literally takes your breath away

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2013)

This film is a masterpiece, it truly is one of those films that you watch and can never ever forget. Many people have written reviews, and I agree with most of what's being said. The choice of black and white to portray the bleak, hopeless atmosphere, coupled with those few flashes of color to underline the horror and make it more personal, is just genius.
However I mostly wanted to write this review because in very few of them did I see John Williams' name. True, the acting in this film is topnotch, the direction is basically flawless, but it's the music that makes this film. Seriously I dare anyone to hear those violins crying and not cry themselves.
There is something extremely powerful in it and I truly believe that the film would not be half of what it is without it, that feeling of horror, stupor mixed with anger and outrage that I personally felt at the end of this film mainly stems from the power of the music. Of course I'm not taking anything away from the actors and the director which were all BRILLIANT , but I just felt that there hadn't been enough said about John Williams...