in 2002,
director Romain.
Polanski starring Edlin Brody
Thomas
Kletcherman
Maybe this is really a movie that has nothing to do with piano, and maybe even has nothing to do with music. Although the piano accompanies the whole film... Some people say that he is about life, but more often the film shows us only the most basic survival; some people say that he is about freedom and dignity, but more often, we All I see on the screen is the desire to live and the fear of death.
Sometimes I even wonder if the director Polanski is a cool, over-the-top weirdo. A film that could have been very warm, but was so "cold". In "The Pianist", the so-called "hope" does not exist, all people are facing death, the Jews are dead, the "Jews" are dead, the resisters are dead, the one we once thought represented "light" The German officer who rescued the protagonist "The Pianist" also died. We see more that the protagonist is lingering and living, even not as alive as an animal. Polanski may be telling us that in the face of life, the so-called "stealing life" shame is not worth mentioning at all. Maybe he is trying to have such a way to tell us another meaning of life, so that we can understand another meaning of cherishing what you have and cherishing life from another angle.
We are used to the so-called "great" and "hero" in similar movies, but Polanski is quite stingy in this regard, we waited for the whole movie and did not wait for Mel Gibson in "Braveheart". 's arm shakes. We see the unbearable peace and silence, putting death and slaughter in front of you, as if you were standing on the ground, even as if you were standing in the hearts of those executioners and victims, you can I have a deeper understanding of what it means to kill like a mustard, and what it means to be like a dead heart...
I think anyone who has seen this movie will inevitably think of another movie like me, and his name is "Schindler's List". I don't want to compare them here because they are not comparable at all. Only technically speaking, "Schindler's List" is indeed much higher than "The Pianist". However, I may prefer this "The Pianist". There are many reasons, the first thing that comes to my mind is that he is less of a "blockbuster" than Schindler's List. I think it's important...
Polanski is more pure and candid than Spielberg in this regard, he doesn't let "this is not a list, this is life, and the world outside this list is an abyss." 's slogan-like lines appear in the movie. Of course, this does not mean that Polanski is "smarter" than Spielberg, but for those of us who appreciate the movie, maybe the former makes me have a lot of real emotions. If Spielberg is creating some illusions for a desperate reality, then Polanski's "The Pianist" is to light up hope in the sheer cruelty that is deliberately presented.
As I said before, this movie doesn't really have many big scenes that can make us feel bloody, but that doesn't mean it's a boring movie, on the contrary, in every part of the movie The light of humanity that forbears under the cruel "reality" flows in every second, but the director presents it in front of us from a very special perspective.
We grieve when the protagonist is trapped in a small apartment and suffers food poisoning from starvation, eating sprouted potatoes; and in this same apartment, when the protagonist silently runs his fingers on the keys, stroking back and forth , imagine the music flowing from your fingers. I think most people's tears will flow involuntarily.
At the end of the film, the protagonist calmly faced the so-called death. When he played the piano in front of the German officer, life and death really had no meaning to him. To paraphrase that sentence, "He is not alone! He is not fighting alone! At this moment, "Chopin, Beethoven" is possessed by the soul..." If you have seen this movie, you have seen that scene, you must laugh Don't come out...
There are many people who say that the most important thing for a movie is to look good. I said, yes, the movie must be good, but the more important thing is how to watch it, what to watch...
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