《穿着条纹睡衣的男孩》：围栏内外，是平等的我们

今天我们来聊聊最近有好几位听友推荐的电影，《穿着条纹睡衣的男孩》--The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. 

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【英文参考】

It takes places in one of the cruelest and most shameful moments of human history, the Holocaust.  [ˈhoʊləkɔːst大屠杀 ]

A young boy named Bruno lives in Berlin, in Nazi Germany. His father is promoted, and relocates their family to Poland. Living without neighbors, Bruno becomes lonely and bored. 

One day, he spots people working on what he thinks is a farm in the distance – actually it is a concentration camp (集中营). He sneaks into the woods, arriving at a wire fence surrounding the camp. There, he befriends a Jewish boy named Shmuel. In the end, tragically, both of them have died. 

The film ends by showing the closed door of the silent gas chamber, indicating that all prisoners, including Bruno and Shmuel, are dead.

The movie is based on the novel of the same name published in 2006. In the book version, we see how Shmuel and Bruno were born on the exact same day. And yet their lives are completely different. How ironic. 

“The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.” 

Ah, those people...well, they're not people at all, Bruno.

Bruno once asked Shmuel, “Why do you wear pajamas all day?”

Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away.

Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away. ”

We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that? 

But before Bruno knows he needs to leave the town with his family, he sneaks out again to find Shmuel, and holds Shumel’s tiny hand in his tightly and says, "You're my best friend, Shmuel. My best friend for life.”

……

And then the room went very dark and somehow, despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let it go.

“Only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

In war-torn regions like Syria, we see millions of people fighting for the very freedoms we all take for granted. We may not be aware of the other person’s suffering until we become the other person. Complete equality might be impossible to achieve, but we can be more compassionate towards people who are suffering. 

背景音乐：

An odd discovery beyond the trees

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