Aerzia's Film Recommendation Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Sometimes, not often in my case, a film has a dramatic effect on me.
I recently watched one called " The boy in striped pyjamas " on television and it was such a film. It is about how the Nazi " Final Solution " to the Jewish question plays out through the eyes of two 9-y-o boys, one a German, the other a Jew. Compelling and beautifully made, witha mesmerising performance from the boy playing the central character, the German lad.
I commend it to all, not just Aerzia.

I've seen it. And quite honestly, I didn't like it. I felt it typified everything I find fault with in modern Holocaust films: namely, that they try too hard to be sad that they seem to miss the horror of the event. What's worse is that, unlike Schindler's List and the Pianist, this one doesn't even try to be accurate: For one thing, there were no 9-year-old boys at Auschwitz and that Bruno and Schmuel would have been electrocuted if they even tried to climb under any gaps that would have been there. And the fact that the nine-year-old son of a Nazi is so utterly ignorant of what a Jew even is completely manages to completely shatter any willing suspension of disbelief. It's like they just didn't care.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech put it best when he said: "[It] is not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation."

Sorry, bozo.