Saturday, April 11, 2009

The boy with the stripped pyjamas....

So the movie began with four cute kids running through streets of Nazi Germany , One of them "Bruno" stops near his home with amazed eyes,as some things are being taken out, and inside, his beautiful mother tells him that his father has got promotion, so there is going to be a party tonight before they leave for a "better" place.
The boy is not at all comfortable with the idea of shifting (he will be losing his friends, the lovely runnable streets...),but as the situation is :they have the party in night, his grandmother doesn't approve of the nazi ways, so but natural, his father asks her not to xpress her opinion in public( Hitler's germany),
So they leave next day, and the new home, in the country side is more like a packed place, where his father (who is incharge of concentration camps ) is to have meetings with fellows for "country's betterment"...
there is this,old servant"pawell"(Jew), who is working there most of the times,frightened, who one day first aids bruno, when fel, and tells him that he was a doctor, brnuo tells him that he must have been a bad doctor as now he is peeling potatoes as a servant (Pawell can just look up and smile on the innoccence)..........
So Bruno, the xplorer, some day escapes from his home and runs through the small land around his home, to reach some barriers beyond which some people are working, a small kid(named Shmoul ,of the same age as bruno:8) is just sitting behind those barricades as his contemoraries in the camps (yes, those were the concentration camps) fight a lot. So Bruno, from next day, escapes his home somehow regularly, and gets Schomul some things to eat every day, ....
One day, Bruno's mother comes to know ,whas going on in Concentration camps and she is furious over this, that night, while having dinner ,the mood overall was gloomy, and Pawell spills the wine there and is hit badly by the keeper,
and next day, Bruno finds Schmoul in his home cleaning crockeries, they are having a chat when the house keeper comes and shouts at Schomoul for stealing food (which Bruno had just given him), Schoul tells him that he was given food by Bruno, but Bruno is intimidated by the keepers voice and denies having friendship with Schmoul, Schmoul is beaten and sent back to camp.....
brubo runs straight away to his room weeps and immediately runs back to kitchen to ammend for what he had done but Schmoul is gone...
That day his father and officers are watching a movie over those camps in a closed room (Bruno is watching from the window nearby), in that movie, there is presented a version of camps to officers, in which they are told that those camps are having cafes, children do enjoy there and jews are finally learning to be good to people..
Bruno sees it,believes it and hugs his father as soon as he comes out, Bruno's mother who is near by can just smirk from a distance and returns to her room........
Next day, bruno goes back to Schmoul ,apologises, and they are friends again...Schmoul tells him tha he can't find his father for last two days, so bruno tells him that he will help him in finding his father...
Bruno returns home, and his father after having several fights with his wife, is now agree that chidren should not be around ,they should leave for some other place.....
So next day, Bruno takes with him a chisel ,digs the ground beneath those barricades ,changes his clothes with camp clothes and enters the camp..to help Schmoul find his father....they are gone some way when Bruno asks Schmoul if they could go to cafe, schmoul can't comprehend it and just says that there are no cafes there,............. just a distance further, Bruno sees those same stones around which girls were playing in that movie, but its deserted in reality............they enter a block to look for Schmoul's father.....but this is the block they are going to cremate in camp, the kids can't come out and are dragged along with those men.....
over in his home, his mother and father are now searching for Bruno as they were to leave today.......
they all run behind searching dogs,and reach the camps..........
his father runs inside,..
Bruno along with Schmoul and those men, has been cremated till now.and that chimney over whose foul smell, he used to ask his father, is now sending smoke out filled with his own..
his mother and his sister are crying along those barricades where he changed his clothes with camp clothes...........

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