Alice has a very standard
plot — Wasikowska has an unpleasant future waiting for her in
reality, will her experiences in Wonderland somehow edify and empower her to
deal with them?
Review contains
plot spoilers: The Boy In The Striped Pajamas is presented as a fable, flagging to the reader up front that one is expected to disengage ones normal sense of
reality and accept the story as given, but in this instance, when
dealing with such an emotive, well recorded and historically recent subject as the Holocaust, this is difficult to do.