Outstanding

Rating: Null/10 (2 May 2004)

"The Pianist" is perhaps the best movie ever made about the Holocaust. Roman Polanski's interpretation of the story is deeper and truer than Steven Spielberg's in "Schindler's List" because Polanski was himself a survivor of the Holocaust. Spielberg only read about in history books like everyone else who wasn't there. The movie has a very authentic look and, unlike "Schindler's List" which masses all of the victims together and focuses the story on the Christian who is saving them, "The Pianist" focuses on the plight of one man and his family.
Adrien Brody's work in this movie is magnificent, well deserving of his Oscar, as Polanski was deserving of his. The movie deserved the Best Picture Oscar which it lost out on to "Chicago".