The movie is an adaptation of the autobiography of the pianist Vladislaw Spurman. Spuermann, a Jew, though such a famous pianist, was not immune to the wave of Nazi persecution of Jews. He sold his piano to make ends meet and went into hiding to survive. On the eve of the occupation of Warsaw, he was still recording piano music on the radio. The Jewish people in Poland were constantly subjected to all kinds of demands without dignity and without the right to live, not being able to walk on the sidewalks, moving to the ghetto, being rushed to the concentration camps, having restrictions on carrying cash, not having any guarantees for their living materials, and starving to death on the roads at any time. Before he even moved to the Ghetto, he couldn't take Dorota to a coffee shop, couldn't walk in the park, couldn't sit on public **** benches, and had to stand and talk in the street. The movie shows children killed crossing the wall under the sewer, women going crazy looking for their husbands, rows of Jews lying on the ground waiting for a hole in their heads. The Nazis teased the Jews in the streets at will, shooting anyone without reason, pushing old men in wheelchairs out of windows and dropping them to their deaths. The Jews acted as the Jewish police to persecute the Jews and sold their fellow Jews household goods at high prices.
There is also warmth in the movie. The Jews who helped him escape, the man who saved him at the last minute on the train boarding the camp, the piece of candy shared by the whole family, the safe place to live given to him by the Poles, and the German officer who saves him and gives him food in the final scene. The Jews and Poles also begin to revolt.
After watching the whole movie, my heart is very shocked, I believe that the suffering and stories of the Chinese people in the Second World War must not be less than those in the movie, and I look forward to a movie like this in China.
The movie is really touching.
All well-made historical war movies are quite elaborate in terms of clothing and weapons, and The Pianist is no exception. Because you can see the German troops kicking and marching down the streets of Warsaw, the German soldiers captured in barbed wire of all kinds, and the Soviet troops who finally liberated Warsaw.
Aside from some of the familiar stuff about anti-war and humanity in this movie, I first started to pay attention to the American actor Adrien Brady, but didn't find him to be much of a breakthrough from what I've seen since.
In addition to the stuff above, the most important thing is the much-talked-about German officer professional Thomas Kretschmann. He was in the later The Assassination of Hitler, The Fall of the Reich, and both versions of Stalingrad, all as a German officer. T.K., who didn't have much camera time, eventually won over many Chinese viewers, and he grew to become a quintessential image we have of the German officer.
"The Pianist" - the light and darkness of human nature in war
"The Pianist" is based on the true autobiography of Polish Jewish composer and pianist, Wladyslaw Spurman (interested in reading the original novel), directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody, the movie depicts the story of a Polish Jewish pianist who struggles to survive like an ant during World War II, and was released on September 25, 2002 in France.
I saw this movie three times, and every time I watched it, my heart was still shocked. The whole movie is not too uncomfortable with gory scenes, but it is a true reproduction of the grief of the Polish Jews during the Second World War. Director Roman Polans won the best director award at the 75th Academy Awards for this movie. Roman Polanski was originally a French Jew, but the director of the movie held back his feelings and took a neutral stance in exposing the history of the period.
The light of humanity shines in the war, regardless of nationality or race, but the selfishness and ugliness of human nature is also a deep, bottomless well.
The main character, Spielmann, is played by American actor Adrien Braudy, whose unique appearance, with his straight nose and deep-set eyes, is particularly suited to the characteristics of the Jews, plus his solid acting skills, which are perfectly blended with the character and led to the achievement of the Oscar for the youngest actor in the history of the movie.
Spielman, a Polish-Jewish man, has a decent job at a local TV station and is a household name as a pianist. Before the war, the family lived happily ever after. But artillery fire destroys it all, destroying the hero's family, his love, including his dignity. What is particularly noteworthy in the movie is that when the Germans were about to invade Poland, the family was ready to flee, but when they heard on the radio that Britain and the United States were planning to declare war on Germany, they gave up their plans to flee. The mother even prepares a rich dinner that night to celebrate, not realizing that this unrealistic hope has brought them a shattered family. After the Germans invaded Poland, they demanded that all Jews must wear the iconic armband. My sister refused at first, but in the end, she was forced to give in, which seemed to symbolize the majority of Jews at the time, believing that taking a step back would lead to a wide open sky, not realizing that behind every step of compromise was a step closer and closer to the abyss.
The film also shows how the Jews were forced to take a step back in time, not realizing that they were getting closer to the abyss with each step they took. The film shows Jews being tortured and shot in the street, and even at night when they are eating quietly in their own homes, they may be randomly picked by the Germans and thrown down from a high building to die alive. This is the way to death, we should resist, fight back, we are outnumbered, we will have a chance to win, but there are people who oppose, the Germans need labor, they will not waste such manpower for nothing, as long as we work well, we will live. Who is right and who is wrong? The director leaves the question to our audience.
