Survivor Tale

Rating: 10/10 (4 December 2009)

In the movie "The Pianist", Władysław Szpilman is a famous Polish Jewish pianist working for Warsaw Radio. Jews were exterminated and massacred under the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazis. The remaining population was humiliated, had to carry limited amount of money, and were discriminated by being forced to wear the blue Star of David, also the Nazis starved the Jews in order to exterminate as many people as quickly as they can. Finally, they put the rest in concentration camps and gassed them.
Szpilman was among the slave labors in the ghetto, but he managed to escape from German captivity. He was hiding from bunker to bunker, looking desperately for bread crumbs or even a drop of water to help him survive for the next day. Szpilman survived with the help of his friend, and luck.
Throughout the movie "The Pianist", the director Roman Polanski focused on the sadistic of the SS officers, especially when they throw out the handicap old man from the balcony because he could not salute them! Besides, the director illustrates another aspect of the movie, when he presents the passionate of the pianist, describing Szpilman playing piano.
The horrible scenes of the annihilated buildings, streets, and houses associated with the style of dressing of the 1940, gave the movie a sense of reality. The idea of the movie focused on how a human can survive using his brain, and luck is a good example of what the movie addressed. We can see that through the chances Szpilman had; he was arrested, sent to a ghetto, he escaped and got shot, and finally a German officer discovered that he was hiding, instead of killing him, he gave him food and looked after him.