I read this book some 50 years ago,,It was one of those life changing moments after reading it.I have been wandering why no one has made a movie out of this book..After googling it I am so surprised one has been made with Harvey Keitel ,,brilliant .cant wait to find it and watch it.
I read this book many years ago as a boy of 8 y.o. and that was some years after my parents divorce. I have always identified with the Bird. I was not well received by my mothers family after the divorce. Even though I was one of them, I was seen as no good and not one of them. I've read and reread this book many times and always come away from the book feeling as though I have just relived many parts of my past. Never knew there is a movie. Thrilled to have found this
I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short stories at that age… in very different circumstances, but I can understand how much a book can influence a person at that age… I was literally seeing the images I read about.
I really like the Priest character. He really cared for the boy so much, and when he sensed that something was wrong he wanted him to come back to church to make sure he was okay because he suspected the creep the kid was with was bad.
He sold him to that man.... Rewatch the movie and pay attention. In exchange the man paid him in bootlegged liquor, and only after seeing the boy cower in the corner not allowed to speak to the priest, did the priest tell the man "I think it's time you come back for confession." They couldn't make it anymore clear if they tried. *Confession* . Priests know everybody's dirty secrets. Once he was forced to confront the horrible effect this POS had on that innocent child he sold off, in person while doing business with the man, he did nothing. All he said was, "he needs to start going to church again and you need to go to confessional," then left with arms full of alcohol which I thought priests weren't even supposed to drink. The priest's one and only answer to this torture was: BE MORE CATHOLIC. CONFESS. GO TO CHURCH. And while it's invisible to *you* he used that child's dire situation & trauma to forcibly convert him to Catholicism, no less. You like people who prey on the vulnerable? Who appear like "saints" because they're dying of teburculosis? He was working with the Germans FFS!! First scene with Priest is Germans handing the kid off to him, once they decided to let him live a little longer. They pushed the Priest around a bit because the occupier always needed to show they held all the power, not some local religious leader. And while we're at it, look-up the relationship between Mussolini and the Vatican. Mussolini United Italy under one nation *because* that's what the Vatican wanted in exchange for literally putting him in power. Ever since, the entire country has been Catholic and under Vatican control, not just Vatican City as before Mussolini. They worked with the Germans throughout to suppress the Spanish uprising, put Franco in power (handpicked by that German Chancellor whose name's censored on RUclips), agreed to send Italian troops into Spain to win the Spanish Civil War for the Fascists, Pope Pius XI himself was GERMAN & watched as Jewish Italian children were driven thru Vatican City in truckloads to camps, kids waving at the complicit crowd watching emotionless as these confused kids had no idea where they were going. There were fully operational camps inside Italy since at least 1933, and after the war, the Vatican "ratlines" smuggled German War Criminals to Argentina. The worst of the worst escaped war tribunals thanks to the Catholic Church & the Pope. Don't even get me started on the Polish Catholic Church pre & post WWII. *Kelci Pogrom* ring a bell?! Look it up. But none of this matters to Italians and Poles because they haven't grown or changed their ways - but at the very least they should be able to spot a storyline that clearly depicts a priest selling-off a child to a known predator 🙄
I read the book once, a couple of years ago. In the nothing-to-be-proud-of top 3 of the most gratuitous books I've ever read. Part of me wants to see the film just to hear interslavic: I have some competence in Polish, so some of what they said here was comprehensible to me without the subtitles. However, even this scene looks so bleak, I think I'll give it a miss.
@@debra1363 Its one hundred percent fiction. Jerzy openly admitted the book was completely fictional once it got published. He spent the war, safe with a Polish family and was never mistreated.
@@stxfdt1240 this book is fiction. It is not based on Jerzy's life experiences during the war. He originally stated it was autobiography but recanted once his story didn't match.
I read this book some 50 years ago,,It was one of those life changing moments after reading it.I have been wandering why no one has made a movie out of this book..After googling it I am so surprised one has been made with Harvey Keitel ,,brilliant .cant wait to find it and watch it.