The most contradictory role in the film should be the hero Spielman's friend Yitzhak, the family is a diamond business, in order to survive to become a service for the German army and the brutalization of compatriots of the Jewish police, know that the hero of the quarantine zone warmth and food difficulties, but also sent food, hope that the hero Spielman in order to the survival of his family to join with him, but by the hero's younger brother humiliated a bit and angrily left, the hero's younger brother. Even then Yitzhak risked his life to save Spielman's brother once, and even dragged Spielman down under the eyes of the Germans when the Jews were being sent in large numbers on a death train, giving him the possibility of living again. Humanity has shone through him, but was his humanity selfish when he picked up a club and hurt his fellow man? The director likewise leaves this question to us.
The hero, Spielman, is a smooth, respected, confident, funny and charismatic man. Normal development may also have a beautiful love, but God opened a huge joke, so that this is out of reach, the hero in order to survive, in the concentration camp was whipped when holding the German trouser legs begging for mercy, just to live. Eventually he escapes with the assistance of a Jewish friend, and only with the help of a Polish friend, and hides everywhere like an ant. After all, life is tenacious, and the desire to survive stimulates the hero and helps him escape death again and again. Actor Adrien Braudy's deep eyes perfectly portrayed the pianist's tumultuous life, the plot I do not reveal too much, interested can enjoy the movie.
A Chopin's "Narrative No. 1" in G minor became a song to save the life of the hero, Spielman like a street rat hiding to look for food, just happened to run into a senior German officer, the film through a ray of light like the glory of humanity, illuminated, touched the officer's heart, the plot of the film brought to a climax. In the end, with the help of the German officer, Spielmann successfully waited until Germany was defeated and Poland was liberated by the Soviet Union, but the German officer died in a Soviet labor camp as a Nazi prisoner of war. Is he a good guy or a bad guy? I think this one is also left by the director for us to ponder on our own, there is no unique answer and no right answer.
The movie's Douban rating is 9.2, and there are various plot analyses on the Internet, some accusing the Nazis, some criticizing the Jews, and some criticizing the era, but I think these are not the meanings that the director wants to express, because they are too superficial, too simple, and too shallow. Just like 10,000 people have 10,000 Hamlets in their hearts.
I just hope the world will be peaceful and there will be no war, because war is too ugly, and human nature can't withstand the destruction of war.
I didn't reveal too much about the plot of the movie, I hope to leave you space to comment on it yourself.
This movie has a lot of details. The reason for this is that the movie is based on a true documentary work. You will get a great deal of information from it if you pay attention to the dialog of the characters, and get a general idea of the multitude of people in Europe during World War II.
This movie is very real. To say that he is real is to say that it is for those who think that this movie is too RIDICULOUS, bland and tramples on human dignity. The reason why such people have such an opinion about this movie is that I think they do not recognize the nature of the world and human nature.
Life itself is ridiculous. The human nature itself has a selfish side. When a person is running around for survival, he can disregard his dignity.
When the Nazis gently knocked on the trigger to put holes in the brains and foreheads of the Jews. When little children died with broken spines. When mothers muffled their children to death and went insane. When old men in wheelchairs are thrown alive off balconies and fall to their deaths.
When Jews revolt against Germans, Germans massacre Jews, Jews persecute Jews, Jews save Jews, Poles persecute Jews, Poles revolt against Germans, Soviets persecute Germans.
When the protagonist goes from being a polished pianist to ending up a somewhat numb outlaw just trying to survive.
You'll be surprised to realize that oftentimes, reality is complicated, war is complicated, and human nature is complicated. Nazis will also have respect for the art of helping Jewish officers, for the Nazis to sell their lives to the Jews in the persecution of their own compatriots will also save the protagonist, the same is enslaved by the Germans Poles but shouted to catch fellow Jews, in the Germans at the end of the day when the stoic and timid Poles have begun to revolt, the upper class Jews all day to go to the tavern chatting without regard to the outside of the death of their fellow compatriots.
You have to admit that what you see, is the truth. There's nothing extra to make it seem that way, or to add something else to make you continue to think - ah, the Nazis were cruel, good will triumph over evil, and hope will always outweigh disappointment!
Unfortunately, this is not the case. There is no great hope at the end of the movie, the protagonist's family may have suffered a tragic death, and that benefactor, the German officer, died at the hands of the Soviets. By this time, the protagonist has re-emerged as a polished pianist, playing Chopin's Polish Dances in a glorious concert hall.
Often, a movie doesn't need a theme, especially if it's about a social, cultural, or ethnic situation, and because reality is so complex, movies that are so desperate to assert a theme tend to feel "fake".
Throughout the movie, the protagonist is weak, a "spineless artist" despised by certain classes with lofty beliefs. I admire the protagonist, because he has excellent luck and tenacious desire to survive, and finally re-seated in the glorious concert hall, playing the Polish national Chopin dance. Behind him are dead relatives, distant lovers and missing benefactors, as well as countless Jews who died during World War II.
There's no need for ideological class critique, no need for sophistication or melodrama, and for that alone, many movies can't hope to match it. A ragged outlaw in the late-night ruins of Warsaw plays Chopin's narrative in the company of German Nazis.
