I ask because I have two children, ages 9 and 7, and I wonder if this would be a good movie for them?
Y'know, if I REALLY wanted to traumatize them.
I remember watxhing the series World at War when I was about 12 or so. I had previously only heard snippets of what had happened in the concentration camps. It was horrible stuff for a 12 year old to watch yet it changed me forever and in nothing but positive ways. A little Trauma as long as it is allied with truth will often lead younger people out of their lives of self interest and on the road to caring for others.
Nine and Seven is very young to be confronted with this though and obvioulsy would depend on the maturity of the youngster.
Mel
I heard that the movie may be too intense for children under 12.
WTF!! Who in their right mind would sit thru yet another concentration camp movie?? And with children yet!!
It's amusing that the article references "Life is Beautiful" whose star, writer, director Roberto Benigni is a committed Communist who masquerades as a comedian. The CPA picked it as its #1 movie that year and I'm sure they'll approve of another Nazi movie.
Owl -
I’m not sure, haven’t seen it, yet.
I have run across the Diary of Anne Frank: The Whole Story on YouBoob. It’s in many parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH2HxdnUdWE&feature=related
Our current economic policies are about as close to Fascism as any I've seen in my life.
Criticism of Hitler easily rolls off every American's tongue -- but we fail to see that we have met the enemy and he is us.
We say: Not me! I voted for McCain! or I'm a Reagan man! -- but there were lots of Germans who said that stuff too. People get swept up in national forces, and pretty soon we're shrugging and watching the neighbor send their children to the Youth Camp and we say "How did we get here?"
Improbable? I thought it was based on a real guy's life.
When I was your children’s age I lived in a neighborhood with dozens of people recently out of the Nazi camps.
I heard their stories first hand. Was not traumatized, just learned the reality of the world and part of history.
Many children are sheltered from the real world and why many can’t cope or continue to hide from reality.
Try the book “Number the Stars” by Lois Lowry for a Holocaust story that is safer for kids that age. It shows the Danish Gentiles in a good light for their protection of their Jewish neighbors.
When I was in my mid-teens I read a couple of paragraphs that haunt me to this day. It was a dad explaining to his son how he should care for his pet mouse. He was to make sure it was fed and watered, that the cage was clean and that the mouse had time to run around outside the cage. He also should always be very careful not to hurt the mouse because it would be wrong to hurt something so helpless.
And then the father put on his SS uniform and went to work rounding up Jews and other undesirables.
The blindness of the father to the evil that he was doing shook me.
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I think the most devastating portrayal of the holocaust believe or not was in the made for TV series “War and Remembrance.” It’s amazing the scenes that were portrayed on there, and they still haunt me to this day, and I’ve seen a lot of other holocaust movies.