Holocaust And The Boy In The Striped Pajamas | Cine Talk

The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is an interesting movie. Like the Diary Of Annie Frank, its speaks about gore of holocaust from a child's perspective. It’s a well-made sensible movie which talks about a system that was glorified by a section of people but in reality was rotten to the core. Maybe some people blindly supported it because they selectively closed their eyes to the darker face of reality in aspiration of a better world, though failed to realized that society cannot stand on corpse of humanity.

There is a kid from a German family who doesn't understand a dime about anti-Semitism. He has a generous opinion about Jews which stem from the Jews present around him. As many kids of that era were made to believe, he also feels that concentration camp are nothing more than special camps for Jews where they live a good life. However, when he meets a kid across the fence, some of his beliefs are shattered. The way story unfolds in due course tells how dangerous individual's perception can be and how differently people react when there dear ones become a victim of such perception... intentionally or incidentally.

The movie affects you as a person. It doesn't try to teach you history. It just tries to tell you about people of that era. Skeptics who found this movie extremely biased should question their ethics. Holocaust is a blot on the face of the earth and nothing can erase it completely. Little efforts trying to make us realize how our prejudices can be dangerous might make this world a better place.

Based on conversation between Sujoy Ghosh and Rashmi Subrahmanya