It's on Hulu
I read this book many years ago as a boy of 8 y.o. and that was some years after my parents divorce. I have always identified with the Bird. I was not well received by my mothers family after the divorce. Even though I was one of them, I was seen as no good and not one of them. I've read and reread this book many times and always come away from the book feeling as though I have just relived many parts of my past. Never knew there is a movie. Thrilled to have found this
I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short stories at that age… in very different circumstances, but I can understand how much a book can influence a person at that age…
I was literally seeing the images I read about.
I really like the Priest character. He really cared for the boy so much, and when he sensed that something was wrong he wanted him to come back to church to make sure he was okay because he suspected the creep the kid was with was bad.
That’s not app the priest wanted with the little boy
He sold him to that man.... Rewatch the movie and pay attention. In exchange the man paid him in bootlegged liquor, and only after seeing the boy cower in the corner not allowed to speak to the priest, did the priest tell the man "I think it's time you come back for confession." They couldn't make it anymore clear if they tried. *Confession* . Priests know everybody's dirty secrets. Once he was forced to confront the horrible effect this POS had on that innocent child he sold off, in person while doing business with the man, he did nothing. All he said was, "he needs to start going to church again and you need to go to confessional," then left with arms full of alcohol which I thought priests weren't even supposed to drink.
The priest's one and only answer to this torture was: BE MORE CATHOLIC. CONFESS. GO TO CHURCH. And while it's invisible to *you* he used that child's dire situation & trauma to forcibly convert him to Catholicism, no less. You like people who prey on the vulnerable? Who appear like "saints" because they're dying of teburculosis? He was working with the Germans FFS!! First scene with Priest is Germans handing the kid off to him, once they decided to let him live a little longer. They pushed the Priest around a bit because the occupier always needed to show they held all the power, not some local religious leader.
And while we're at it, look-up the relationship between Mussolini and the Vatican. Mussolini United Italy under one nation *because* that's what the Vatican wanted in exchange for literally putting him in power. Ever since, the entire country has been Catholic and under Vatican control, not just Vatican City as before Mussolini. They worked with the Germans throughout to suppress the Spanish uprising, put Franco in power (handpicked by that German Chancellor whose name's censored on RUclips), agreed to send Italian troops into Spain to win the Spanish Civil War for the Fascists, Pope Pius XI himself was GERMAN & watched as Jewish Italian children were driven thru Vatican City in truckloads to camps, kids waving at the complicit crowd watching emotionless as these confused kids had no idea where they were going. There were fully operational camps inside Italy since at least 1933, and after the war, the Vatican "ratlines" smuggled German War Criminals to Argentina. The worst of the worst escaped war tribunals thanks to the Catholic Church & the Pope. Don't even get me started on the Polish Catholic Church pre & post WWII. *Kelci Pogrom* ring a bell?! Look it up. But none of this matters to Italians and Poles because they haven't grown or changed their ways - but at the very least they should be able to spot a storyline that clearly depicts a priest selling-off a child to a known predator 🙄
@@Groovy_Bruce What a disgusting comment
📽Looks great! 🎬Love Harvey! 🎞
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Damn 😲
I read the book once, a couple of years ago. In the nothing-to-be-proud-of top 3 of the most gratuitous books I've ever read. Part of me wants to see the film just to hear interslavic: I have some competence in Polish, so some of what they said here was comprehensible to me without the subtitles. However, even this scene looks so bleak, I think I'll give it a miss.
Is this based on their book? Won't be easy watching. I doubt it was easy writing.
Fiction
It's not fiction it's the true story of author Jerzy Kosinskiy's childhood hiding from the nazis.
@@debra1363 Its one hundred percent fiction. Jerzy openly admitted the book was completely fictional once it got published. He spent the war, safe with a Polish family and was never mistreated.
@@mirekpilsudski what
@@stxfdt1240 this book is fiction. It is not based on Jerzy's life experiences during the war. He originally stated it was autobiography but recanted once his story didn't match.