Inspiring and Heartbreaking Film

Rating: 10/10 (15 June 2013)

Young Bruno is forced to move with his family, and leave all his friends and the happy life he knew behind. His father is the commandant of a concentration camp near his knew home, and what Bruno thinks is simply a "farm". Bruno forms an unlikely friendship with Shmuel a child of the camp on the other side of the fence. This film had such a visceral effect on me emotionally that it took some time to get over it. In the end my whole body was racked with sobbing tears of true unimaginable sorrow and horror. I did not see the end coming at all, although I knew nothing good would come of Bruno crossing over into Shmuel's world. What the end result said to me was true humanity and human suffering knows no race, creed, or color. Cruel, incomprehensible death shown through the eyes of a child. Truly horrifying and chilling.