Rating of
3.5/4
I can still hear Szpilman's music
BryanFury - wrote on 02/18/08
We're all are so lucky to be living in a time were people are free. Unlike those who did during the holocaust, we did not have to deal with slavery and death. The film did exactly what it was meant for, to put haunting images of what it would have been like to be right there. In that place in time where the biggest sin anyone could ever have is their faith. Being Jew almost guarantees someone a doomed fate in the hands of the ruthless SS. Summary executions are swift and vicious that you could almost feel your heart jumping inside your chest as soon as you hear a gun fire and a body falls flat on the pavement. Although there a lot of things going on right there in that period the story concentrates more on the pianist Szpilman. Brody plays this pianist and blew everyone away including me with his acting. With stunning cinematography and an absolute depressing music in the background, you can’t help but feel sad seeing all the tough things he has to go through to survive. I could almost feel how much hungry he is without food in weeks, how much desperate he was when he’s opening that can of watermelon. It was in the expression his face that tells everything, that look of sadness which transcends through the screen. Director Roman Polanski tells this story which needed to be told. Years and even decades from now anyone who will see this movie shall remember how it was like to be there. To what it would been like to be in the shoes of Wladyslaw Szpilman. How that music which he played lives on in our memories and we shall never forget.
