Intense

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2004)

This movie was fabulous! One of the top 10 for me. History was never one of my strong subjects nor am I interested in making into one... so any if there are any inaccuracies I won't notice.
The imagery is powerful, moving and intense without being overly graphic, vulgar or gory. The history of these crimes is a horror and there is no way to convey the true feeling of being there.
I love the perspective of the movie through the pianists eyes'... he is part of so many circles; the artist... the family member... Polish... and just plain human!
I squirmed in my seat, felt uncomfortable and quietly reflected on the grotesque behaviour of the Germans.
Today we get upset, whine, complain, and throw hissy fits while waiting in a line-up at the bank, or the movie theatre. The Polish people lived through an atrocity...
movies like this give me something to ponder when I am feeling full of self-pity and lose my perspective! There's nothing that can possibly be wrong in my life that won't work itself out and will not be anywhere as cataclysmal as to what someone like Wladyslaw Szpilman lived through!