The Painted Bird

A short Book Title I've created. The book called The Painted Bird, written by Jerzy Kosiński, and it's tells the tale of a young jewish boy wondering the polish forests during WWII. It's like a movie opening title but instead doing it for a movie, it's for a book...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• book
• painted
• bird
• sad
• bob
• Jerzy
• Kosiński

[disposition073]

Amazing! Just like I imagined in the book

[orelbob]

@disposition073 - Thank you! It's really nice to hear that :)

[breeeegs]

This is pretty amazing. The Painted Bird is one of the most horrific and disturbing stories I've ever read, even by the standards of Holocaust literature. But its so vivid and haunting that you feel compelled to keep reading till the end. Kosinski shines a light on the darkest depths of evil and there doesn't seem to be much hope, except for a painted bird soaring through the sky. But you have captured the atmosphere very well in your video

[orelbob]

@breeeegs

Thnx man!

[dontgetanyolder]

this is beautiful. I'm enamored with how well it;s done!

The Painted Bird is my favorite book. for the way he wrote, not for the actuality of the situation. The people who are most inclined to focus on whether or not the book was an actual holocaust account are missing the depth and beauty of the story. True or not, the book was amazing.

[orelbob]

Thank you!

I agree that it doesn't matter if the book is true or not. It's what you take from it...

And this is what I took (among other things...)

So... Thank you for loving it!

[znikacz]

@natlehmann "The Kosiński family survived the Holocaust thanks to local villagers who offered assistance to Jewish Poles, often at great personal risk (the penalty for assisting Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland was death). Kosiński's father received help not only from Polish town leaders and churchmen, but also from individuals such as Marianna Pasiowa, a member of the Polish underground network helping Jews evade capture." (from Wikipedia)

[PaintedBirdIII]

The boy being jewish is implied but never staten for a fact in the book itself. And no one having read the book could possibly see a painted bird soaring through the sky as a sign of hope. What's to hope for, being plucked by one's own kind?

The book is one of my favorites and I agree the realistic, historic 'truth' does not matter. Truth has been worse as anyone could possibly catch in words alone. The story is a universal one and can be translated back to many a life.

[breeeegs]

My great-grandparents and my great-uncle were all murdered by the nazis. My great uncle was only an infant, and he was shot to death along with his mother. My great-grandfather, who was a leader of the community, was taken away and never seen or heard from again

[breeeegs]

no problem

[breeeegs]

I think the book is ambiguous about whether or not the boy is a Gypsy or a Jew. Ultimately I don't think it matters that much, the point is that he is an outcast, the painted bird being torn apart by the other birds. He is constantly the victim of ignorance and superstition, and I think this is Kosinski's way of showing the mindset of those who committed the Holocaust

[Lambieschmoo]

@HaveHeardAllTheLies Then where did my grandparents-in-law go?? And all of my friends' grandparents? A whole generation of a particular culture are gone just to perpetuate a hoax? Your hatred is going to eat you up inside

[ferrolle]

Sorry but I read Painted Bird in Dutch and English but I can't really not remember that the author actually tells in the story that this unfortunate boy is a jewish boy, must read again, and then again, the book is about someone who is alianated from his background and therefore helpless and depending on others, that as always take advantage of the situation, thats humanity, raw and unforgiven, thats Kosinski, the great romantic cultural philosopher, and above all, human first...