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The Pianist is the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who was one of the most accomplished musicians in Poland in the 1930s. This film does an excellent job of explaining why it became impossible for the Jewish people living in Europe to escape the Nazis and the plight of hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Warsaw. Post a reflective comment about the film.
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This movie i think has touched me the most, the sets and the scenes were so unbelievably realistic that at some points it was almost hard to watch. The details that the producers put into this film to reach the viewers in a way was amazing. To see the conditions that the Jews were literally thrown into was somthing that could only be understood by visual contents. the scene that wrenched me the most i would have to say was when the police or whom ever they belonged to threw the old man in the wheel chair over the balcony. i couldnt believe how real that seen appeared to be, it was nausiating to think that people could actually do somthing like that for no reason what so ever. overall i think this was an excellent movie to get the point across of what was actually happening during that time period.
The movie gave me a more emotional outlook to the nazi crisis. as being jewish, i can directly connect the poles that were being sent to the camps, and nothing touched my heart more than seeing innocent individuals being slaughtered just because it was against orders. what pisses me off the most is that none of us could do anything physically about the issue to resist it. personally i believe if any of us got the chance to be armed against nazis we would all participate in giving the punishment they deserve for killing the jews. the movie was excellent in that it did bring out the viewers emotions, like me, and is keeping me involved in the course.
This movie gave us a view of the events in Poland through the eyes of a Jewish man who actually experienced these events. For me this made everything more realistic, and allowed me to see how what the Nazis did truely affected so many people in a number of different ways. One of the parts that stuck out to me the most was the scene where the Szpilman family is eating dinner and a truck of Nazis men come down the street; they enter a neighbor's house and throw an old man out over a balcony simply because he is in a wheelchair. The Nazis then tell the rest of the family to go outside. From there they tell them all to run and after 3 seconds start shooting them down. It's so incredible to think that the Nazis had so much power that they could kill anyone simply because they wanted to. This film did a great job at helping the viewers understand how horrible things got for the Jews from the eyes of someone who actually experienced these events.
This film left me speechless. I had always heard of the atrocities that the Nazi's committed and I have even seen a great deal of footage of concentration camps and the like. After seeing that young boy being beaten to death and a helpless old man being thrown out of a window for the sole purpose of amusing the Nazi's and terrorizing the civilians brought me closer to understanding and connecting with this subject than nothing ever has before.
I agree with Michelle, it seems unfathomable that people could do these sorts of things with everyone around them fully knowing whats going on. Living as we do today, it is hard to comprehend how people would be able to commit such horrible acts against humanity and be relatively unopposed in doing so.
This movie really gave an inside look into the distress that happened to people in the Warsaw ghetto.There were multiple times in this movie where I would cringe at some of the unspeakably degrading things the Nazis would do or make the Jew do. Like for example when they took the old man and flipped his wheel chair over the balcony when he could not stand up. At that point I literally felt a knot in my stomach and actually gasped in disbelief. I was also extremely upset in how the Nazis would make them do things such as dance for their own sick entertainment. I really wish we could have been able to watch the whole move because it really interested me. I really developed connections for this family and felt their pain whenever they were presented with these terrible obstacles.
I completly agree with Briana we shared alot of the same views about how disgusting the nazis treated all of the innocent Jewish people.
This movie was the hardest thing I have had to watch so far in class. Seeing everyone being transported on the trains to the concentration camps was very difficult to watch. I knew what was going to happen, but other people in the video argued about it being a labor camp or something else. It reminded me of the train they have in the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C. I also thought about the family being separated and how hard that would be.
After watching the movie "The pianist" i saw how people were treated in a way i never saw before. I cant imagine all the suffering people went though and the thought of it is overwhelming. This movie was very realistic and i saw events occur from the Jews point of view. One man was saved and I consider him very lucky because he was the only one who was saved out of thousands of people. This movie did a very good job showing what it was like for the Jews back then. This film left me speechless.
I agree with Andrew that this film has left me speechless. I as well, have always heard of what the Nazi's did to the Jews but it wasn't until i watched this film where i could really see what happened. This film gave me an idea about how bad things really were and i think this film affected me more than any other film or written piece of work.
As I watched this movie it made me feel like I was right there in Poland with all the characters. It was hard to watch all the people in the streets dying or already dead. It was also very hard to watch how the nazis would just kill people so easily and not think twice about it. It is hard to believe people had to go through what they did and live through such conditions. The movie was very good and I really enjoyed watching it.
I agree with Matt how it really did make me mad how we could not do anything about it to stop the nazis. I really wish there would have been a way to stop all the nazis and save all the jewish people.
This movie really made my gut wrench. I think that learning and knowing about what happened in the ghetto is one thing, but seeing is another. Seeing my people be slaughtered for no apparent reason just angers me. I think this was a great way of learning first-hand why the Jews had nowhere to go. I think the part of the movie that I really learned the most from was the Jewish police. I think it is sick that they were turned against their own people, but they will just end up with the same fate. I think that this course and this movie do a great job of teaching because motion pictures and documentaries such as this really teach you firsthand what has happened in history.
I agree with Matt. I think that if any of us could resist, we would. Because the Nazis deserve punishment; what they did to the Jews is inhumane and cruel.
I didn't see the beginning of the film but from what I saw the second day was quite eye opening. I thought the film did a great job of showing what it was really like during that time. Actually seeing the Nazi abuse the jews and beating them for no reason was repulsive. To think that the Nazi's felt they had such power over another human being was just digusting. I felt bad for the jews when they were in the ghettos and then moved and cramped into the trains. It was really sad and eye opening to actually see what they had to live in and deal with as opposed to just hearing about it. The dipiction of the brutality and cruelity the jews had to suffer through was just nausating. I think everyone should see this film because it will have a lasting impact on them the same way it did for me.
