Piece of garbage

Rating: 1/10 (7 May 2013)

This story is not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation.
I gave it a 1 on the 1-10 scale, but it deserves a ZERO.
Despite the book/ movie's intentions, the plot is highly improbable and gives credence to the defense that people did not, and could not, know what was happening within the death camps.
Those who read the book or view the movie may believe the camps weren't that bad if a boy could conduct a clandestine friendship with a Jewish captive of the same age, unaware of the constant presence of death by murder.
Bruno's innocence comes to stand for the willful refusal of all Germans (adults as well as children) to see what was going on under their noses.
If you're a Neo Nazi and want to ease your conscience, then you'll enjoy this propaganda.
If you like to be entertained with a fairy tail, there are many Disney movies that are more fun.
If you want to understand history and/or like fact in your reading and viewing material, best to skip this horrible movie as the waste of time and insult that it is.
Try Sophie's Choice, Sarah's Key, Playing for Time, or even Diary of a Young Girl.
This is the absolute worst WWII movie I have seen, and I have seen many.
I am insulted by this movie, and you should be, too.
Shame on Boyne and everyone involved with this disgusting failure.
Unlike others, I did not cry at the ending: I shook my head in disgust, then laughed a little wanting the movie to last a few more minutes- just to laugh at Bruno's family's response.
Pitiful waste of time, money, film, and the paper it took fro Boyle to write this trash in two days, which is the time that it took him to create this insult to intelligence.