Accuracy

Rating: Null/10 (30 July 2006)

There is a scene in the beginning of The Pianist when the Jewish father is walking down the street and passes two Nazis. They call him over and rough him up for not bowing as he passed them and walking in the gutter. I believe when they call him over though they use the polite or formal form of the word for "you" in German which is "Zie." I can't imagine Nazis using the formal form when addressing Jews. It seems like they more likely would have called him over by using the word "Du"-which is the impolite or informal version of the word. While this might not seem like a big deal, the film was so overwhelmingly accurate with meticulous attention paid to detail, that I found this oversight incongruous with the rest of the film. I'm surprised Roman Polanski, the director, Holocasut survivor, and fluent in several languages didn't pick this up.