I felt deeply disturbed during this film as to how the nazis could have done something so atrocious to another group of human beings. The part that stood out the most to me is when the woman got shot after she asked the soldier if he was talking to them. The only reason he did this is because he could. I felt so angry at the nazis during this movie and honestly wish i could have jumped in and beat them to death. This movie definately provoked a strong emotional reaction in me.
I agree with Jess that the Jews did not know what layed ahead. The anxiety they had must have been tremendous, not knowing what their fate was.
This film was outstanding in my opinion. Not just because it was actually a good movie but also because of its true context. This film in so many words was incredibly graphic and truly displayed what the Nazis were actually like during the time and how radical the ghetto was. It was like an emotional rollercoaster through the entire film! I felt instant despair as the old man was hurled over the balcony and sadness as we saw children and people dead on the streets of the ghetto. Also I felt incredibly angered when the Nazis would go on there, “terror runs.” I felt compelled to punch something as I saw them pointless shoot people. The pianist did a terrific job portraying Poland in the 1930’s, and I felt as if I was a person alongside these people.
I completely agree with Robert. The fact that people can mutilate and take the lives of fellow human beings is disgusting. And by watching this film I felt angered and mad at the Nazi’s. I also agree with Robert in the fact that it brought up many emotions while we were watching, pretty much all of which were negative.
The Pianist was probably the hardest movie I have ever had to watch. I find it impossible to forget the scene with the old man being pushed off of the balcony. I cannot stop thinking about that scene because it bothers me so much. What happened in the movie, pretty much for me, is just one generation away, and it could have been my grandparents. That could have been my grandparents family if they did not choose to emigrate from Poland and settle in the U.S. Some of my grandparents siblings stayed behind in Europe and they did not survive the war. Poland got it the worst too- 3 mil Jews killed. It didn't matter if you were a world renowned pianist, the fact that you were Jewish made your life not worth living. Really and truly, the Nazi Regime decided that Jews became a sub-class of human beings, and that Germany and the Third Reich would prosper if the Jews were eliminated. Judaism is a religion, it's a belief system, it has nothing to due with your humanity. The Pianist shows normal families doing normal things, eating dinner, talking, not bothering anybody, but they were still marked for death even though they weren't bothering anybody. The thing I find deeply troubling is that even today, even in Westborough High School, people still use Jew as a derogatory term. Being Jewish is still synonymous with something negative. People don't learn, simple as that.
I was absent on friday so I wasn't able to watch the rest of the film but ther first half was very interesting. I thought it brought up a lot of points about Nazi Germany that I hadn't thought before. There was a lot of Jews selling out other Jews for better deals. Also it was practically impossible for Jews to get a job back then. Its so terrible to think of all the potential and possibilities that some of these remarkable Jewish people had and how sad it is to realize their turmoil.
I was absent on Friday, but from watching the first part on Wednesday i thought this film was very good. It showed the German invasion of Poland from a perspective I have not seen before, from the perspective of a Jew living there. I thought this film was disturbing, especially the part where they raided the Jewish home, told them to run, and gunned them down, and also the child stuck under the wall who ended up dying. Although some parts were disturbing, it was an accurate portrayal of what Jews went through at this point in time.
I agree with Ryan that this film was outstanding, because it was an accurate portrayal of the invasion of Poland during the 1930's. I also felt sadness when watching the Nazi's go on their "terror runs" and although it was hard to watch, it made me appreciate the freedom we have in the United States even more.
This film is absolutely amazing. It is unbelievably realistic and it makes some scenes hard to watch. However, as a viewer, you get the sense of how it was like to be Jewish at that time in that area. You get to see how the Nazis would barge in to peoples homes and throw them off their balcony's. You get to see how they think of the Jewish people as less than human and how they throw them into trains like they would cattle that is being sent to a slaughter house. There were many moments in the film that I had to look away just because of how graphic it was. The movie without a doubt shows what the Jewish people went through and how cruel and evil the Nazis really were.
I agree with Robby Doretti. The film did an amazing job of making you feel as if you were there in Poland. Its hard to imagine seeing a ton of dead bodies on a daily basis and seeing kids get beaten to death and this movie made it feel as though you were there witnessing these events
It is unfortunate that we can not finish this movie and I will probably have to watch it on my own time now. It made a lot more things real for me. I had previously learned about all these events but seeing them happen even through a movie is a huge difference then text on a page. It makes it easier to imagine these things happening.
I was absent for this movie :(
The Pianst really was quite an upsetting movie. It really put into perspective to me how people in the ghettos were treated. I can't believe humans were treated as such cattle and were pushed, stepped, beaten on as they were merely insects. The Pianst has some graphic/disturbing scenes but truth is that in that movie, that was considered clean. I really want to see more realistic, documentary type footage because I believe Im starting to develop civic agency.
I agree with Robert, this movie really pulls you in emotionally and puts feelings of anger in your heart. My heart truly goes on for all the unfortunate, the innocent and good whos lives were victimized by the Nazi powers. No matter the color of your eye, hair, skin or anything by which a person can be judged be non exist in our society one day.
I can not beleive the Nazi's put all of the jewish people in the country in one area and closed them off from the rest of the country.I found this movie to be rather graphic at times when people were walking through the streets and they just walked passed dead bodies as if it were normal to see them there. I also found it rather upseting to see little kids begging people to give them food because they were starving. I could not believe the jewish police loaded their people onto trains towards the end of the clip we saw knowing that they were sending them to death camps. Out of the whole movie what upset me the most was watching Nazi officers walk into jewish homes at night getting everyone out of the house and shooting them outside just because they could.
this was great to see how he stuck with his family and i intend to rent the movie to see what happens at the end
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