The Pianist
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Movie Reviews of The Pianist
Movie Review: The Pianist
Summary: 5 Stars
A very powerful movie, superbly acted. Very emotional and intense. Recommended for mature audiences - definitely not a teeny bopper movie. Adrien Brody gives an intense, very realistic performance. Great picture. Brings back memories of the war years that were both unpleasant and heroic.
Movie Review: A very moving experience
Summary: 5 Stars
Even more so being the true story of the wartime life of Wladyslaw Szpilman, taken from his book. The acting of Adrien Brody was impeccable as was, in fact, that of all the cast including all the old favourites like Maureen Lipman and Frank Finlay. This is a film to be kept and viewed again and again, not least to remember the atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jews in that epoch. The cruel way in which some of the Nazi officers amused themselves by forcing old and crippled Jews to dance for them was very saddening. It is rather sad that the sympathetic German officer who was kind to Wladyslaw Szpilman in the final days of the war was not recognised and his term of imprisonment reduced.Movie Review: One of the best movies ever
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. It shows very well the difficulties of the jewish population in Poland during the german occupation. One scene etched in memory is when the jewish labourers are made to wait for a long time before they are allowed to cross the road. They are worried about their jobs , about getting food on their table. The German officers , for their amusement however, make some of them dance while they wait. That was a humiliating unfeeling incident which Polanski had brought out very well.
The main story of course if about the struggle for survival by the young jewish pianist. It is a story well told and well depicted. He survives through illness, hunger and isolation and he is at last heped by a german officer. That was a heartwarming incident in the movies, the prescence of one kind german during those times surrounded by thousands who were subhuman in their cruelty. This one man had the courage to make up his own mind and follow his instinct to save a human being.
Movie Review: This is WonderfUl..
Summary: 5 Stars
A beautiful documentAtion of the human spirit amongst the degenErative conditions of the Versailles treaty which creates and created poverty and fascism in WWII (AdrIan Brody, a forced assault KIsser, does well herE..My Mama makes me prouud having survived all this..May MamA grow strong from Physical theraPY..) NAzi GermaNy. A Nazi Officer saves a Jewish Polack from the Nazi's by hiding him out in A Nazi headquarter bUilding. It sHows the beauty and the courage of both the GerMan and JewisH oneS.Movie Review: Among Polanski's Best
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the story of one man's survival of the Holocaust, but it is also a horrifying depiction of the destruction of a great city. In 1944, with the Red Army a few miles from Warsaw, the Polish Home Army rose against the Germans. Stalin ordered his troops to halt their advance until the Germans had crushed the uprising. The city was almost totally destroyed. These events are glimpsed by the protagonist as he hides in the doomed city. At one point he is literally locked in a room as a tank slowly takes aim at him. The panic and helplessness of the civilian victims of the war are summed up in this scene. Above the cruelty and destruction floats the music of Chopin. The protagonist, a concert pianist, owes his survivial and humanity to this ethereal music. It is the one optimistic note in a profoundly moving film.