☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
The Pianist (2002) -- R. Polanski
Adrian Brody gives a
stunning and remarkably "internal" performance (because for half the
movie he has no one to talk to) as a survivor of the Holocaust in Polanski's
haunting remembrance of his youth (in the guise of telling Wladyslaw Szpilman's
story). The Nazis roll into Poland and
from then on the movie is one relentless and harrowing slide into
darkness. This is gut-wrenching stuff
made all the more so because it is based on true events-- the world really was
that evil 70 years ago. And, yes,
humankind is still capable of perpetrating such evil even today. I think I can hear deeper emotions in the
playing of the piano just knowing the pianist's life story. But can you hear them if you don't know?
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