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The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas Film Analysis

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Despite that 11 million people died in the Holocaust, many people survived as well. It is the survivors who have helped us truly understand what really happened in the concentration camps in the Second World War. However, how can we know for sure that we know the whole truth? The survivors are not the same people and therefore have different perspectives of what really happened and have experienced different events. Therefore different narration helps us get closer to the truth about the concentration camps, by emphasizing the tragedy from different angles that gives us a wider perspective. According to Kitty Hart- Moxon the concentration camps were so bad that most of survivors committed suicide because they couldn’t handle the nightmares …show more content…

This is because the story is shown through a German boy, the son of a Nazi commandant, who thinks that it is just a farm. Therefore from this type of source we get a completely different perspective of tragedy. Bruno is still a child who makes his innocence come in the way, despite that he is living next to a death camp. One day Bruno sets off to explore the farm where he gets friends with a concentration camp inmate. We get a lot of outside information on how the German solders lied about the conditions in the concentration camps and how they acted open the orders from Hitler. The advantage with movies is that you get a full image of how it possible was; your brain can’t mess with the truth. You get to see visual images on how people reacted and acted. Most movies can control you thoughts, by having soundtracks and biases because you only get one point of view. In this case you get to only see how the boy cooped with the situation. Most people might say that movies are easier to understand, because there is more expression and it only gives you the most important information. Therefore the advantages of this type of source is that you get the visual facts about the event and your brain can’t mess with the

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