Directed by Mark Herman

The boy in the striped pajamas is a very realistic movie that was directed by Mark Herman. The main characters were Asa Butterfield who plays an innocent eight-year-old boy named Bruno and Jack Scanlon who acts as Asas only Jew friend. This movie was released on November 26, 2008 after finished filming in July 2008. The estimate of the budget of the movie was 12,500,000.

There are three important parts of this movie that the director focused and inserted extra details. The first scene was when Bruno was having a conversation with Shmuel and then a soldier startled Bruno and when the soldier started questioning about Shmuel Bruno got nervous, and out of unintentional impulse denied Shmuel. In the book John Boyne was imputing possible friendship obstacles. Boyne claims in the film He put his face to the glass and saw what was out there his hands stayed by his sides because something made him feel very cold and unsafe. The window represents the loss of innocence of the eight-year-old boy. As he looks through it he understands thats he feels something shifting with in himself. The more he asks, the more he knows, and although he never quite understood everything, when he looks through the window the first time, Bruno is no longer to live in ignorance. The director showed us imagery and allegory for visualization.

The second scene from the film that was significant was when Bruno had a curiosity and started questioning the height of the fence surrounding the house. The reader says, There was a huge wire fence that ran along the length of the house the fence was very high, higher even than the house they were standing in The fence itself is to keep things separated. The specific fence around the house was more of a cage demanding orders and desires from the Nazis. It represents the gruesome things that came from the Holocaust. The fence isn't just about what's on the other side, though; it's also about the side Bruno lives on with his family. On their side, nobody asks questions within the camp, and instead Bruno and the rest of his family basically just keep on with their life, despite the plight of their neighbors. In this way, the fence draws our attention to the sharp contrast between the lives unfolding on each side of the fence. One is filled with freedom, and the other destroying innocent people one day at a time. When Bruno meets Shmuel he want to play, but he can’t making it not easy to form friendships with ethno religious lines under the Natzis command. When Bruno does cross the fence, incognito as a camp prisoner in order to help Shmuel look for his father, he is forced into a gas chamber along with his friend. In Auschwitz, crossing the fence can literally kill you.

The last scene that was crucial in the movie was when Boyne states Thats what they gave us when we got therethey took away our other clothes. The pajamas are a reminder of the different lifestyle between Bruno Natzi injustices against the Jewish and Shmuels Jewish identity. The striped pajamas represent the event and time when Shmuel and his people got kicked out of their homes and forced in the concentration camp. Clothes are a big part of self-impression and the kind of person you are. Forcing people to wear tattered uniforms or uncomfortable clothes personally attacks their identity. The blue striped pajamas also represents death, after all, Bruno decides to try his friends shoes on and he loses his own identity, yet his dies holding his friends hand with fear.

The movie was very informative about an important event in history, The Holocaust. It was also a great idea to produce it in the eyes of an innocent boy. It was a little inappropriate and offensive towards the Jewish when in a scene Bruno asks about his tag number and is a little envious about it because he thought it was a game. It was an overall, symbolic movie to show people hoe during the holocaust their was actually concentration camps. Even though it was started on January and ended until may of 12 years later it still partially exists in some small concentration camps in Europe.

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