The Polish-French director Polanski was born in France and his parents were Jewish. Polanski himself returned to Poland before the war. His mother died in a Jewish concentration camp, and his father survived. And he himself was 8 years old, and he escaped from a twisted hole in a barbed wire fence, only to survive.
One day, Polanski got the memoirs of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. When he saw the first chapter, he felt that this subject would become his new film. As Polanski said, "The film described the real situation of that period with surprisingly objective brushstrokes, objectively to the point of almost cold and precise. In the book, there are good and bad Poles, good and bad Jews, and German People are good and bad..." He hopes that the films he makes are as close to the facts as possible, rather than typical Hollywood-style films.
After allowing Polanski to shoot, the pianist closed his eyes and slept in Chopin's music-in July 2000, he was 88 years old and could not wait for the final completion of the film.
From the beginning to the end of the film, from the perspective of a bystander to feel the damage to Poland and Polish Jews in World War II. For example, when Szpilman was initially isolated in the Jewish community, when he saw that the child smuggling food was broken alive and died, his eyes were full of helplessness and fear. At the end of the film, watching groups of Jews die in various ways, at this time, there was no extra expression in his eyes. At this time, the god of death, like a shadow, appears at any time, performing everything about death in various ways. He shuttled among them, just to survive, to survive. He knelt at the feet of the German Nazis, just to survive, to survive. As an underground party member said in the film, "It's harder to live than to die."
There is very little dialogue between the characters in the film and there is no heroic language. For helping, or being helped, people make the final record with their hearts. Szpilman was rescued several times by old friends who had taken refuge in the Nazis. Those who did not know what their fate was, the revolutionaries who made money in the name of Szpilman helped the Germanic couple who had hidden Szpilman. Jews, good and bad. Poles are good and bad. German Nazis are good and bad. Revolutionaries are good and bad.
Szpilman himself is a pianist, but the film itself does not take music as the main form of expression. But music always played a role in further highlighting the atmosphere of the film when Guan Jian. When Szpilman lived on the piano in the cafe, Szpilman was absent-minded at that time, and music was optional. When Szpilman saw a piano in the hiding place, he instinctively sat on it, and then his fingers began to flick over the keyboard, and the background music sounded. Music, in Szpilman's body, is a force for survival. When Szpilman finally faced the German military officer, he played Chopin's "Fourth Piano Ballad", from unfamiliar to skilled, from despair of life to forgetting the distance between life and death, music, and music, gave us another immortal life. The door. It entertains people in peacetime, and entertains people in wartime. Turn war hostility into a person's desire for survival.
To live is the greatest victory.
Salute to the noblest soul.
Some reflections on "The Pianist"
1. About the Jewish nation
During World War II, the number of Jews in Warsaw, Poland dropped from 500,000 to 6W. As far as the history of the entire Jewish nation is concerned, Europe has always had a tradition of persecuting the Jewish nation as an alien. From this point, it is comparable to the Chinese nation.
What is forgetting? What is memory?
During World War II, our country was also severely persecuted by Japanese imperialism. From the beginning of September 18th to the Nanjing Massacre, it has become the eternal pain of our entire nation.
But in "The Pianist", there is no hatred, no shouts, no curses. There is only humanity’s desire for survival and forgiveness of war. He faced this period of history squarely and reproduced it in various forms. After the war, the Jewish nation, for war criminals during World War II, took out a huge amount of property and wanted it all over the world. After the war, the Jewish people used the shortest time to heal the wounds, and then used their own way to tell the world who is the real strong.
2.
There is a lot of love in the movie about love.
Such as family affection. When the Szpilman family ate a piece of candy for six. Although they didn't know that what was waiting for them was death, and although they were humble and could not decide their own destiny, the piece of candy seemed to be stuck in my throat, making me unable to pronounce it for a long time.
Another example is love. In fact, the film can be made into a war romance. The beautiful Dorothy is full of affection and admiration for Szpilman. but. When the fugitive Szpilman met Dorothy again, she was pregnant with Liujia and helped Szpilman with her husband. She stood upright and sat in the room to practice the cello. Szpilman, never had any language, just stood outside and watched quietly.
In the face of war, what is love? What is love again?
I remember that there was a movie that reflected the Nanjing Massacre. In the end, it became an emotional drama.
3. Regarding the music
in death and music films, in detail, they are actually very simple music. But it is these simple music that always face death. Szpilman put his hands on the piano and called to play. When Jewish laborers were forced to sing Christmas songs on Christmas Eve, they did not express anger, not sadness, but hope. Szpilman's hand slides quickly over the keyboard. Isn't it also the best song of life?
4. About Polanski
The director of the film Polanski has always been a figure of mixed reputation. He was born in France and his parents were Jewish. During World War II, he returned to Poland. His mother died in a Nazi concentration camp, and his father survived with him. But for that period of personal experience, it is undoubtedly the pain of his life.
Spielberg invited him to make the famous film "Schindler's List", but he refused. Because for him, this history is too painful.
In 1969, his wife Sharon Tate was killed by the "Mason Party", but he himself was indifferent to this. Later, he was involved in a rape case that caused restlessness. Although he strongly denied it, he served six months in prison with the supervision of a psychiatrist. In the end, he thought that the judge would not give a fair sentence and fled while awaiting trial. , Thus became a registered fugitive of the United States in 1977. In the 20 years since then, Polanski has never returned to the United States.
A person who has experienced it personally shot "The Pianist" with such a calm lens. There is no hatred or revenge, but a piece of history is reproduced as much as possible. The pain suffered by his body and mind is very much appreciated.
5. Regarding survival
From now on, please pay attention to any form of survival. Because there is only hope when you are alive. Only by living can we wash away the humiliation of "alive". Only by living can we remember this period of history forever.
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