I don't understand...

Rating: 10/10 (14 June 2003)

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Ok..I'm not going to review this great movie in too much detail because so many other people have already done so..it is heart-wrenching and beautiful. What I don't understand is the people who claim that this movie is stereotypical, "good Jews" vs. "evil Nazis" Have these reviewers even read Szpilman's (sorry about the spelling) accounts of what happened? I've read the book, and let me tell you...the movie is almost word for word from the book. There are a few minor changes, but yes..the germans threw the elderly man in the wheelchair out the window..yes, they beat a little boy to death as he was trying to sneak back into the ghetto..I believe they severed his spine...yes, they randomly picked workers out of line and shot them in the head...etc. etc. etc. it all happened. Szpilman did not write this 30 years after the incidents...he wrote them a year or two later. Somehow I don't think his mind grew a little foggy over the details...
Also, I don't care what anyone says, there can never be enough movies made about the Holocaust...how can there be? How can we as a society ever let ourselves forget such a monstrous occurence in human history? I just don't get it....
anyways, after a long rant...the movie was absolutely amazing and it deserved the oscars it won (should have one best picture over that fluff of a movie Chicago, but that's my opinion)
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