Very Impressed

Rating: 8/10 (29 September 2012)

I was very impressed with how this movie was done, leaving the movie to be told almost exclusively from an 8-year old boys perspective. I say almost because sometimes the the 8-year old boy observes something that he does not fully comprehend at first, but the audience would understand immediately (by just seeing it).
The acting of both young boys is superb, and their chemistry for the film was also superb.
As all good Holocaust movies are, this movie does pull at your heart strings. There is no question about that.
I do believe that Bruno (the main character) looses a lot of his innocence (and naiveté) as the movie goes on. However, my personal opinion is (people may interpret this differently, by the end of the film): I think Bruno does not loose all innocence, and still does not fully understand what kind of life Shmuel lives or why Shmuel lives there (and, Shmuel can't really explain it either, also begin just a child himself). He doesn't seem to understand what he got himself into, at the end of the film.