More than just a biography

Rating: 8/10 (7 October 2016)

I'm not quite sure if I will be able to phrase my thoughts about the movie or not, but I can easily say that this movie is one of the best movies I've ever seen. Probably I've never been touched by a movie like this one.
It's not only a biography of a great pianist, it's a documentary about a whole era, a documentary about thousands of people that suffered years ago, that lived, suffered and died, about their everyday lives and their everyday experiences.
I've read much about the second world war and I thought that I knew how it was like and how people suffered, until I saw that movie, it made me see with my own eyes what my brain couldn't imagine, the film took me back in time and space, I was in Warsaw feeling every Jewish lived there that time.
Also the movie portrayed the life and experience of Wladyslaw Szpilman flawlessly, in times I was feeling him, I was somehow suffering while I'm lying in my bed crying over someone that has already died 16 years ago.
The soundtrack fits the events perfectly, the visuals are not impressing but that actually helped concentrating on the emotional aspect.
I have never thought that a film could touch me this way, made me think about my real life now and thankful more than ever that we are living in peace and not suffering, it also made me think about all the people that suffers in our days, having a more clear picture about how wars and suffering could be like.