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Title: Unsuitable for children - emotionally manipulative
Review: I rented this movie because I was deciding on whether to buy the book for my son who is 9 and 1/2 but needs books at higher grade levels to challenge his vocabulary. After being shocked by the ending, in my opinion, there is no way any child younger than high school needs to learn about history through "wishful payback emotional manipulation" of this tawdry kind. I just about threw up at the end because I related to the mother's reaction in such a personal way - she was a fabulous actress even if the story line made her seem inconsistent - I naively had no idea where it was leading till late into the movie and kept watching because I couldn't believe it would end there.But yep -that's exactly what happened. Even the friendship between the little boys (Aryan and Jew) I feel was sullied by this twisted ending which was not a voluntary act of love and friendship on either child's part. Don't support cheap tawdry emotionalism like this.
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