power of food vs power of music

Rating: Null/10 (11 May 2003)

"The Pianist" gave me strong impression. I recall many movies that describe the persecution of the Jew under Nazism: Shindler's List, Diary of Anne Frank, Sophie's Choice, Divided We Fall, Life Is Beautiful, and Gloomy Sunday. Common to those movies is humanity under outrageous rampage and tragedy. From "The Pianist", two things came into my mind. 1) Why the pianist could survive? Not only he was lucky, but because he was loved, or there were many people who thought this pianist should be saved.
2) The gap between his starvation and music. Most of the time he was caught to seek something eatable. He was like an animal. But once he was told to play by a Nazi captain, in the beginning his playing was awkward but soon he resumed to be a great musician. After the movie ended I was surprised it was a very long movie. I rate this 5 of 5.