Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

 So I watched The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas today and this movie seriously is one of the saddest films I have ever seen, but I felt it was very maturely handled. Even though it's mainly about touchy subject with the holocaust and Nazi stuff going on, this movie blended it with the friendship element of the two boys (refer the poster above) very nicely put.

From this movie, I learned something new about the subject matter from the kids point of view, reminded myself how pure and innocent child can be at times. I expected tears but I didn't shed any while watching this movie, surprisingly. I do believe that this movie does not intent for an overflow emotion attraction but more to the focus of internal and external conflict of Bruno, the main character of this movie and forbidden friendship between Bruno and his mystery friend, Schmuel.

The great success of the film is its simplicity, it does not seek to over analyse but simply allows the development of the characters to tell the story. Beware of the ending as based on my experience I was very shock and having quite hard time to digest it, really caught me off guard.  Please, please see this film. It will remain with you for a long time.

Here's one of my favorite scene from the movie.

Now I need to find and read the book asap as I'm loving the movie version of it, I bet the book will definitely more stunning. 

I give this movie 8 / 10 

Thank you for reading my review and have a good day.