This thread discusses the content article: The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (dir. Mark Herman)

Terrific review. But to Hollywood's credit, there have been some very hard-hitting films on the Iraq conflict that have been made. I think I've already recommended these to you but check out Redacted by Brian De Palma and In The Valley of Elah by Paul Haggis. Don't be stopped by the fact that Haggis' previous film was the horribly overrated and offensive Crash.

Crash was only hyped up by the novice hollywood type and their award academy. I really don't recall anyone I know liking it, and it includes the ones who aren't into movies as much as we are.

It was incredibly popular in Bombay for some reason. Or maybe just in the advertising/journalism circles. Everyone was on and on about how hard hitting it was and how such a movie would NEVER be made in India. Well thank god for that.

Yeah, all my arts-and-crafts friends were quite in raptures over it.

Thandy Newton was so hot in it though.

HathyaSaiBaba wrote:
It was incredibly popular in Bombay for some reason. Or maybe just in the advertising/journalism circles. Everyone was on and on about how hard hitting it was and how such a movie would NEVER be made in India. Well thank god for that.

Ah, could be the same audience that loved Blood Diamond, because somebody had to make a movie about those poor poor people.

It was, in fact. We had a blast watching that film, though. It was hilarious - kinda like a black and white buddy movie parody of LOTR with these dunces looking for the 'precious'. Jaison had just got his hands on the PSP and in the interval, created a character in Sims 2 who looked exactly like the black guy, dressed him in a kilt and had him running around frantically. I found that so funny I kept laughing about it all through the rest of the film.