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Die verlorene Zeit (2011)
Hauntingly beautiful
SPOILER ALERT
I now know that this beautiful film is based on a true story.
I had, also, run across the film on Netflix. Having not heard of the film, or its actors, I watched with no preconceptions.
All of the beauty of the film notwithstanding, I, being an American Jew, raised in the 1970s, must focus on Hannah's American family.
Our parents, grandparents, survivors in the Jewish community, did not speak of what they had experienced. They just did not tell us.
In contrast to Tomasz, who clearly, had told his daughter about Hannah and their experience.
It seemed, from the movie, that Tomasz was able to incorporte his past with his present far- better than Hannah, whose husband and daughter seemed oblivious to Hannah's traumatic past.
We know how the story played out in reality, and, if you don't, well, keep looking and you'll see.
I loved watching the movie, and I plan to watch again. I do wish, however, that we were able to, once we knew that Tomasz has survived, see more of his life in the seventies.
If you're reading about this film, and haven't seen it, please do so. It's a rare film that treats the subject with sensitivity and respect, without trivializing the persons involved, even the despicable Tomasz' mother.
Watch Magdelena very carefully. Her performance was nothing short of perfection.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Piece of garbage
This story is not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation.
I gave it a 1 on the 1-10 scale, but it deserves a ZERO.
Despite the book/ movie's intentions, the plot is highly improbable and gives credence to the defense that people did not, and could not, know what was happening within the death camps.
Those who read the book or view the movie may believe the camps weren't that bad if a boy could conduct a clandestine friendship with a Jewish captive of the same age, unaware of the constant presence of death by murder.
Bruno's innocence comes to stand for the willful refusal of all Germans (adults as well as children) to see what was going on under their noses.
If you're a Neo Nazi and want to ease your conscience, then you'll enjoy this propaganda.
If you like to be entertained with a fairy tail, there are many Disney movies that are more fun.
If you want to understand history and/or like fact in your reading and viewing material, best to skip this horrible movie as the waste of time and insult that it is.
Try Sophie's Choice, Sarah's Key, Playing for Time, or even Diary of a Young Girl.
This is the absolute worst WWII movie I have seen, and I have seen many.
I am insulted by this movie, and you should be, too.
Shame on Boyne and everyone involved with this disgusting failure.
Unlike others, I did not cry at the ending: I shook my head in disgust, then laughed a little wanting the movie to last a few more minutes- just to laugh at Bruno's family's response.
Pitiful waste of time, money, film, and the paper it took fro Boyle to write this trash in two days, which is the time that it took him to create this insult to intelligence.