Shocking, Hard, Amazing!

Rating: Null/10 (12 October 2002)

Sitting in the theatre, where everyone around me with eyes swollen from crying, all thinking of relatives who lost their lives in the Hollocost was strange. Have I no feelings at all? I must say I never broke a tear, untill the shot of Warsaw's remainings and the small figure of Szpilman below them. That moment, I caught myself with mouth and eyes wide open. One of the best shots ever made...
Polanski, with no boundries at all, and with the cover of Szpilman, tells us his and many other of the survivors' stories. That is why, I imagine, no one got up before the credits ceased to run and the screen went off.