Pianist
“The Pianist is a testimony to the power of music, the will to live, and the courage to stand against evil. ... Roman Polanski, the director of The Pianist, was a survivor of the bombing of Warsaw and the Cracow Ghetto. ... The Pianist is a story about life in Warsaw, Poland during World War II. Based on an autobiography written by Wladyslaw Szpilman right after the war and Polanski’s own personal recollections, The Pianist is about the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman (played by Adrien Brody), a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust by hiding from Germans and scavenging for food. ... The lifestyle was rich and prosperous with minimal worries while Szpilman worked as a pianist on the Polish radio. ... Towards the end of the war he was discovered by a German officer who saved his life after hearing the starved pianist play the piano. ... The Pianist is told with surprising accuracy, mainly because it is directly based on the documentary written by Szpilman right after the war. ... A scene that stood out in The Pianist was the time of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ... However, as depicted in The Pianist, the spirit of the Warsaw Jews, especially those who participated in the Warsaw Uprising, as well as the survival story of Szpilman, shows not only the destruction of the Jews during the Holocaust but also their will, passion, and bravery to survive.