The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

Jewish Man: No, it's just a shower.

Father: What are you doing today?
Bruno: The same as yesterday.
Father: And what was that.
Bruno: The same as the day before.

Bruno: Why do you wear pajamas all day?
Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away.
Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away.

Mother: No Ralph No, not that... That isn't war.
Father: The fatherland we all desire cannot be achieved without work such as this.
Mother: Don't touch me.

Bruno: Dad's a good man.
Gretel: Of course he is.

Bruno: He used to be a doctor once, but gave it all up to peel potatoes.

Grandpa: You know, Ralf, your mother really is sick. She's been talking about this visit for weeks.
Mother: Maybe that's what's made her sick.

Pavel - Jewish servant: I practiced as a doctor.
Bruno: You must not have been very good then, if you had to practice.

Bruno: It's not fair you've got a nicer view.
Gretel: I'm not swapping.

Mother: Ralf, you promised: You said it was miles away... One of them was in our kitchen.

Bruno: I'm Bruno.
Shmuel: Shmuel.
Bruno: Sorry?
Shmuel: I'm Shmuel.
Bruno: That's your name? I've never heard of anyone called that before.
Shmuel: I've never heard of anyone called Bruno.
Bruno: Shmuel? No one's called Shmuel.

Bruno: I want to go home.
Father: You are home, Bruno. Home is where the family is.

Lieutenant Kotler: How dare you talk to someone in the house? How dare you? Have you been stealing from the house?.. When I come back, we'll have a little chat about what happens to rats who steal.

Father: I'm a soldier. Soldiers fight a war.
Mother: That's not war.
Father: It's a vital part of it.

Continuity mistake: When Pavel picks up the tire from the outhouse, it is a thin tyre with vertical lines, when Bruno is swinging on the tyre a few shots later, it is a thick tyre with lines both vertical and horizontal.

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Trivia: In the book, Bruno gives Schmuel a piece of chicken, however in the movie it was changed to the roll because Asa Butterfield, the actor portraying Bruno, was vegetarian and refused to touch the chicken.

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Question: Why wouldn't Shmuel escape? It would've been very easy. He could've done it the same way he let Bruno in.

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Answer: Samuel knew the dangers of the camp and knew that trying to escape would result in death. He knows Bruno is likely to be allowed IN to the camp as he is a German and Germans are running the camp. Plus, if Shmuel did escape, where would he go? He's 8, on his own and alone in the woods.

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