The Ending: Young German boy Bruno (Asa Butterfield) digs his way into the concentration camp to help his Jewish friend Schmuel (Jack Scanlon) find his father. However, as he's disguised in the same prisoner's clothing as everyone else, he's rounded up along with Schmuel and sent to the gas chamber. Bruno's father Ralf (David Thewlis) and mother Elsa (Vera Farmiga) arrive just too late, to find out that the gassing has already taken place, and their son and Schmuel are dead. Why It's Awesome: Because as tasteless as it might be to say, Holocaust movies are a dime a dozen these days, and to see the atrocities depicted from a unique perspective is very much welcome. Schindler's List has already done the whole "lost innocence" thing with the girl in the red coat, but through the prism of a naive German child? That's something new. Though such an approach could easily have been too on-the-nose, the dramatic irony of the movie's final moments cement the abject human terror of the events, while absolutely refusing to downplay the fact that the Nazis were targeting very particular groups on the whole.
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