Total Rubbish

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2011)

Having read so many reviews regarding this film I was hoping for a masterpiece such as Schindler's List. I was always concerned however about the idea that a German boy could play with a Jewish prisoner through the external camp wire.It is just so absurd. Firstly is the camp an Extermination, Concentration or Labour Camp. If its an Extermination camp then the children, the sick and elderly would have been gassed within hours of arrival. and yet the ending obviously points to it being just so. We are meant to believe that this little Jewish boy,escapes an initial selection, and can spend his day sitting by the external fence - presumably not electrified, and only at the end of his shift runs back with an empty wheelbarrow. Its just so absurd for anyone who knows anything about The Holocaust.
The little Jewish boy doesn't mention to his German friend that they live in fear of beatings, torture etc.
The wife knows nothing about the Final Solution, nor the position her husband will be taking up.
The whole premise is just too absurd for words. And to those reviewers saying that the ending was so emotional, it was just so predictable. Yet we are meant to feel such sadness for one aryan death compared to millions of Jewish deaths...
Total nonsense as a film and a waste of 90 mins