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I wonder if they're going to make a movie adaptation But they might have to recast Gretel since Amber Beattie stopped acting in 2011

Still a good movie. No one said it was factual. Look at superman. He just takes off flying without running, when everyone knows that ya have to take three steps before you can take off flying.

One of my pet peeves that I hear revolves around the statement at 7:40. The claim that “historical accuracy or authenticity does not matter in a work of fiction” can be damaging to not only the viewer but the general audience. Let’s be real here, most people learn about history through entertainment: especially movies and video games. These movies and games, wether intentional or by a mistake, can spread misinformation about a topic.

I wasn’t going to comment but by the end I had a lot to say. First of all I like the book and read it while I was learning about WW2 (although we didn’t cover the book in class). I understood it was fiction but found the whole situation interesting so it encouraged me to find out more about this part of history which I probably wouldn’t have otherwise. Secondly, I don’t think it’s supposed to be a historical account, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a useful tool in making school children interested in something that otherwise is abstract to them. Finally, as a science teacher there are lots of times we ask our students to think critically about the way we talk about concepts in the classroom. Even commonly accepted models are limited in depicting the depth or magnitude of reality. So if we can ask students to do that for science I don’t see any reason why they can’t apply those skills in History or English. On the whole, my take is that the book is great further reading for students who already know the history, and if teachers are planning to use it in the classroom they should be prepared to have a broader discussion about the characters, the plot points and the history. And none of that means that the book or film is in any way bad, or that the author has done something wrong by writing the novel in the first place. On the contrary, the writing is clever and he tells a story that resonates. The child-like innocence of the narrator and inaccurate terms like “pajamas” serve the story, it is up for the reader to correctly interpret those misunderstandings in the context of the history. And one part of the film I love is at the very end, when the family are sobbing for Bruno, the camera pans to show a room full of “striped pajamas” and the audience is left to realise that the tragedy was not the loss of one fictional German boy, but in truth it was absolute devastation to entire communities. If that message is too profound for children then perhaps this is not a children’s book/film, just a book/film from the perspective of a child.

It is by far my most favorite show. I have HBO Max and I watch both seasons on repeat over and over. I'm on my 7th watch. The storyline was excellent, the costumes were on point. The acting was phenomenal. This show needs to get picked up again before the actors are too old to play the parts. I hope it makes a come back real soon.🤞🤞

Pointless video, I do not think there is anyone in this world who watches this particular movie looking for historical accuracy, it's supposed to be a movie that shares a message, not a history lesson. And, who knows, the historical inaccuracy is probably because the movie is mainly from the perspective of a child, a child in a privileged position that was on the side that was not suffering the atrocities of the holocaust.

The dude murked off his own kid tryna gas da bald kid

John Boyne, the guy who writes books about how real nazis deserve empathy and free speech.

shush this movie was good as hell, everyone's not that stupid to believe this actually happened , they just know that the actual camps happened

Remember...the movie is FICTION...same as Titanic or The Reader. These movies are not documentaries. It's a story meant to arouse emotions, not to take sides.

I can’t speak on the book or the author, but This film deeply impacted me in my childhood (I believe I was 12 or so at the time), and I treasure it immensely still. You and some of the commenters definitely make good points about the lack of historical accuracy, for example with everyone being so naive about what’s going on around them, the fact Bruno isn’t already indoctrinated into Nazi propaganda, no patrolling guards, etc. all of this can be misleading about what the camps and those who conducted them were like. However , I did not come away from the film thinking that the camps weren’t all that bad. It painted a pretty vivid picture about how terrible it was, and I think a lot of the horror also came from what Bruno (and us) don’t see. Watching the behind the scenes documentary it seems like there was a deep reverence for the subject matter from for all the cast and crew. I don’t think It’s censored or played down, just left unmentioned, because Shmuel can’t bring himself to talk about it. All he wants is to be a kid, and the only opportunity he has for that is with Bruno. The fact we saw things from the perspective of the perpetrators, for me, was a harsh cautionary lesson. It made me think a lot more about how much I look away from what my own country does, due to naivety, or willful ignorance. The ending of the film was especially haunting to me. I didn’t feel like we saw the parents cry just from the grief of losing their son. I think the performances showed an unsettling realization that only the loss of their son could have made them see their own monstrosity. Unfortunately in real life, I have pretty high doubts that a case like the one depicted in the story would even be enough for the perpetrators to realize anything at all. Probably would have just blamed the prisoners even more. Nevertheless I think the film is very powerful, and the child performances bring a lot of heart. But it should not be used to teach the facts of history, at least not without caveats.

