Watched the BBC filming a movie released in 2008, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas". The storytelling is unusually flat, straightforward, and without twists and turns. The camera focuses on an eight-year-old boy, who completes the film from his point of view. This boy is innocent, ignorant of world affairs, and his eyes are as clear as a lake. So, we saw this story: a boy moved to a boring place, but he always yearned for exciting and exciting adventures, his family took care of him growing up, and at his age, no one asked him to go Knowing what is right and what is wrong, he just ignorantly listened to the various remarks that people around him were saying to vilify Jews. In his eyes, all he sees is the same little boy as him, who is his friend, his playmate, and he uses his own soul to feel the reality of the world. He was still naive to the end, and he walked into the small warehouse where his life ended.
This should be the most "warm" art work describing the concentration camp. In the eyes of children, Auschwitz concentration camp has become a lively and lively farm, with many playmates, colorful games, and unknown and mysterious waiting for exploration. Is shocked. It was the fearsome Auschwitz concentration camp! The real purgatory, the slaughterhouse of life where humanity has been wiped out. Those who know that period of history are all indifferent to the heavy realities, and none of them will be silent for a long time in the too painful memories hidden under the dust. Precisely because Auschwitz was so dark and terrifying that any depiction of its horrors would seem weak and pale, the film simply doesn't write about its ghastlyness, and just twists it into an attractive one. The mysterious place only shows some unusual visions in occasional details, such as: the stumbling servants peeling potatoes at home, the black smoke that often rises from the farm, the grandparents who died of illness in the boy in pajamas... These all make people feel It is easy to guess the simplest, but cruelest truth. But the movie doesn't tell the truth, the kind little protagonist is stupider than the audience, so everyone is worried about him, because we all know that such a terrible place is not really just tenderness, we hold back, wait, Guess when the movie ripped off that veil to reveal the bloody truth. But in the end, it was not torn apart, and we could only look at the heavy and closed iron door for a long time, watching it fade, fade, but there was no change until it faded away completely and the movie ended. The hearts of the audience were always suppressed and could not be released in the slightest. There was not a single bloody scene in the film. Beating servants and children would be pulled out of the camera, but it made our hearts heavier than ever before. So, the movie was a success. The narrative technique alone firmly grasps the hearts of the audience. It is not unexpected, but it makes people feel acrid and sour. In addition, this film has a deep satire on Nazism, genocide, war, etc., regardless of the content or depth, it makes people applaud, and a good conscience movie.
By the way, the role of children in works of art is really intriguing. The appearance of children often warms people's hearts and gives birth to a lot of love and affection out of thin air, but these children tend to be in dark, depraved, and bloody places, involving human nature and can't help but have many complex emotions: disgust for places, love for children. Sympathy, reflection on such a situation, and thinking about the future... just adding a small role will really add a lot to the work.
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