Showing posts with label The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Show all posts

Thursday, January 15, 2009

She said the same thing about Larry Clark's "Kids"

Our dear, dear Lisa on "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas":

Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is 8 years old in 1940s Berlin when his daddy (David Thewlis) moves Mama (Vera Farmiga) and the kids closer to work. Small detail: Dad is a Nazi officer who runs a concentration camp. Gaping at a strange nearby ''farm,'' the inquisitive lad befriends a boy on the other side of the barbed wire who is much like Bruno — except, you know, Jewish and slated for extinction. As a Holocaust-for-kids fable, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an appalling, jaw-dropping movie that will cause serious nightmares. D–

This is the entire review. Of course, Entertainment Weekly is still a circulating magazine and they only have so much room for reviews... but when they come this small, there really shouldn't be much room to mess up. Right?

If you scroll down a bit on the page, you'll find this credit information that Lisa apparently wasn't aware of when she wrote about this "Holocaust-for-kids fable":



Two inches of magazine space, ruined!