Thank you for the invitation. The movie is based on a true documentary work that reflects the society of the time. Jews revolted against Germans, Germans massacred Jews, Jews persecuted Jews, Poles persecuted Jews. When the Soviets persecuted the Germans, when the protagonist went from being a polished pianist to a somewhat numb desperado just trying to survive. The Nazis will also have the officer who respects the artist, who saves the protagonist while the Nazi sell-out Jews are persecuting their own countrymen. There is no great hope for the movie's ending. The protagonist's family may have been tragically killed, and that benefactor, the German officer, died at the hands of the Soviets, when the protagonist re-emerges on the glorious musical stage, playing that Chopin dance song, and becoming a glamorous and colorful pianist. In this movie, the protagonist is a spineless, weak artist, which has a tenacious desire for life. The moment he re-enters the stage, behind him are dead relatives, distant lovers and missing benefactors, as well as countless dead Jews, the war is complex, and human nature is also complex.
The Pianist tells the story of a famous Jewish pianist on the radio who survives until the end of the war with the help of people from all walks of life and even a German lieutenant colonel after the invasion of Warsaw during World War II.
The addition of real-life events allows this anti-war movie to require few dramatic techniques to help tell the story. Just following the timeline and radiating the events surrounding the main character and how various people fared during the war is enough to give one a lot to think about. So the movie is presented in such a way that the unpacked twists and turns that are taboo in other movies, and the lack of active drive of the main character are rather not an issue in this movie.
This is a great World War II reflective movie.
Its greatness lies in the fact that the director does not portray the protagonist as a great resistance fighter, but rather tells the story of his escape from the perspective of an extremely ordinary Jew, calmly and objectively. It is often the cold cruelty that strikes people's hearts and brings them a deep shock. In the movie, watching the protagonist's escape journey, as if he were there, personally experienced the brutality of the Nazis, with a unique perspective to calmly observe the human catastrophe, to carefully understand the difficulties of survival under the desperate situation.
In 1939, Germany raided Poland, kicking off World War II, and soon the capital, Warsaw, fell.
The protagonist, Jewish-Polish pianist Szpilman, works for Warsaw Radio. The Nazi Germans, whose blood policy had not yet been fully exposed at this time, made it compulsory for all Jews to wear a distinctive Jewish armband on their right arm in order to segregate them.
The Szpilman family followed the order and lived in a temporary quarantine zone. Here, survival was a luxury, as their lives were worthless in the eyes of the Nazis and could be taken away at any time and under any pretext.
What impressed me most was that during an extremely ordinary dinner, the Nazis suddenly inspected the building opposite Pillman's seat, and through the window they saw a family eating dinner across the street, and the Nazis made an old man in a wheelchair stand up, and the old man was thrown out of the window after a fruitless struggle.
There is no extra footage or music, it's just plain as ordinary video, and a life ends.
Later, when German policy began to be brutalized, all Jews in the occupied territories were orderly sent to concentration camps for mass murder. The Szpilman family followed everyone in the quarantine zone as they prepared to go to Auschwitz.
They have no idea what they are about to face, and their hearts are filled with hope and despair, all looking forward to the next place that is better than this one and where they can survive.
As they are about to board the train, a Jewish policeman saves Szpilman and he escapes death.
But his long, beggarly flight begins...
Oh, haven't seen it!
Since I was a kid, I've seen a lot of historical war movies, but none of them gave me such a big shock as this one. I don't know if it's because I was young, so I can't perceive the cruelty of the war in the movie, or the director and screenwriter of this movie can catch my heart too much. I was extremely impressed by the movie "The Pianist". The beginning of the movie is a vintage black and white image, with a melodious piano music gradually coming from the stereo. The movie is of the war genre, and the elegant piano sound is muffled by the sound of artillery, and the elegant hero playing the piano has to flee from the gradually collapsing radio room. After that, the movie takes on the endless depressions of war. It is only by watching the movie that we can feel the cruelty of war so y. This is a movie set against the backdrop of World War II, which tells the story of the talented Jewish pianist Wladek? Szpilman during the Second World War, in order to avoid the German Nazi's pursuit of the help of friends and hide around, escape experience. He faced one Nazi hunt after another and always had a lucky escape and eventually survived the war.
I have to endure the helplessness, depression and sadness that the movie brings.
The Chopin score in the movie echoes in my head.
I will never forget the beginning of the movie when the girl playing the violin looks at Spielmann with affection. He says, "Please call me Spielmann."
And in the concentration camp, Spielmann and his family divided the candy into six pieces. The candy was not sweet but bitter in my mouth.
It played the silent piano with his fingers under the helplessness, and that song echoed ------
The saddest time was to see him playing the music with his skeleton-like hands.
And next to the silent listening German officers.
The music is so powerful that it makes you less afraid and less cruel.
The movie ends with the realization that it is raining.
I think of the sad songs I used to play on the piano when it rained. Bitterness is the best way to sublimate art. Because only through the experience of breaking bones can you play a piece of music that shakes the heart. At the end of the movie is the original recording of Spielmann