He is a simple man that is doing everything in his power to stay alive. He is not a hero, he is not a rebel and he is not a kamikaze type that wants and lusts after revenge. I think many people have touched on this before but what makes this film so amazing and well crafted is because Spielzman is a man that we can all relate to. The Pianist follows up and coming piano player Wlad Spielzman from his days as a local hero to a prisoner of war to his time in the ghettos, surviving only by the kindness of strangers. They handed out the statue to the wrong movie. Sorry for the digression here but when you compare a "film" like Chicago to a masterpiece like The Pianist, there really is one clear cut winner. I believe that the Oscar's are rigged for the most part and films and actresses and such win based more on their pedigree or business associations than anything else, so when it won best actor and director and adapted screenplay this year, it tells you that it should have won best picture but the Weinsteins seem to have a spell over everyone, hence a charlatan like Chicago takes top prize. I think the fact that this won the awards that it did at this years Oscars goes a long way to validate the brilliance of this film. Roman Polanski has proved that he is a great director with films like Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby but this is his crowning achievement. But in a nutshell, it moved me, made me cry, made me feel like I was in the Polish ghetto in 1940, and ultimately made me kiss the sidewalks as I walked out of the theater and thanked God that I live in the free society that I do. This is one of the best films I have ever seen and what it did to me I cannot describe in words. I had my preconceived notions that it would be some other heroic Jewish Holocaust film where good triumphs over evil and in between we would see some brutal atrocities committed by the Germans to add some flavour. I can remember when this film came out I was adamantly against seeing it.
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