In Berlin in the 1940s, Bruno, an eight-year-old boy, returned home after playing outside with his classmates to find that the house was busy. It turned out that his father, who was a Nazi officer, was being promoted and was about to be dispatched, and his mother was preparing for a party.
Children are naturally unhappy when they are about to move to the countryside.
My father said: Think of it as an adventure, like in one of your book.
He also said that a soldier is what the state asks you to do, not a choice, but a responsibility. Of course, having family support is even better:
Going somewhere else is much easier when you know that your family are so delighted to go with you.
So the child is persuaded.
But he was not satisfied with the new house, so he asked the servant how he felt about the new house. The servant said wisely, I shouldn't have said it. Immediately afterwards, she said:
But it won't feel like home until we make it feel like home, will it? The
child is still not satisfied because he can't find a partner to play with, he wants to go home (Home), the father said:
Home is where the family is.
Dad also said:
Bruno, you have to at least give the place a chance. But it's
not fun, it's not fun, there's no partner, and he's not allowed to be with "Strange Pajamas", so he's depressed alone. The servant advised him:
Sitting around being miserable won't make things any happier. The
story goes on, the child grows, the mind changes, the family conflicts... Dad said:
In life, we often have to do things we don't want to do.
But In those days, a child who was ignorant but was "adventure exploring" the world, if he did what he wants to do, darkness might come...
As the movie says at the beginning:
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights , before the dark hour of reason grows.
---- John Betjeman
You can find an introduction on the wiki or IMDB.
Can war, from a child's point of view, impress you again?
Waiting for YDY (Garden of Eden) masterpiece (sadly, I was unable to catch up with the subtitle translation).
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