The Pianist Review (again)
I put this up earlier but unfortunately it has not shown up. So here it is again.
It's relaxing to just watch a normal movie that isn't another thought provoking fringe culture project that pushes the boundry of the movie experience. In fact it is actually good to see a good normal movie nowadays.
The Pianist is a movie about the famed pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who stayed in the Warshaw Ghetto through the Nazi occupation and up to it's liberation from the Russians. For a movie about a musician, it's a movie that is suprising devoid of music. In some ways I welcome the silence because it only adds to the entire movie. It adds a feeling of realism and often envokes the lonliness that Szpilman probably felt while he hid throughout the second half the movie. I also think it is a neat trick to have long periods of extreme silence, just listening to ambient sound for the sole fact that it makes us anticipate and enjoy the piano music that does eventually does come from Szpilman's fingers.
The Pianist does come off as Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List with it's realism of killings and destruction, it offers something a bit more than that...or less depending on how you see it. Because of more personal cinematography, The Pianist does play out more like a documentary as opposed to the grandiose look of Spielberg's works. A shot looking out at a broken window pane. Watching the chaos and rebellion that happens in Warshaw from a balcony. Watching bearded Szpilman's journey through a decimated Warshaw.
The Pianist isn't a film that truly stirred me. Perhaps a little since I am a piano geek to some degree, however it was a film that I really like and somehow it connected to me to make me feel that it's one of my personal fav films. Also to follow the crowd...but not too much, I give it a weak 5.0/5.0
I put this up earlier but unfortunately it has not shown up. So here it is again.
It's relaxing to just watch a normal movie that isn't another thought provoking fringe culture project that pushes the boundry of the movie experience. In fact it is actually good to see a good normal movie nowadays.
The Pianist is a movie about the famed pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who stayed in the Warshaw Ghetto through the Nazi occupation and up to it's liberation from the Russians. For a movie about a musician, it's a movie that is suprising devoid of music. In some ways I welcome the silence because it only adds to the entire movie. It adds a feeling of realism and often envokes the lonliness that Szpilman probably felt while he hid throughout the second half the movie. I also think it is a neat trick to have long periods of extreme silence, just listening to ambient sound for the sole fact that it makes us anticipate and enjoy the piano music that does eventually does come from Szpilman's fingers.
The Pianist does come off as Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List with it's realism of killings and destruction, it offers something a bit more than that...or less depending on how you see it. Because of more personal cinematography, The Pianist does play out more like a documentary as opposed to the grandiose look of Spielberg's works. A shot looking out at a broken window pane. Watching the chaos and rebellion that happens in Warshaw from a balcony. Watching bearded Szpilman's journey through a decimated Warshaw.
The Pianist isn't a film that truly stirred me. Perhaps a little since I am a piano geek to some degree, however it was a film that I really like and somehow it connected to me to make me feel that it's one of my personal fav films. Also to follow the crowd...but not too much, I give it a weak 5.0/5.0
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