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**goldcigarettes** · 10-21-2009, 04:03 AM

I guess what distressed me about the movie (no, I never read the book) is that it presumes that the audience will find it more distressing for the little German boy to be inadvertently killed than for the little Jewish boy or all the Jewish men to be rounded up and gassed.

And I am sorry that is the presumption whether the filmmakers recognize it or not.

Isn't that what makes everyone queasy about this book and movie?

Or am I just stating the ridiculously obvious?

I think in my review I said that Boyne makes the Shoah judenrein. Because yes, you're right.

10-21-2009, 04:03 AM	#10
goldcigarettes Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 516 Senior Member	I guess what distressed me about the movie (no, I never read the book) is that it presumes that the audience will find it more distressing for the little German boy to be inadvertently killed than for the little Jewish boy or all the Jewish men to be rounded up and gassed. And I am sorry that is the presumption whether the filmmakers recognize it or not. Isn't that what makes everyone queasy about this book and movie? Or am I just stating the ridiculously obvious? I think in my review I said that Boyne makes the Shoah judenrein. Because yes, you're right.
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