Surprisingly good

Rating: 8/10 (11 June 2009)

I am not a fan of war type movies but was asked to attend to keep a friend company. I have never read the book or heard of the movie before I went to see the film. My first notion before I attended cinema was I expected it to be boring. However I quickly changed my mind. Even though the actors were unknown to me I thought they were great. Throughout the movie I was quite fixated and near the end it became very intense. It was a very emotional movie and very quiet with a few wet eyes at the end. It was kind of disbelieving. The movie was about the holocaust during World War 2. It gave viewers an insight to other side of the story by way of how it might have been for the German people who had been brain washed into a certain way of thinking about the concentration camps because of manipulation by SSO propaganda. It did this through the innocent eyes of a child and how confused he felt about his friend when his father and teacher, the people he trusted talked about the evils of Jews. It demonstrated the intolerance towards the Jewish community and anyone that showed empathy towards them. However my critique is in reality things would have been much harsher in the camp and I don't believe the little boy in the camp would have ever got that close to the perimeter fence as it would have been very much guarded. I highly recommend the film.