Edwin Pereyra
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The Pianist tells the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman as it chronicles his life from 1939 to 1945 in Warsaw ghetto during Germany’s occupation of Poland. Adrien Brody plays the classical pianist in what is to become a career defining performance.
Roman Polanski sidesteps the melodrama and presents his narrative in a matter-of-fact kind of essay. Others will not care for the main protagonist’s passive approach to the events unfolding around him. However, such approach is exactly what Polanski intended as Szpilman is presented not as a hero or someone who wants to make a change but rather as a man who just wants to survive in a very unfriendly world.
The Pianist is a work of art and perhaps Polanski’s most personal film yet. The images detailed in this 2-½ hour film are the ones that leave a lasting impression on its viewers. It is a monumental film that triumphs for its visual artistry, its epic scope and most of all, for its human story.
~Edwin
Roman Polanski sidesteps the melodrama and presents his narrative in a matter-of-fact kind of essay. Others will not care for the main protagonist’s passive approach to the events unfolding around him. However, such approach is exactly what Polanski intended as Szpilman is presented not as a hero or someone who wants to make a change but rather as a man who just wants to survive in a very unfriendly world.
The Pianist is a work of art and perhaps Polanski’s most personal film yet. The images detailed in this 2-½ hour film are the ones that leave a lasting impression on its viewers. It is a monumental film that triumphs for its visual artistry, its epic scope and most of all, for its human story.
~Edwin