Heart touching tale of holocaust

Rating: 9/10 (11 February 2016)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ,explores the range of human emotions with the simplicity of an eight year old child. Set in the Holocaust period,Bruno is the son of LT commander in-charge of a concentration camp.left alone in a country side he befriends a Jew boy across the fence of the Concentration camp. He doesn't understand that this friendship is forbidden.Neither does he understand if his father was doing the right thing.Yet he wants to be proud of his father.The scene where he had to let his friend down is heartbreaking,the guilt of an 8 year old perfectly depicted by Bruno. When he wants to make up for it by helping Schmule find his papa,you are relieved to see that humanity has not died in the darkest age. When the movie ended it left me with a hole inside not because of the sad climax but the fact that what a 8 year old child could see and understand ,those adults couldn't.The message is inherent and no philosophical analysis is needed.What you need to do the right thing is to think like a child. Growing up is a trap,truly.