----John Betjema Human progress is based on continuous reflection and summarizing history. And the war reflection on World War II is still going on until now. From "Operation Valkyrie" to "Saving Private Ryan" to "The Pianist" to "Schindler's List", until recently "The Reader" and "Assassination of Hitler", the above mentioned films It's a way to reflect on World War II by confronting historical facts, and last year's "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" director Mark Herman, however, revealed this horrific World War II historical fact scene by scene from the perspective of two 8-year-old boys, providing the possibility for another narrative method, and unexpectedly creating a more shocking effect than previous World War II movies. In 1943, the Second World War entered a white-hot stage, and the whole of Europe fell into the bitter sea of war. In the summer of that year, the father of 8-year-old Bruno was promoted to commander of the concentration camp, and the family moved from Berlin to Auschwitz, southwest of Warsaw. From the bedroom window, Bruno looked at the place where his father worked, and all he saw was a group of people dressed in pyjamas, walking around. And that place was surrounded by towering walls and barbed wire. All this reminds Bruno of the game between friends in his hometown, but it doesn't seem to be as simple as the game, which arouses Bruno's endless curiosity. The curious nature of the child prompts Bruno to sneak out of the house and follow the barbed wire to start his own exploration of the new world. He imagines that he is the fearless protagonist of the story, single-handedly exploring the unknown world. There, he met a young boy named Shmuel, and although there was an electrified wire fence between them, that didn't stop the two boys from happily playing their own game. The difference in living environment also allows the two boys to have endless topics. They play games together, play chess and run across the barbed wire, and tell each other about the bits and pieces of their lives. And for Bruno, the more stories he heard, the more curious he became about life over the barbed wire, and eventually, he decided to go and see the world over there. Soon, Bruno was putting his plans into action. He carefully crafted his disguise, put on his horizontally striped pajamas, dug a hole under the barbed wire and climbed into a world that intrigued him. But soon he found that the barbed wire was not like Shmuel said, countless people were running and screaming, there were wolf dogs, guns and a group of people dressed like Dad. In the end Bruno was locked behind the heavy iron door forever. The reason why this film is shocking is to a large extent the director's narrative technique (this film is adapted from John Byrne's novel of the same name, to be precise, the writing technique of the original author), all Bruno's seeing and hearing are isolated A layer of unspoken emptiness. When Bruno saw the concentration camp in the distance from his bedroom window, he ran to his father curiously and asked, "Why do the farmers wear pajamas?" and his father stammered, "Those When Lieutenant Kotler beats Pavel to death, the film only shows the servants scrubbing the bloody floor the next day; when Bruno finds the pungent smell of black smoke wafting from the "Farm", the father protects Bruno from It is said to be burning garbage; when Shmuel is "betrayed" by Bruno and taken away by Lieutenant Kotler, the camera shows Bruno continuously appearing on the other side of the barbed wire without seeing Shmuel; finally Bruno and Shmuel both strip naked, and a A large group of people walked into the heavy and dark iron door, no screams, no footage from the iron door, only the large iron door and scattered prison clothes. In this regard, anyone who has studied history can know what is going on from these descriptions. Blue sky, white clouds, swaying swings, Auschwitz, which looks like a paradise on earth, is actually a purgatory on earth. But Bruno and Shmuel, both 8-year-olds, have no idea about it. Bruno likes to explore, their backyard is the first place he explores, and the "farm" outside the high walled compound where they live is the second place he explores; Shmuel doesn't know himself Why should I be locked in this iron net, I don't know why my clothes were taken away by the soldiers, why I put on "striped"
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