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穿条纹睡衣的男孩 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas in the United States) is a

2008 British film based on the novel of the same name by Irish writer John Boyne.

Directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Heyman, it stars Asa Butterfield, Jack

Scanlon, David Thewlis, and Vera Farmiga.

A Holocaust drama, the film explores the horror of a World War II extermination camp

through the eyes of two eight-year-old boys, one the son of the camp's Nazi commandant,

the other a Jewish inmate.

SS officer Ralf (David Thewlis) and his wife Elsa (Vera Farmiga) move from Berlin to the

countryside with their children, twelve-year-old Gretel (Amber Beattie) and eight-year-old

Bruno (Asa Butterfield), after Ralf is promoted to commandant of a Nazi concentration

camp, of which Bruno refers to as "Out-With", although later in the movie his sister keeps

protesting that his pronounciation is incorrect, which brings us to the conclusion that the

camp is probably Auschwitz.

Confined to the grounds of the family's new home, without friends, Bruno craves

companionship and adventure. He eventually escapes through the window of an

outhouse, treks through the woods, and emerges at an isolated, unguarded corner of the

concentration camp, which he initially believes to be a farm. There, he befriends Shmuel

(Jack Scanlon), a boy of the same age. Bruno returns frequently thereafter, bringing

Shmuel food and playing games with him through the barbed wire fence. Shmuel

gradually disabuses Bruno of the idea that the people in the camp are farmers; he tells

Bruno that he and his family have been imprisoned, and forced to wear the "striped

pajamas," because they are Jews.

Bruno and Gretel's tutor, Herr Liszt (Jim Norton) feeds the children a diet of antisemitic

bigotry and nationalist propaganda under the guise of teaching them history. In response,

Gretel becomes increasingly fanatical in her support for the Third Reich. She covers her

bedroom wall with Nazi propaganda posters, and flirts with Lieutenant Kurt Kotler (Rupert

Friend), a mean and nasty Nazi unlike Ralf, as her budding sexuality becomes fixated on

the ideal of the German soldier. In contrast, Bruno is skeptical of Liszt's teachings. The

Jews Bruno knows, Shmuel and the family's kindly servant Pavel (David Hayman), do not

resemble the tutor's antisemitic stereotypes. He also witnesses savage, senseless acts of

Nazi brutality that conflict with the propaganda ideal of military heroism. One night, when

Pavel accidentally overturns Kotler's wine glass at the table, the furious officer drags

Pavel out of the room. Through the ajar door to the kitchen, we see Kotler's jackboot

delivering vicious kicks, and are led to presume that the elderly man dies from the brutal

beating.

After Pavel's death, Shmuel is sent to the commandant's home in the role of a houseboy.

When Bruno comes across the hungry boy cleaning glasses in the house, he gives him

some cake. When Kotler sees crumbs on Shmuel's lips, and accuses him of stealing,

Shmuel tells the officer the truth: Bruno is his friend, and Bruno gave him the cake.

Terrified, Bruno betrays Shmuel, saying that he has never seen the boy before and that

Shmuel stole the cake. Some days later, a remorseful Bruno finds Shmuel at the fence,

with his eye badly beaten. Shmuel forgives Bruno, and the boys shake hands through the

fence.

From a comment of Kotler's about the stench from the crematoriums, Elsa learns that Ralf

presides over an extermination camp, not a labor camp as she has been led to believe.

Thereafter, the couple argue repeatedly about Ralf's role at the camp and the children's

proximity to it. Eventually, they decide that Elsa will take the children to their Aunt Lotte's

in Heidelberg. But the day before Bruno is due to leave, Shmuel reveals that his father has

gone missing in the camp. Seeing an ideal opportunity for a final adventure, Bruno digs a

hole beneath the barbed wire the following morning, changes into prison clothing that

Shmuel has stolen for him, and enters the camp to help Shmuel find his father. Inside,

Bruno is horrified by the dehumanization, starvation, and sickness; the camp is the very

antithesis of the Theresienstadt-esque propaganda film that had shaped his prior

impressions.

As the boys search fruitlessly for Shmuel's father, they become intertwined with a group of

prisoners who are being herded toward the gas chambers. Inside, everyone is instructed

to undress for a "shower." A soldier wearing a gas mask pours Zyklon B granules into the

chamber. Bruno and Shmuel grasp each other's hands tightly as the lights go out.

Back at the house, Elsa discovers that Bruno is missing, and raises the alarm. Using

tracking dogs, Ralf and other soldiers follow the boy's trail through the woods. When they

discover his discarded clothing at the camp's perimeter, and see the hole dug beneath the

fence, Ralf races inside, searching desperately for his son. Seeing the gas chamber doors

locked, Ralf realizes what has happened and cries out in anguish; hearing him, Elsa and

Gretel fall to their knees sobbing over Bruno's clothes. The family is left to face the tragic

irony that Bruno has become a victim of the Nazi death camp run by his own father.

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