The Pianist (Full Screen Edition)
by Roman Polanski
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Actor: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Frank Finlay, Michal Zebrowski, Thomas KretschmannDirector: Roman Polanski
Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
Producer: Alain Sarde
Producer: Daniel Champagnon
Producer: Gene Gutowski
Producer: Henning Molfenter
Producer: Lew Rywin
Writer: Ronald Harwood
Writer: Wladyslaw Szpilman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Live, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Pianist (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: DAVID, DAVID, DAVID - HOW NAIVE ARE YOU???
Summary: 5 Stars
It staggers the mind just how naive the majority of Westerners are. Hitler WAS elected. Then HE began to make things so as no one could get him out of power and he got to have his way all the time, just like your Islamist, oops! I mean 'Christian' president Obama. When Hitler first appeared the people loved him, adored him like a movie star, if Springsteen and Oprah and Hailey had been around in the 20s and 30's they would have fawned all over De' Fuehrer, going on and on about him being the answer to all of our prayers. Hitler's only real mistake was to move things along a tad too quickly, Obama and the masters who are on the other end of his strings, or is it the other way around this time, have learned well this lesson to do things so slowly that the Davids of this world don't catch on. Build them stadiums and they will come! Did you know that less than 120 years ago, adults did not play sports, that playing games with balls and bats was believed to be something that children did to pass the time between being educated by their parents? When I was a child I thought and acted as a child, but when I became a man, I took that child out into the back garden shed and shot him dead so as I could become a man. Give them wide screen televisions with dts sound systems and all the choice food and alcohol they can comatose themselves with and they won't even notice the storm-troopers being assembled. Have them all walk around glued to their little texting devices and even though the world is blowing up around their ears, they will all be texting each other about how boring their day has been and how hot the girl-chick or boy-chook on Gossip Girl is. Huxley said Orwell got it wrong with the whole Big Brother spying on everybody thing. He said all you have to do is allow them to enslave themselves with their pleasures and desires and you can take over the world without anyone catching on. The other half that are not caught like this won't matter, they'll be too stoned on all the legal prescription medications they have become addicted too to be much of a bother. Create tribal religious activities like football or basketball, everyone wearing their colours. It doesn't matter if a man's personal life and career and marriage is slowly going down the toilet, just so long as he has a game he can tune into come the weekend, just so long as he has a team he can cheer on to the end of the season, and if they don't win, hey there's always next season. They have been studying us for a long time now, studying us with envious eyes, and oh so slowly, they have made their plans against us. Yes do watch this powerful movie, but keep one eye peeping out the crack in your curtains Westerners, because it's all about to get real 3D on us all, and just when you are thinking, wow, this dts sound systems ROCKS!, you'll suddenly realise that they just kicked down your door and are about to drag you to their newly improved concentration camps. Or hey! Maybe I'm just one of those Bible-thumping red neck crazy people with a placard around my neck screaming out in big bold print, "NO KIDDIN' FOLKS, THE END IS EXTREMELY NIGH', as I, and all of my other half-witted friends look forward with absolute glee to the end of the world as we know it. You decide!
Summary of The Pianist (Full Screen Edition)
Music was his passion, survival was his masterpiece.Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm award at the 2002 Cannes film festival, The Pianist is the film that Roman Polanski was born to direct. A childhood survivor of Nazi-occupied Poland, Polanski was uniquely suited to tell the story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew and concert pianist (played by Adrien Brody) who witnessed the Nazi invasion of Warsaw, miraculously eluded the Nazi death camps, and survived throughout World War II by hiding among the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. Unlike any previous dramatization of the Nazi holocaust, The Pianist steadfastly maintains its protagonist's singular point of view, allowing Polanski to create an intimate odyssey on an epic wartime scale, drawing a direct parallel between Szpilman's tenacious, primitive existence and the wholesale destruction of the city he refuses to abandon. Uncompromising in its physical and emotional authenticity, The Pianist strikes an ultimate note of hope and soulful purity. As with Schindler's List, it's one of the greatest films ever made about humanity's darkest chapter. --Jeff Shannon
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