The Holocaust In The Pianist
The Second World War was an international war that took place from 1939 to 1945, a lot of countries participated in the war (including the great powers) and formed two alliances: the Axis (Germany, Italy and Japan) and the Allies (the “Big Three Leaders” were the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Soviet Union). Poland was invaded by the Nazi Germany in 1939, and was defended by the Allies. During the invasion of Poland, the Jews were persecuted, maltreated and deported to extermination camps.
All these situations that the Jews had to experience during the Jewish Holocaust in the WWII are shown in the film The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2003) from the point of view of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jew pianist …show more content…
After these scenes and some other ones, the viewer ends associating the protagonist with the music. The music helps the protagonist to forget about his problems and it appears when everything seems to be better, for example, it appears in the scene where Szpilman feels safe in a new home while he is escaping, he sees a piano, and he starts moving his fingers as if he was playing the piano, then he gets lost in the music’s world, he stops thinking about everything for a moment. Another scene where the music is important is where Szpilman is hiding in the ruins of Warsaw and a German officer finds him, the officer asks him what is his job and when he says he used to be a pianist, the officer asks him to play something, in this scene Szpilman doesn’t know if he can trust the officer and neither do we, so he is playing but he doesn’t know if he is going to die when he finishes, so during this song Polanski creates suspense, because we don’t know if the officer is going to help …show more content…
For example the film Schindler’s list (Steven Spielberg, 1993), although both films are quite personal, because Spielberg’s family was Jewish and Polanski’s parents died in a concentration camp, and both films show the horrors of the Holocaust, Spielberg’s film wants to be more optimistic than Polanski’s film. Another difference is the use images in black and white, Spielberg’s film is all in black and white, but Polanski’s film is in color, except the first scenes when everything in Warsaw is fine, Polanski said in an interview that he thought about filming in black and white, but that he finally didn’t do it because he realized it would be more natural if he used
All these situations that the Jews had to experience during the Jewish Holocaust in the WWII are shown in the film The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2003) from the point of view of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jew pianist …show more content…
After these scenes and some other ones, the viewer ends associating the protagonist with the music. The music helps the protagonist to forget about his problems and it appears when everything seems to be better, for example, it appears in the scene where Szpilman feels safe in a new home while he is escaping, he sees a piano, and he starts moving his fingers as if he was playing the piano, then he gets lost in the music’s world, he stops thinking about everything for a moment. Another scene where the music is important is where Szpilman is hiding in the ruins of Warsaw and a German officer finds him, the officer asks him what is his job and when he says he used to be a pianist, the officer asks him to play something, in this scene Szpilman doesn’t know if he can trust the officer and neither do we, so he is playing but he doesn’t know if he is going to die when he finishes, so during this song Polanski creates suspense, because we don’t know if the officer is going to help …show more content…
For example the film Schindler’s list (Steven Spielberg, 1993), although both films are quite personal, because Spielberg’s family was Jewish and Polanski’s parents died in a concentration camp, and both films show the horrors of the Holocaust, Spielberg’s film wants to be more optimistic than Polanski’s film. Another difference is the use images in black and white, Spielberg’s film is all in black and white, but Polanski’s film is in color, except the first scenes when everything in Warsaw is fine, Polanski said in an interview that he thought about filming in black and white, but that he finally didn’t do it because he realized it would be more natural if he used