The Pianist Analysis

The Pianist Review (The Pianist. December 4, 2002. Directed by Roman Polanski. Written by Ronald Harwood. Staring Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, and Michal Zebrowski.). The Pianist is a movie with an amazing historical plot and outstanding acting that helps to portray the severity of the situation. The Pianist explores the ideas of Nazism in early 20th century Poland, total war during World War II, and the war on Jews becoming more intense as the war against Germany progressed. This all led to the tragic story presented in the movie. Roman Polanski depicted that in the Warsaw Ghetto the conditions progressively got more and more like the concentration camps. Since the movie is based on Szpilman’s
In The Pianist it tells the story of a Polish Jew, a pianist, who survives many situations in the Holocaust through pure dumb luck. It recounts how the situation for Jews changed as the Nazis invaded Poland. Szpilman begins living in Warsaw and is then forced into the Warsaw Ghetto where he is separated from his family and then finds a way to escape and live in many hiding places in horrible conditions. Roman Polanski delivers a complex understanding of both the good and bad parts of living in the Warsaw Ghetto. He portrays that in the beginning it was not all that bad by showing that the guards favored some people. However, it also shows how horrible things were by showing how people were dead on the streets from hunger and men and women were killed at random in front of their families. Overall, Roman Polanski shows how the Warsaw Ghetto was an extremely horrid place for the
This was shown by the fact that Jews were only allowed to keep some money in their house, not allowed in stores, parks, and public benches, and they were hit for not bowing and walking on the sidewalk. The people were taken into the Ghetto where they were shot and whipped at random and treated like they were not human beings. Anti-Semitism also was rampant in the people. For example, when Szpilman was in the hotel the lady asked for his identity card and then yelled for people to get him when she figured out he was a Jew. Another thing was that the war against Jews became more severe as the war against Germany became more severe. This was shown when France and Great Britain were coming to fight Germany and the Jews were sent to concentration camps and ghettos very soon after. Also, how when the war got more intense the conditions in the ghettos became increasingly atrocious. The viewer can see the conditions getting worse as the movie goes on and you see this in the end when the city is devastated and he is extremely starved and broken, both physically and emotionally. I would highly recommend seeing this movie as it has an amazing plot line and informs the viewer more about the Holocaust. It also does an excellent job of using pathos to make the viewer truly understand just how horrible the conditions became in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Pianist shows the