Haunting.

Rating: 9/10 (9 July 2005)

This film was perfect...so why did I not give it a perfect 10? Well, the realistic and haunting feel makes me love this film, but hate to watch it. When I watched this for the first time, I realised that this was one of the most realistic films I had ever seen. To think that it was based upon a true story was sickening. That actually happened.
I love this film because they do not hold back on anything, however disturbing it may be, this makes the film real. It doesn't hold back on Adrien Brody struggling to escape from a building in the process of being bombed, it doesn't hold back on the feeling of "Oh. My. God." when you see the tin rolling towards the German Soldier's feet and it certainly doesn't hold back on the true horror of World War Two.
This film makes it clear that survival is possible. Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) wasn't wiped out by the Holocaust. He wasn't forced into gas chambers in concentration camps. Wladyslaw Szpilman survived the war, and lived on into the 21st Century.
A masterpiece.