The Pianist (Full Screen Edition)
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Movie Reviews of The Pianist (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: CAPTURES WHAT OTHERS HAVE MISSED
Summary: 5 Stars
THOUGHT I'D SEEN MY SHARE OF WW2 MOVIES AND THOUGHT TOO, I WOULDN'T BE AS MOVED AS I WAS WHEN FINALLY VIEWING IT NOW IN 2007 . WELL, THAT WAS ALMOST MY LOSS. I FOUND TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY FACE . IT WAS TOO REAL . I DON'T THINK I CAN WATCH IT AGAIN BUT, I SHALL NEVER FOREGET THIS MOVIE AND WHEN MOVIES ABOUT THE SECOND WORLD WAR OCCUPATION COME UP I SHALL VOICE LOUDLY MY RECOMMENDATION TO SEE THIS AT LEAST ONCE .
IT SHOWS THE BEST OF MAN AND THE WORSE OF MAN WHEN LEFT TO HIS OWN DEVICES . WE ARE " MASTERS OF OUR FATE, WE ARE THE CAPTAINS OF OUR SOULS" ( william earnest henley ) . WE SHOULD ALL THINK AND CHOOSE WISELY BEFORE HARMING OTHERS . BRODY WAS EXCELLENT IN THE STARRING ROLE . BEST CHOICE.
Movie Review: The Pianist
Summary: 5 Stars
I asked to receive the DVD via regular mail and I received it in 3 days!
The Pianist is a great movie about survival you can feel what the character in the movie feels.
Movie Review: Surviving destruction and genocide
Summary: 5 Stars
The Pianist is the true story of the struggle to survive the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto of Polish Jewish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman.
It tells how he survived against the odds , hiding in various parts of the city , before his life was saved by a German officer , who despised the Nazis brutality and genocide , a true righteous gentile , Captain Wilm Hosenfeld.
Unlike many personal holocaust accounts , which are of concentration and death camps , this one is an account of life and death in the Warsaw ghetto.
The movie portrays life and death in the ghetto : the disease , the starvation and the Nazi mass murders of hundreds of thousands of men , women and children. The imagery of the ghetto is brough to life, with heartrending scenes of the Jews being herded into and out of the ghetto and of Nazi brutality. REcreated scenes, will stay with the viewer, like a young woman being shot in the head for asking the Nazi guard where the Nazis are taking them, a mother holding a small boy who is dying of thirst, and begging for water for her child.
A little girl, holding an empty bird cage, and crying because she cannot find her family.
Roman Polanski has showed his flare for directing once again, and brilliant acting by Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman, Emilia Fox as his gentile female friend Dorota, and Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld.
A story of one man's quest for survival, among the cruel genocide of millions.
Movie Review: art among the ruins
Summary: 4 Stars
Directed by Roman Polanski, this film recounts the true life story of the Polish Jew and classical pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, and how through sheer luck and gritty determination he survived the Holocaust.Movie Review: Images of Progressive Dehumanization and Suffering...
Summary: 5 Stars
Neither a documentary nor a story of fictional characters set in a historical setting, The Pianist is the dramatization of the true survival story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish pianist from Warsaw who died in 2000 and who can be seen and heard in the DVD Special Features. There are some things that come off more powerfully in this true drama format than in documentary testimonials, and particularly notable with The Pianist is the educative value of observing through time the stages of dehumanization against the Jews in Poland.
In the early part of the movie, an ominous feel develops as there is a move from "No Jews Allowed" signs to the requirement of wearing identifying Star of David armbands, to daily abuse on the street by "ordinary" people, the complicity of a Polish police force, the announcement that Jews would be expelled from neighborhoods, the confiscation of property, being forced into an overcrowded apartment and worse later, the walls of the ghetto going up, selection for forced labor, family survival by divvying up a tiny candy, gunshots to the head on whim, failed attempts of children to smuggle food...and yet still there was not utter despair, and still family members had each other...there were lineups where some were selected to step forward to be shot on the spot, bodies to be stepped over, starvation, and then Szpilman watching as his family was herded into railroad cars for deportation as he was pulled back and saved by a Jewish policeman.
From that point, Szpilman goes in and out of the ghetto to labor, and in so doing aids in smuggling in handguns for a planned Jewish resistance...but then he decides to escape the ghetto and not return. Adrian Brody is thoroughly convincing in his role as Szpilman, and the degree of suffering is increasingly apparent in Brody's face and gait. Continuing on with Szpilman's story we watch from Szpilman's hiding place as some Warsaw Jews resist, their molotav cocktails and guns no match for the tanks and flamethrowers. Szpilman escapes death on more than one occasion, and even the helpful non-Jews aren't so helpful. The burnt and gutted city panoramas, the bodies in pools of blood, the emaciation and disease, all these images...they hit, perhaps enduringly, in a place that a black and white photo montage with accompanying testimonials, valuable in its own way, just doesn't.