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...Nazi concentration camp through the eyes of a naïve German boy. Throughout the film, the juxtaposition of childhood innocence with the unbelievable atrocities committed by the Nazis during Word War II facilitates poignant reflection on the divisions created by racism and torn down by friendship.Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is the eight-year-old son of a Nazi Captain (David Thewlis) who has been transferred to the German countryside to oversee a concentration camp. Bruno, leaving behind his friends and home in Berlin, is anything but ecstatic about his family’s move to a lonely country estate. However...
...their looming presence in our minds renders a movie like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ludicrous. It concerns an eight-year-old boy named Bruno (Asa Butterfield) whose career soldier father (David Thewlis) is placed in command of a concentration camp early in the war. The child is unaware of the camp's function. He thinks it is some kind of farm. All he knows is that he has no friends and no worthwhile activities to divert him. He isn't even allowed to go to school; he and his sister are tutored at home by a Nazi functionary...
...mouth to reply, but before he could, they both watched as the attempted suicide picked himself up and limped away.“Oh,” Felicity said, disappointed.“Neverthelessima,” said Ollie, “no woman—particularimente a woman asa pretty as you—should hava to witness such a thing. I, signora, am the Prince Filippo Fumagalli. May I escort you outside, signiora?”Felicity allowed Ollie to take her arm. She gazed for a moment at the railroad track and sighed deeply...
...same roof as your hubby's extended family - eight, all told, including a peppy sister-in-law who, you soon discover, might be sleeping with her slobbering, mentally impaired teenage brother. Do you run or hide? If you're Noriko Shito (née Hashimoto), the birdbrained protagonist of Asa Nonami's trippy murder mystery Now You're One of Us, you do neither. You shut your mouth, smile and stay...
...Iranian Oil Company Director Gholam Hossein Nozari told a recent industry conference in Vienna. Iran's state-owned oil company, which controls the world's second-largest oil and natural-gas reserves, is auctioning 17 oil blocks that could attract nearly $600 million in foreign investment. Norway's Statoil ASA, Russia's OAO Lukoil Austria's OMV AG, and Spain's Repsol SA were involved in the two-day conference in Vienna, where the tenders are being presented. According to Nozari, Iran needs about $94 billion of foreign investment by 2014 to bolster oil and gas production, especially because...