The Holocaust In The Film The Pianist
The Second World War was an international war that took place from 1939 to 1945, a lot of countries participated in the war (including the great powers) and formed two alliances: the Axis (Germany, Italy and Japan) and the Allies (the “Big Three Leaders” were the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Soviet Union). Poland was invaded by the Nazi Germany in 1939, and was defended by the Allies. During the invasion of Poland, the Jews were persecuted, maltreated and deported to extermination camps.
All these situations that the Jews had to live during the Jewish Holocaust in the WWII are shown in the film The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2003) from the point of view of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jew pianist that escapes and hides from the Nazis in order to survive. The movie is the witness of Szpilman so we can see what he saw and what happened to him. In the film you can see how the life of the Jews change in a moment, our protagonist was playing the piano in a radio of Warsaw when suddenly German bombs started to fall, from this moment, his life and the life of many other Jews become a nightmare. Using the perspective of the protagonist, Polanski …show more content…
For example the film Schindler’s list (Steven Spielberg, 1993), although both films are quite personal, because Spielberg’s family was Jewish and Polanski’s parents died in a concentration camp, and both films show the horrors of the Holocaust, Spielberg’s film wants to be more optimistic than Polanski’s film. Another difference is the use images in black and white, Spielberg’s film is all in black and white, but Polanski’s film is in color, except the first scenes when everything in Warsaw is fine, Polanski said in an interview that he thought about filming in black and white, but that he finally didn’t do it because he realized it would be more natural if he used
All these situations that the Jews had to live during the Jewish Holocaust in the WWII are shown in the film The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2003) from the point of view of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jew pianist that escapes and hides from the Nazis in order to survive. The movie is the witness of Szpilman so we can see what he saw and what happened to him. In the film you can see how the life of the Jews change in a moment, our protagonist was playing the piano in a radio of Warsaw when suddenly German bombs started to fall, from this moment, his life and the life of many other Jews become a nightmare. Using the perspective of the protagonist, Polanski …show more content…
For example the film Schindler’s list (Steven Spielberg, 1993), although both films are quite personal, because Spielberg’s family was Jewish and Polanski’s parents died in a concentration camp, and both films show the horrors of the Holocaust, Spielberg’s film wants to be more optimistic than Polanski’s film. Another difference is the use images in black and white, Spielberg’s film is all in black and white, but Polanski’s film is in color, except the first scenes when everything in Warsaw is fine, Polanski said in an interview that he thought about filming in black and white, but that he finally didn’t do it because he realized it would be more natural if he used