Brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (28 October 2009)

The Pianist reduces the human being to its most basic instinct: to survive. Along the way, through excellent directing and acting, the audience is taken on a emotional roller-coaster ride. The joy of family and the love each shares. The cruelty of the dark side of human nature. The things one is willing to do and go through in order to survive. The fear of life and death. The fear within each of us that keeps us wanting to stay alive. Depressing but very real, a lot of emotion is expressed in The Pianist. At the end you will leave with a heavy heart because THIS is something like you've never witnessed before: we're too comfortable in this modern age, we have yet to experience the horrors of being war victims. But also, this movie will sharpen those humanistic qualities within us that has been washed away by the worries of money etc. in the contemporary life. This movie will make you look closely at the persons you love, tell them you love them before leaving for work each morning and this will be because you will realize that life is short and unpredictable and maybe in the next second, you will be gone so LIVE life while you can.