The Pianist tells a true story of what happened during World War II, and does not deliberately render the pain to amplify the feelings of annoyance, with an exceptionally realistic approach to find the most calm and unemotional narrative techniques, the life of the camps have a stronger sense of immersion. But this kind of calm introspection but the effect is surprisingly good, artistry is higher.
This is a movie about a pianist's experiences during World War II, but it covers a wide range of topics. When the protagonist's entire family is put on a train, the audience can feel the consequences of their time in the camps. When the well-wishers helped the pianist like a relay, many of whom did not come to their aid in time later, one can also imagine the life and sacrifices they had to make to resist the German occupation at that time.
The film only shows the resistance of the Poles in a sideways way, without depicting the struggle of the pianist's friends, but the audience is able to experience the cruelty and intensity of the struggle. The director's handling of the film is reminiscent of the white space in Chinese painting, and it has a similar feel to it.
This is a true story of what happened. Szpilman remained in Warsaw after the war and died at the age of 88. The general's name was William Hossenfeld. During the war he aided more than fifty Jews in addition to Szpilman, and after Germany's defeat he was captured by the Russians and put in a concentration camp.
Ironically because he said he had saved Jews, he angered the Soviets who thought he was lying and died in the Soviet Union after much torture. The officer changed the pianist's fate, but not his own.
There are many other moving moments in the movie: the polite doffing of the hat of a gentleman on the verge of death, the young boy who was rescued by the pianist from under the wall but who had already died, the hungry man who snatched the porridge of an old woman and spilled it all over the place so that he lay on his back and licked it up, the young mother who choked and went mad with her crying child's hand over her head as she was being swept away by the Germans, and the family's sharing of the last piece of Milk Duds in the square.