when we had to read this in highschool (uk) they taught it us as if it were based on real historical events rather than being a work of fiction. sadly im not even joking when i say i think some of the TEACHERS believed it was based on fact. i remember that throughout the book, bruno keeps mistakenly calling auschwitz as 'out-with' or something like that and i was so confused. i said to the teacher 'wait, wouldnt they be speaking german? shouldnt that be 'raus mit' or something? that sounds nothing like auschwitz' the teacher had nothing to say. we never read anne franks diary or maus or anything like that. shocking really, looking back.

Why wasn't there a revolution in the victorian era

Very late to the party but if I were to Recommend a book, I’d recommend Prisoner B-3987, my 7th or 8th grade teacher read it me as a class and it’s so good and it’s based off of someone who survived the camps! Such a great read

Jojo Rabbit is a nice film that teaches the same message of acceptance in spite of differences. And it doesn’t gloss over the murder of millions.

Thank you very much for this video, I like Terry Deary and HH very much you have been intelligent in your argument in highlighting the books/shows' aim to re-teach History in a compelling, fin-but-with-purpose and engaging way that children (and adults!) can get into easily, enjoy and learn something, especially the bits 'they don't teach you at school'. I have read some of books and watched the show with my Son when he was younger and even though he's grown up now and I'm nearly 50 I still love HH, (I even know by heart with actions at least 30 of the songs and proud of it!) I could talk about it loads with joy but for the purposes of this comment I'm just going to say that I love the fact that they used a friendly character like Ratus Ratus to not only make little jokes at times about how daff and idiotic the Elite have been in many Countries over History but to encapsulate in a few words what was the History we have just watched and why it's important. Also if you have say more than one Child of differing ages, the old ones put it on after school with a younger pre-school age Sibling say, the little one isn't really going to understand what the silly men and ladies are doing but they are going to engage more with the silly friendly puppet .So I think he's an integral part of the show and he is needed for younger members and he's a key element in highlighting what is true or silly outlining what was fact from just comedy in that sketch.😊❤🗺📜📖📺🎶

Superb video. Thank you.

@ 7:06 When I first saw the film: I never saw it as ‘the film is trying to make it seem like the perpetrators were actually the victims’, I more so saw it as ‘The father was so committed in supporting the horrible Nazi ideology, and then had to pay the price by loosing his son’

I read the book and thot that it was very odd. Brunos parents would have raised him from birth to be aware of jews and to hate them. To let him be so innocent placed him in incredible danger. And Smuel was very aware of what was going on, yet he also placed Bruno in incredible danger. He too was portrayed as far too innocent in his given surroundings.

This book takes a really strange perspective that makes me wonder what Gretel truly regrets: the Holocaust and her father's involvement in it, or her brother's death and the way she contributed to it. Somehow I noticed that she very rarely feels guilty about the Jews themselves. All her most emotional experiences involve memories with Bruno. The others aren't even close to that deep. Even what Gretel does at the end of the book is only to save another little boy and thus drown out her remorse after "killing" her brother. But yes, while Bruno's death seems to be Gretel's genuine regret, all the other deaths don't look like that anymore and it seems that she only thinks and says what other people demand from her. This makes me ask: if Germany won the war, would she still regret it? Or even if they still lost but Bruno survived, would she feel bad about what her father did? Because it looks like for this family everything that happened would be fine and Bruno's death is the only thing that disturbed this order, so in some unnatural way they try to erase him from their lives. It's strange enough that Gretel herself never wants to say her brother's name but it's even weirder when her mother does it. This reaction is completely unnatural and no mother would behave this way after losing a child. Yes, the memories are painful, but parents who have lost a child want to talk about it and remember it and they don't behave like as if this child had never existed and it was urgent to erase him from your life. It turns out, however, that this was the main problem for maintaining morality in this family, because Bruno's death constantly reminded them that they were involved in something wrong. However, if this death didn't happened, they would probably just ignore it and consider it an inconvenient fact of the past that isn't worth mentioning much.

