Daunting film.

Rating: 7/10 (5 April 2011)

The pianist is like no other Holocaust film. Polanski doesn't hold back on the horrific accounts that the Jewish Poles were put through. The setting and the cinematography is breath taking. The scenes in which the main character strolls through the empty ruins of homes is nothing less that chilling.
the first half of the movie is what you would expect from a film that's telling tales from the holocaust era. Beginning with us watching and listening to the pianist, the Germans soon move in and the expected visual atrocities will be executed with defining accuracy. Some scenes are based solely on true events that Polanski was apart off as a child. Inevitably, The Pianist is going to be compared to Schindler's list and on terms off grittiness and nuance, The pianist wins by a faint margin.
One thing that bugged me were the false caricatures of the Nazi's. Yes there were some who were sadists but to label them all with that term is wrong. I say this because every Nazi you see either shoots someone cold blooded or obeys orders showing no sort of remorse. A little winch or a blinker of eye would be enough for me to rule out that this film is not trying to portray all Germans evil. Of course you have the one German towards the end but before that, the film fixated on a biased track.
Everything is told through the eyes of the Pianist and while will watch him struggle for survival through the Years, we never gather much personal characteristics of the man. All we know is that he loves the Piano and music is what keeps him going. So might argue that there a barley no story is focus on and there right. We watch him fight for his life and that enough fuel to keep this film rolling.
Brody put huge amount of effort and personal sacrifices to make sure he meticulously fulfils this role in a nobly manner. there's fewer lines than the average film but His appearance and his subtle expressions is enough to draw you in and feel for the guy.
This films ticks most of the right boxes to be rightly considered as a classic. Acting top notch and same said for the art direction and cinematography. Biased as it may be, it not a biography on the Nazi's crimes but a film that tells a true tale of a man who hid and fought for survival. Must see.