Beautiful Story, Inaccurate Facts

Rating: 7/10 (1 May 2018)

I got a chance to watch this movie not too long ago and I was pretty impressed. Coming from a Jewish family myself, I am quite interested in the holocaust and know a lot about it. The movie was very emotional and sweet and somewhat accurate except for a few things. First of all, children in the concentration camps were taken somewhere different, often put with their mothers, so Shmuel would not have been with his father at this time. Also, the concentration camps were much, much more secure than in the movie. They often had multiple electric barbed fences surrounding them, not just one. So in real life, it most likely wouldn't be possible for Bruno and Shmuel to have met and talked every day, because Bruno would have gotten caught, and besides, he wouldn't be able to dig under the fence, due to how many fences were there.. Another thing, Shmuel would not be allowed to go over and sit by the fence while he was supposed to be working. Many of the events that take place in this movie would have been unrealistic because of how restricted the Jews actually were. This movie shows them to have quite a bit more freedom than they did in the actual camps.
Besides those inaccuracies, the movie really did amaze me. I am impressed on how it showed the emotion of all those people being lost forever, but in a way, you see it through a child's eyes and how their innocence changes the whole picture. It was a beautiful movie and I would indeed watch it again for the amazing story, but I just wish that it was more accurate and portrayed more along the lines of what actually happened.