From slapstick comedy to drama

Rating: 8/10 (12 August 2016)

I watched this movie recently and I had high expectations, due to the fact that I had heard that this movie is one of the best ever made. So, naturally I expected to see a dark drama focusing on the Nazis' cruelty. But instead I was watching for a big part of the movie ,the first part, a comedy which was basically slapstick which I found obnoxious. Highly unrealistic scenarios and cringey dialogues. But at the second part of the movie things changed. Although it had still comedic elements it started to feel like a drama. The ending was also heartbreaking. This movie made me feel like I was in a concentration camp myself, and the main death was extremely sad. Although the movie was generally unrealistic (in the second part the father and son had way too much liberties in the camp, and the kid definitely would have been spotted in real life), and the main death totally could have been averted, it was one of the few movies which made me to such extent disgusted with the Nazis' crimes.