My Take on Thewlis' Movie 'The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas'

So... I just finished watching 'The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas'
and...
i don't even know where to begin.
first of all, the ending was quite abrupt... but i think i liked it that way because it prompts the audience to question humanity's actions.
I'll admit i cried, but dammit it's hard not to cry. i mean, the kid was only 8 fucking years old.
I think this movie depicts the true horrors of the holocaust in a way that is very... suitable.
Because WWII has long past, we know the facts about it, and how Jews were killed, but even still we never really care about it. It's like we're sitting in social class and then we just start listing off numbers of people who were killed. Those numbers don't mean anything to us, but fuck man, after watching this movie, it actually meant something to me.
Like, that's how... painfully direct this movie is.
Even though the story is told through the eyes of an 8 year old boy, we know what's going on because we know history.
this boy doesn't know; he doesn't understand why the Jews are to be hated, he doesn't understand why his father runs this detention camp (David Thewlis was AMAZING in it btw! i absolutely loved him, but it's quite dicerning to see such a gentle friendly man by nature play such a cruel role)
the only thing he does understand is that his jewish friend isn't evil like everyone says jews are.
his innocence is what gives this movie such a dramatic effect i think. the fact that we've all been that innocent at one point in our lives... and that we all have friends whom we would help out happily without truly understanding the consequences...
I think i would recommend this movie, because the film is just... it's needed in our world. we need something like this to smack sense into us because this happened dammit, and we need to know the true horrors of it, not just some stupid words and numbers on a page. It's real.
Although the movie progresses really slowly at first, i think it's worth watching.
like at the beginning i just watched it because Thewlis was in it (HAHA so vain i know, but i love himm~~ <3) but when it started showing the interactions between the boy and the jewish people, i started watching because as people were telling him that 'Jews are bad, they're not human', i kept thinking 'no, you're wrong. we're all human'
There were more than a few times that i just wanted to stand up and scream at the computer and be like 'fucking hells! they're people! why can't you treat them like people?' and like... it just really... frustrated me to know that back then, the Germans DIDN'T see them as people, but as vermin to be exterminated.
a warning of caution though, this movie doesn't leave you feeling all too happy. instead, it makes you feel kinda disgusted with humanity in general... just an overall depressed feeling, like the kind of feeling where reality just hits you smack dab in the face.
I think... i would recommend social teachers show this in social-20 because after you watch this movie, you start understanding what it was really like. and to think that this was just a small part of it.