Shallow in a huge event

Rating: 5/10 (24 January 2009)

I was a bit suspicious of this movie, considering the cuddly, 'artistic' title, but you never know. Well, unfortunately i guess i did.
The movie is about a German family of which the father is commander in a concentration camp. His son secretly gets to be friends with a Jewish boy.
And thats all the depth you will find in this story. There is no personal change, no evolving, no philosophical findings, no lessons to be learnt and it doesn't drag you into the main event of the movie, the end, where you should be in tears, i guess. I honestly didn't feel bad for the boy, which indicates something is very wrong with this movie.
So it's just a bad story, trying to score on a major recent historical event. Sorry, no cigar.
It's not utterly boring and the acting is fair, but the story itself is apart from rather unbelievable, shallow as a turd on route 66.
If you want to see an excellent movie about the same theme, go see 'The Reader'