamas” gives insight into history? Boyne’s book was already there criticized for causing damage to the Holocaust education. Protested, among others Museum in Auschwitz.
In the article on the website of the Jewish parenting Kveller website from 2022, it can be that the story of the book, as well as film adaptation, falsely presents the family of the SS commander as an ignorant towards the Holocaust and anti -Semitism. “Undoubtedly Bruno and his family were fully aware of the Holocaust. Brun, like all German children at the time, hatred of Jews was instilled at school – especially since his father was a high -ranking Nazi. Determining all civilians as ‘unconscious’ releases them due to all faultwhile in fact the majority stood on the side and looked. “
Similar Notes appear towards the entire literary genre, which is “Holo Polo”as well as film and television productions. One of the last examples is the storm around the screening of “tattoo artist from Auschwitz”. . The author of “Boy in striped pajamas”, however, opposes criticism their novels, claiming that people should not read fiction if they are looking for facts. – I listened to many critics, accepted them [ich słowa -red.] I understand some, I do not understand some, but I emphasize that this novel is a fairy tale subtitle, a fictitious song with a moral in the center – last year on the BBC radio.
Source: Gazeta
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