Wednesday, 6 August 2014

The Pianist

A truly fantastic Roman Polanski film about a Pianist in Nazi Germany.
As a musician i was fascinated by the movement of his hands, but lets not take anything away from the film itself. It's a moving film, in a similar way to life is beautiful except that he doesn't die.

This film is about how the pianist managed to stay in Nazi Germany throughout the war until the Russians invaded. He was helped by a German Captain when he was close to death and he is rescued by the polish forces once the germans have fled.
His friend who was a prisoner of war meets the German Captain who has himself become a prisoner of war when he is released from prison and he goes back with the pianist to find this guy but they can't. The pianist does have a name- it's just that I can't spell it, so I haven't tried.
You feel for him throughout his struggles in which he has to run away from burning buildings and gets shot at a few times. His bravery and determine is honourable.

Adrien Brody's performance is breathtaking.
This film won 3 Oscars and 2 BAFTAs' and it was well deserving of the awards that it won. It's not the type of film that you would watch over and over again but it's not the type of film that you would forget either. It's like The Boy In The Striped Pajamas and Life is Beautiful- the topic makes it very hard to forget those films.

I take my hat off to the cast.

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