The boy in the striped pyjamas

A movie set during world war II

the father of the family was played by David Thewlis
he portrayed the uptightness of his character well

This movie explored the theme of the consequences of keeping secrets
the fathers son is not told about concentration camps and led to believe its a farm and has many exciting things to do

This theme leads to each event within the movie

I found this movie to be well thought out and well presented
4/5

Akira

An anime set in Neo tokyo- the remnants of Tokyo after it was destroyed and the occurance of world war 3

It is rather violent
definately for adults
The graphics were good

This movie was hard to follow at times
and I felt the ending was unclear and could have been explained slightly better
I am not used to watching violent movies so I found the violence particularly graphic

Despite this the plot was well thought out and it was generally engaging

4/5

Dan in Real Life

A story about a man who has lost his wife and goes on holiday with his extended family

I feel like this movie did not explain some aspects as well as it should have
It would show a hint of something but then never refer to it again
such as how his family is isolating him, the reason is never explained, and their home life is shown only once

It showed the character Dan ban his children from doing certain activites but in reality breaks all these rules himself

The ending was rather abrupt

but it was rather amusing at times

I rate it 3/5

My sisters keeper, Jodi picoult

This is copied from my other blog Mercedes Musings