Holocaust picture starring Adrien Brody that hits all the right notes. The Pianist's violence is heightened by the film's slow tempo and director Roman Polanski's refusal to leave any of the grisly details out. The film is an uncomfortable, discordant and unsettling look into the life of Brody's character, who is forced to leave his family and struggles to survive by working for the Nazis. His plight is speckled with horror, as he finds himself caught up in all sorts of conflict that seems almost hopeless. Brody carries the film, remaining one of the last links to moralistic humanity that we can count on. His ability to portray his survival as luck, and not as a sort of Chosen One, gives grim reality to the situation.
Not a film for the faint of heart - The Pianist does not overlook the terrors of war or the murderous nature of the Nazi regime, and many times it will have you writhing in anger at the atrocities. Unfortunately, this time we cannot tell ourselves it is only a movie. A must-watch film, and though it does touch on some of the same themes as other Holocaust films, it does not lessen the impact, or the story.
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