Outstanding - A Must See.December 22, 2008 A J Taylor(Cambridge, United Kingdom) 11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This film is outstanding, it is simple, compelling and moving. I saw this at the cinema in the summer and I recommend it to everyone out there. I will be showing it to my students in the last week of term in July after they have studied the Holocaust as it makes a very complex issue easy to access for children and is an excellent film.
A look into the 'other side'December 2, 2008 Cameron and Thatcher's Love Child(UK) 29 out of 30 found this review helpful
After watching 15 minutes of this film I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. My genre is usually horror, I do also enjoy war movie's from any 20st century war, and this didn't seem to be fitting in too well.
However, the further into the movie I got, the more interested I became.
The movie tells a story of an 8 year old son of a Nazi Concentration Camp Commandant. It shows the war through his young eyes, whilst reminding the viewer of the true atrocities of WW2.
The boy, Bruno, befriends another 8 year old boy in a concentration camp, and the story shows their relationship develop.
There are numerous scenes in this movie which will upset the viewer, scenes of violence towards the Jewish prisoners etc Another interesting side of the movie is that it of course shows how the German families felt about the war, it shows that not all of them, including some soldiers, agreed with the Nazi regime yet had no choice.
All in all this movie gets 5 stars due to a clever storyline, and an ending that you will never forget, an ending that will leave the theater in silence, and make others cry, it certainly did when I saw it in the movie theater.
Definitely worth going to see, I shall be buying it as soon as it is released.
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