We watched an impacting film this week: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. It's the story of a little boy, the son of a Nazi kommandant, who strikes up a friendship across the barbed wire fence with a little Jewish boy in an extermination camp. In case you haven't watched it yet, I won't give away the end of the story, but the movie is an interesting study of the nature of prejudice... and rather a graphic illustration of how keeping secrets from those closest to you can ultimately destroy them and lead to the loss of everything that you really care about. The film-makers had made much use of vertical stripes - in the fence, on the banisters, in the trees of the forest, and in the uniforms of the camp inmates - to highlight the idea that secrets and lies can hold us prisoner just as much as prison bars can. It made me think again of the words that Jesus said in John 8 vs 32 - that if we know the truth, the truth will set us free.
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