The Pianist

While I was on holidays during Christmas, I got this DVD. I think I got confused between the ‘The Pianist’ and ‘La Pianiste’.
But I was not disappointed. I have seen quite a few movies on the holocaust like Life is beautiful, one movie on Hallmark and the HBO mini series Band of Brothers. This movie was different. It was very violent and gruesome like most holocaust movie, but at the same time it was very much unlike others. It traces a life of a man who plays the piano of the polish radio. We see how the nazi segregate the Jews and how this slowly ends up in ethnic cleansing. But the whole while it centers around the pianist. How he struggles survive. The performance by Adrien Broody is outstanding. And the way the movie is short is amazing. I would recommend it to everybody. Why I say that the movie is different is because it shows a man trying to survive by doing the most basic things, being inconspicuous. He is not trying to be a hero, he just wants to get by and hopes that it will all end someday and he can get to living life with dignity.