The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

[Heath]

I have watched it a couple of years ago and thought it was alright - I could see why people raved about it, though I thought some of it wasn't brilliantly carried out. I have to say I saw the ending coming from miles away.

[maybee]

This was arguably the stupidest movie I've ever seen. It's like they didn't even make an effort to be historically accurate.

It's a movie.

It's never going to be historically accurate.

[Mirage]

Because no movies are reasonably historically accurate, right?

[kotora]

This movie is just another disgusting example of the glorification and distortion of the Holocaust in popular media. I hate everything this film stands for.

That's what bothers me the most about holocaust movies as well. Everyone knows how to put on their best "never forget!" performance (tears of fake guilt included) after their yearly viewing of Schindler's List, but when you'd ask most people about Halabja, Srebrenica or Rwanda all you'd get is a dumb look because they've never been conditioned to care or even know about what happened there. Guess what: never forgetting is not enough if you have no clue of what's going on in the world!

It all just adds to the stupidity most people barely knowing anything about the holocaust itself. This one Israeli dude was smurfing shocked (to the point of going into denial at first) when I told him the millions of Poles that were murdered in WW2. All they'd ever been told during the obligatory school trips to Poland and the movies is about the jews. Not to mention Obama's "Polish death camps" gaffe.