Holocaust through the eyes of pair of 8 year old kids.

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2009)

Maybe because I only saw the movie last night I am thoroughly infatuated, but this could probably be one of the best movies about Holocaust.
Schindler's list showed unspeakable brutality, but it was so shocking and done from a safe distance that it almost seemed like a work of fiction. Shock numbed your senses.
In this movie, the film makers take us into a child's world and if you were 8 years old from either side of the fence, what did you think, what you saw, what you felt, what you believed! When you see the the world through the eyes of children, all your senses are enhanced, innocence is magnified, beauty crystallized.
Two kids in this movie, a son of a Nazi General, Bruno, and a Jewish kid in Concentration camp, Schmoel, they form a friendship but are separated by an electric fence, across which they sit and chat and even laugh and play games, and try to make sense of the world they live in and try to interpret events and actions, unable to comprehend the underlying evil. Their innocence is moving! Through their eyes we see the best in Humanity! The ending sneaks up on you. You don't expect it till the very last moment.
One could say that in the end there was justice, but this is one case where you would root against justice.
This movie is going to leave me with a permanent mark and I think I am better off for it.
Go see it!