Just thinking ...
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“Boy in the Striped Pajamas” I just got home from the movie theater, and I am in shock. I'd read the book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a couple weeks ago, when it was reviewed in the paper. It's a fairly horrifying book, powerful, extremely well done. At the end, after the book club questions, is an author interview, which is enthralling. So I was fascinated by the book, both because of its topic and because I was analyzing the author's approach and style.
Um, am I ahead of myself here? Perhaps you haven't heard of the book and movie ... It's a short book, written from the point of view of an eight-year-old boy whose daddy is commandant of Auschwitz. The child has no understanding of what's going on at the "farm" he can see from his window. He makes friends, through the fence, with a child his own age, a child wearing what Bruno perceives as pajamas. The end ... well, I won't tell you the end. I will say that it's not just what happens to Bruno, and his friend, that had such an impact on me.
I wasn't sure how they could do a movie; it would be hard to keep the child's point of view. And the movie is different from the book, but true to it. Darker. Just ... just amazing. Don't miss it. Don't take pre-high school kids, either. It's hard to watch, hard to think about.
The author said, in the interview, that this is more than history. Our world is doing it again, in Darfur ... in Sudan ... in so many places! Dear Lord, loving Father, protect us, protect Your children!
Don't miss it.
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