O/T Boy in the striped pyjamas last night BBC 2

[KZNSeagull]

Really? I didn't think that...

Aye - it is classified as Teenage/Young Adult and it was advertised as that when it was published (I own 2 bookshops). Which is what made the ending so shocking as we didn't think a teenagers book would end like that!!

Edit: And it is published by Random House Children's Books

 

[Mark24]

Very moving and well made film - and the habitual dozing off in front of the telly at 10.30 most certainly did not occur last night...

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

No ones persons life is worth anymore or less than the next. The Nazi father got that lesson well and truely at the end. Apart from the end it was a pretty sanitised view of the Nazi killing machine however and that sublety made the end all the more shocking for some I would think. A well meaning film I would say without being near a masterpiece.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Apart from the end it was a pretty sanitised view of the Nazi killing machine however and that sublety made the end all the more shocking for some I would think.

That's the entire point of the film.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

That's the entire point of the film.

I didn't say it wasn't did I ?.

 

[User removed 4]

That's the entire point of the film.

Has the writer or the producer/director come out and said that ?

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I thought the book had a way bigger impact than the film!

Me too. It's all the more impressive for it being a kids book. I can't imagine how powerful that ending must be for a kid to read.

 

[Nibble]

No ones persons life is worth anymore or less than the next. The Nazi father got that lesson well and truely at the end. Apart from the end it was a pretty sanitised view of the Nazi killing machine however and that sublety made the end all the more shocking for some I would think. A well meaning film I would say without being near a masterpiece.

I concur.

 

[Lawro's Lip]

We watched it without reading the book, but we knew that the story was written for the teenage market, so we were genuinely shocked and upset by the ending. There are not many films that have done that.

I saw it in a cinema when it came out. A woman had taken her ten year old daughter and her friend as a treat. They left in pieces at the end.

Won't forget the Holocaust though!!

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I concur.

How are you doing Nibble ?!. Brighton Rock did ok. A few good reviews. Did you meet Mirren and Hurt ?.