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The Pianist ReviewWhile the Pianist places much of the focus of an individual, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who is a pianist, the movie also depicts some of the horrors of ghetto and the atrocities committed by the Nazi's.
Szpilman, as a Jew but also only a musician, is perhaps among the most useless of people to the Germans, suitable only for hard labour for a short time. He manages to break free form the ghetto and goes in to hiding as best he can in the hope seeing the war come to an end. The movies begins with the Jews living a normal life in Warsaw in 1939, just as the Germans beging their occupation of Poland. It depicts some of the early stages of Nazi persecution of the Jews and then the eviction of their homes and temporarily resettled in the Warsaw ghetto. Szpilman and his fellows Jews are put to work but this is just too demanding for him and he knows that if he continues he will become useless as a labourer and will be shot, so he does what he thinks he has to do and that is get clear of the ghetto and the back-breaking work. When the ghetto is evacuated and the Jews are preparing to be transported to a concentration camp, Szpilman spots an opportunity to run and go in to hiding. He finds some old friends, most in the same boat, who help him to escape the clutches of the Germans and he eventually finds himself alone in an abandoned, semi-demolished urban district where he feels safe though is very short of food. |