Yeah those are not medieval at all go listen to the bardcore vs real medieval music video, is over 1h long but you'll understand a lot about it, right now what if we want to make them sound like ancient and early medieval music we need to over use the phrigian note that gives it the most oriental sound we can get. Thus creating something we can name oriental bardcore, and if we add the fifths and fourths overuse in the vocal parts... Muah, chef kiss

thanks for giving me so much time to read everything.

i remember thinking this was the horrible histories movie before i found out about the actual horrible histories movie

i watched the movie in class, obviously knew the main story was fiction and the theme (holocaust) was real, i almost cried while others were laughing lol

Yup, looks depression😢 i m so glad i was born in this era☺ where technology is advancing! We have an awesome culture! So *Big Respect+* to our inventors and ancestors!

This was a good, well written movie. It is sort of like crying now about current things. Example: Palestine conducts a massive terrorist attack on Israel..the Palestinians started it, and the Israelis will finish it. Much like 9/11, not much of a chance of intelligence failure as the Bush regime wanted to attack their client state of Iraq they started thinking for themselves. The Mossad had to have known but allowed it to happen. Frankly, if you are from a "state" inside the borders of a real state, it means nothing. The Palestinians are not welcomed in Israel so they should find a place they can really call home. Not this imaginary place they live.

I don't really agree that the story doesn't get you to sympathise with the jews. Scenes like Lieutenant Kotle beating up Pavel and Shmuel were meant (even though they were only implied) were very hard to watch and the aim of them is to make you sympathise with the jews.

Popped over from @christeah. I think this movie is like Marmite: you either love it or hate it, there is no in between. I LOVE L.M. Alcott (and Marmite!) and I absolutely loathed this adaptation. However, I appreciate your research and very thoughtful commentary!

As much as the movie is a guilty pleasure for me due to pure nostalgia, I'm the first to admit how gross and manipulative the film is. The fact that it uses the murder of millions of innocents to push a "why can’t we all just be friends and get along" narrative is nothing short of horrific. And the end where Vera Farmiga is screaming in agony as her son dies always made me wonder: Does the movie want us to cry for the millions of people murdered or does it want us to cry about this one little German boy whose father literally carried out their tortures and executions?

the first one was rich people’s lifestyle

Can you do Tin Drum next?

You know what, I’ma just come out and say it - *_Bedknobs and Broomsticks_* is a more accurate portrayal of World War II. I at least buy that the events would happen in a world where magic exists and the war happened.

It is a FICTIONAL story, well written and impactful for any avid reader, but somehow it is being ripped apart by pseudo critics, pseudo historians and pseudo experts on its "historicity"? Why? What are your credentials to "WARN" other to "not do it the John Boyne way" exactly?! Giving an opinion is one thing but don't sound like you have some kind of expertise on WWII, the holocaust or how to write a book! None of the characters were claimed to be historical by the author and he has every right to take artistic licenses to create his own work and unlike you, he's been successful in his endeavour! If cleopatra can be portrayed as black in a "documentary", a fictional story can be as historically inaccurate as it wants(the whole point of fiction!)

Oh to be a british army officer during the 1880s..

Is this one of the oldest memes? It might be. It just might be.

Only after this movie,I thank God Hitler lose the WWII

I prefer poverty than the madness we live in now

I believe they made it in such a way because ....it helps people "relate" to something that didn't happen to them if they insert themselves into the.... horrific things. Bruno is meant to be us experiencing the events from a privileged position where we see... somewhat.... what happens... without seeing.... yeah it's bad and messy. And it lives off of the idea that we need to imagine what would a fake ourselves feel if we were discriminated against in order to relate

Prosperity is like a pyramid. In order to achieve greater heights (wealth) you need a wider base (poverty).

You sound like a pompous and unhappy woman, stop nitpicking a good movie

How is Jojo Rabbit more historically accurate than The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?

Good

Absolutely love this 💜

I thought Bruno was 8. Not 9. So I don’t get why Gretel avoids 9 year old children

I bet you voted for Biden and will vote for him again even tho the country is falling apart.

Liberals…. The fictional book “Boy in the stripped pajamas” isn’t woke enough.

I never thought it was historically accurate I felt it was more about the principle and situation of the time.

This novel fucking sucks.

Hear, hear. This book and movie are abominations, in their severe non-realism. They inject pure fiction (on super critical points) into this topic--which is utterly obscene and dangerous.