i was feeling down and disappointed with things around me last week. all i wanted to do was lay back and watch a good movie with the kids. (and imagine how good it would feel to kick your behind for being 'foolish' and expect me to foolishly buy the crap youre selling... im not 23, im 43! i know what youre doing anyway you slice it..)
anyway..the boy in the striped pyjamas wasnt at all what i expected it to be. i usually scanned the review, i obviously didnt this one.
before i go further, i would like to apologize for the sensitivity of this post..
i have friends from all walks of life. all colors (if you so insist that i mention this bit). and faith. i think because the setting was during world war 2, my 1st and 3rd fell asleep half way watching it. trish asked a lot of questions. why did the soldier talk that way to the old man? what is that smoke, what are they burning? i read about concentration camps, but obviously not enough to know what they were burning at the time. so we watched together commenting how he is curious to know more about pavel and how nice and kind bruno is towards shmuel. anyway..when bruno and shmuel went looking for shmuels dad, they were 'trapped' along with hundreds other prisoners, led into a gas chamber.
on seeing this, trish grew terrified and repeatedly asked what are they doing to them? are they really taking a shower? i suggested toturn it off. that shes too young to understand. but she insisted that we watch it till the end. and so we did.
trish asked, why did the hitler soldiers do that? i explained that its war time and thats why war is bad. she asked again, "but why?" and she asked again, "but why?"....
in my heart and mind, terrified of blasphemy
the somewhat courageous coward
anyway..the boy in the striped pyjamas wasnt at all what i expected it to be. i usually scanned the review, i obviously didnt this one.
before i go further, i would like to apologize for the sensitivity of this post..
i have friends from all walks of life. all colors (if you so insist that i mention this bit). and faith. i think because the setting was during world war 2, my 1st and 3rd fell asleep half way watching it. trish asked a lot of questions. why did the soldier talk that way to the old man? what is that smoke, what are they burning? i read about concentration camps, but obviously not enough to know what they were burning at the time. so we watched together commenting how he is curious to know more about pavel and how nice and kind bruno is towards shmuel. anyway..when bruno and shmuel went looking for shmuels dad, they were 'trapped' along with hundreds other prisoners, led into a gas chamber.
on seeing this, trish grew terrified and repeatedly asked what are they doing to them? are they really taking a shower? i suggested toturn it off. that shes too young to understand. but she insisted that we watch it till the end. and so we did.
trish asked, why did the hitler soldiers do that? i explained that its war time and thats why war is bad. she asked again, "but why?" and she asked again, "but why?"....
in my heart and mind, terrified of blasphemy
the somewhat courageous coward
