best holocaust picture I've ever seen, Brody should win Oscar

Rating: 10/10 (21 March 2003)

As someone who has studied the Holocaust since the third grade, read countless books and seen most of the Holocaust-related films out there, I feel confident in saying that "The Pianist" is the finest Holocaust film ever made, and it deserves to win the Best Picture Oscar as well as Best Actor for Adrien Brody.
What makes this film rise above such fine efforts as "Schindler's List" is its unsparing first-person narrative. We do not flinch from the story or move to another part of the story when things get agonizing. We stay with Wadislaw Spzilman. We see how his life and the lives around him are transformed by what starts out as all-too familiar discrimination and paranoia and devolves into an inhuman cruelty that has rarely if ever been matched in history.
Seeing the Holocaust from a first-person perspective, with a master such as Polanski at the helm and such an intelligent lead is a revelation.