The Pianist

A man who survived under the darkest hour of the mankind

A man who did not give up his soul and life under the irrational brutality of the mankind

A pianist who lost all of the priceless things except passion on his talent

During WWII, a lot of people died anonymously simply because of ideologies, norms, concepts and powers which led whole society to irrationality and wildest massive massacre. The movie that I am going to cover is about a story about the Jew pianist who survived from those harsh conditions and spent the rest of his life with suffering from losses of the war and genocide against the Jews, that is Holocaust. Today, rather than focusing the music itself, I would like to focus on a pianist’s life and humanity.

The movie is based on the true story of the Jew pianist named Szpilman who came through the holocaust. After he died in 2000, his son made public Szpilman’s diary so the movie could be made based on his diary during the WWII period. The film starts with Szpilman’s playing on the Polish radio station. He was the promising pianist in Poland but his life changed completely after beginning of the WWII by the Nazi German attacked Poland. He lost people he loves and went around hiding from the Nazi’s observation. One day, he captured by German military officer and be asked to play the piano. Szpilman played the piano with all his soul and might because he thought it could be the last time of his playing. However, the officer released him and after the war, Szpilman tried to find the officer but he found out the German officer was captured in the Soviet labor camp.

Unlike the other movies that cover WWII focus the war itself, the pianist focuses people’s sorrows and losses from the war by showing one Jew pianists’ harsh life. The movie makes me to come up with some questions; Why did those people need to be suffered, What things that can be acquired from the war, are those things more valuable than the losses of lovers and humanity?