Belongs in the horror genre

Rating: 7/10 (18 April 2003)

People laugh at horror flicks, and look for the happy ending in dramas. The Pianist is the latest in the modern onslaughts on the senses, ala Blackhawk Down and Saving Private Ryan.
In the context of Schindler's list, Shoah, and The Sorrow and the Pity, this film was left with nothing original to say. Therefore it is Polanskis self-indulgance alone that causes this film to be made. Labor of love notwithstanding, the audience is not enriched in having seen it, but is rather shell-shocked -- AGAIN.
Enough is enough. Stop the narratives on the horrors of war. People DO get it, and no, it's not going to stop the next great atrocity or war, no matter how much you bludgeon people with your ideology. 200,000 Iraqis killed by Hussein, 300,000 more killed by the USA in the two wars. Hundreds of thousands murdered in Yugoslavia breakup. Polanski, how about some art in your next project?