Paula’s Films Blog

Chris is married and he has got one son. Before getting married, Chris invested all his money in high definition scanners a little more expensive than standard scanners, and he bought many of them, about 20, but what he didn’t know is that hospitals see these scanners as “a unnecessary luxury “so these scanners are very difficult to sell. When Chris and his family are in ruins, his wife abandons him, leaving in his charge their son, the scanners and the rent. One day, while Chris is visiting a hospital, stops in front of a “borsa” office, and someone tells him that it is a very well paid job, so Chris goes into one of the offices looking for a work. The secretary say to him that for this work he will have to convince the chiefs that he is one of 20 guys who can enter in the program for 6 months of learning this job. When he has come into the program, he still living in appalling conditions, he can’t pay the rent so he and his son have to go to sleep in some rooms that are giving by the hospital. To be number one among 20 guys, he makes many things and invests much effort to get it, until in the end achieves his objective: happiness.

I like this film because it shows the importance of be happy, and it shows that no everybody finds the happiness easily, a lot of people have to work a lot for become happy. The film also shows the relation of a father and his son, and although they are unhappy, they are minimally happy because they have each other, sometimes without our family, people would become a little mad… And I like it also because Will Smith it’s a really good actor and I think that he interprets his role very well.

This is a movie based on a book that explains the history of nacis from the viewpoint of a child of 12 years called Bruno. Bruno is the son of an official naci, so he and his family will move in a house next to the concentration camp of Auschwitz. Bruno doesn’t want to leave his city because he believes that he will lose their three “best friends for life”. Bruno is very bored in his new home because he doesn’t go to school and he hasn’t got neighborhood, so he hasn’t got friends, so one day he will visit the area around his house, and through a gate Bruno meet Smuel, a boy with the same age as Bruno but a little different physically, Smuel is thinner, paler and with his hair shaved at 0. Bruno realizes that Smuel and all the other people behind the gate dressed in a striped pyjamas, and he doesn’t understand why. One day Smuel asks Bruno to help him to look for his father because a few days ago he had gone nowhere and he never returned. Bruno agrees to help, so Smuel brings to Bruno a striped pyjamas and Bruno dresses and traspas the gate. They enter in the middle of a bunch of people and it begins to rain. They are been bringing somewhere but they don’t know where and when they come indoors, Bruno think that is because of the rain, but suddenly their lives ends. After a few months of searching for Bruno, his father understand what really happened.

I really like this film, because it shows the story of the nacis from the viewpoint of a boy that he doesn’t know anything about it, so he doesn’t know why everything happens. I think that’s a film that everyboy must see for knowing more about the nacis and for seeing it more closely.