There are two ways for an actor to approach an emotional scene. One is to make yourself cry and the other is to make the audience cry. Most of the actors try to make themselves cry. But this is not good acting. When the actor himself does not cry, the formless feeling inside him becomes real in the person in front of him, and your breathing pattern matches with the breathing pattern of the person in front, then the same feeling will come inside the audience as will come inside the actor. The same can be said about the film also. Some films present a complexity so simply that you get connected to them. Some change your life. Some change your mind and some leave you shocked. One such film is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The ending of this film is so sad that it gives goosebumps. Man becomes rooted in one place. The ironies of life and the beauty of sadness are there in this film.
massacre of jews
This film is based on the novel named ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’. This film, released in 2008, is a Holocaust historical drama. Its director is Mark Harmon. The film is set against the backdrop of Nazi Germany. This is the story of the Second World War, where Hitler’s army had captured Poland. Jews were being massacred. They were killed by putting them in the gas chamber. In such a situation, an officer of Hitler’s army gets promoted and shifts from Berlin to Poland. His family also shifts with him – daughter, wife and son Bruno.
The story of Bruno’s innocence!
This film is the story of Bruno’s innocence. He has left his friends in Berlin. He doesn’t have anyone to play with. All the people there are Khadus. He is looking for a friend. He cannot make friends with Jews. And all the Germans are people working in the army. There is a Jew in his house. He cooks. He had once been a doctor. But now before the doctor he is a Jew. Seeing his plight he also asks his mother about him. So he is told, he is different. Jews are not humans, they are monsters.
Is he a human being or a monster?
Later on, this same demon makes a swing for the child and bandages his injuries, but how can humans do this? When Bruno is asked what he wants to become, he says that he wants to become an explorer. The teacher teaching him tells him that no Jew in the world is good, if Bruno finds a good Jew, he will be called the greatest explorer of this world.
Bruno: a great explorer
Well, the real story of this film begins when Bruno finds a camp of Jews behind his house. Don’t make the mistake of asking how to get it. After all, Bruno is an explorer. Jews are kept in very bad conditions in these camps. He wears prison clothes. The physique is as if one has been hungry for many years. The hair from their heads is peeled. It is here that Bruno meets a child. His name is Shmuel, and he is a good Jew. That means Bruno found a good Jew, now he is the world’s greatest explorer.
There is another world beyond the stars
Well, Bruno can’t enter the camp. There are barbed wires between him and that Jewish kid. Like he was drawing a line between them. There is another world beyond the stars and another world beyond the stars. There is excellent juxtapositioning in the film. For example, in Parasite we saw that during the rains, there is chaos in a poor colony and on the other hand, a rich child sets up a camp and enjoys in the open. Similarly, imagine the scene in this film, when Bruno steals a cake from his house and brings it to Samuel. At that time, see that Jewish child eating, you will know what hunger and desire to achieve something is like!
The climax of this film is probably the saddest ending of any film. Like ‘The Pianist’. If you have not seen The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and are planning to watch the film after watching this video, then do not proceed further. Well, the biggest spoiler of the last few minutes is about to come. Personally, I find this to be the saddest ending in cinema. Let us tell you how.
sad ending
An army officer who kills Jews. His country hates Jews. He is part of a system that considers Jews as monsters. He commits genocide and also believes in it. His son is unaware of all this. He sees humans even in Jews. He is friends with a Jewish kid. When he learns that the Jewish boy’s father has gone missing, he enters the camp under the stars to search for him. This is the day when Jews are to be killed by being put in gas chambers. Since Bruno sneaks into the camp in disguise, he is also thrown into the gas chamber. The amazing thing is that during this time Bruno keeps holding the hand of the Jewish child. The gas chamber doors are closed. While searching for him, Bruno’s mother and sister explore the camp for the first time. Father is also with me. All three Nazis are crying, the child is standing with a Jew holding hands in the gas chamber. What happens after this, you can understand yourself.
film criticism
Well, this ending was also criticized a lot. Many historians said that the facts have been tampered with. Everyone had their own arguments. It was also said that in the end, the people who tortured the Jews were shown crying. It creates sympathy towards criminals. Questions were also raised as to how Bruno’s mother did not know that Jews were being murdered. Whereas this was well known in Germany at that time. Anyway you raise the question. The ending of the film is going to give goosebumps.
Let us conclude with an interesting fact. You have seen the child playing the role of Bruno growing up in the Netflix series ‘Sex Education’.
Let’s go now. Rest, tell me, according to you, which is the film with the saddest ending in this world?
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