The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDuapYNd6OE

The movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a ficitional movie that examines World War II and Hitler's quest for world domination through unconventional and disastrous methods. War is the prime example of a disaster because it affects a wide array of people and cultures. World War II had a worldwide impact and negatively affected most people of the countries who were involved. The attempted extermination of many groups of people, mostly those of Jewish ancestry, tore apart families and took the lives of many thousands of innocent people.

This movie, and its subject, are related to media because War is often associated with bias and miscommunication in the media. In this movie, the father of the young boy, who is a part of the Nazi army, tells his son that he does not need to worry about his work and that it is for a good cause for their country. This miscommunication is a result of the shame that the soldiers felt about what they did to innocent people for the sake of their own rise to power; they wished to make other people believe that what they were doing was for a good cause, when in reality they knew that it was unneccessary and brutal. Throughout the decades of wars that the world has experienced, most media outlets have resorted to lying and twisting stories of the war so that the people will fully support futher involvement.

Unfortunately, this is a continual cycle that the world cannot break and if it does not stop, war will continue to cause disaster around the globe.