And you thought that you were having a bad four years or so… This movie was long and sad. It is a survival story of a Jewish musician during WWII in Poland. It is so crazy to know that all of this stuff happened just 60 years ago, and that it still is happening today. War sucks.

I thought that it was strangely uplifting during one scene when he was hiding in one of those temporary apartments. He heard classical music coming through the walls. He wanted to play the piano in the apartment so badly, but he had to be quiet so that he wouldn’t be discovered. So he just sat down and played along with the music he heard without actually touching the keys of the piano. His family was probably all dead, he was starving to death, and he had jaundice, but just hearing the piano and pretending to play it made him smile. It was touching.

This is the first movie I liked for the reality and I will not like to watch it again. Great movie with lovely music, watch it to see how cruel things could destroy such a romantic world!!

Few movies remain with me long after seeing them on wide screen: one of them is Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, whose simplicity and old-fashioned flavor of visuals are stunning, if not refreshing. For a movie about a Polish pianist’s escape from Nazi concentration camps, there is nothing nakedly petrifying beyond the occasional scenes of, say, someone being thrown out of a third-story balcony and such. In fact, with its lack of larger-than-life imagery, a perversely romantic feeling floats through the movie: to begin with, the heart-tugging music of Chopin (Polish, but of course!) presents itself in an environment of gloom. Even the clothes, the shop fronts, the living rooms, and the sunny Polish skies look so accessibly natural they become scary.

one of the most powerful films i have seen in a while. It’s one of those movies that you have mixed feelings about reaching the end of. At almost 2 and a half hours it is lengthy but you are so wraped up in the life of the charachter that it does not seem nearly that long. i would highly recomend this movie.

One of the most moving parts of this film for me was when the family are being held in a walled area waiting to be taken to the concentration camp and the two children who were left behind suddenly arrive and for a moment everyone is happy, even though this means they will all die together. It was strangely uplifting.