The motion picture,
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, Poland. What did you learn from the film that you did not know before?
23 comments:
The the film "The Pianist" taught and showed me a variety of things about Nazi Poland. It displayed how torturous the Jewish lifestyle was. How cruel the Nazis were and the death and killings that happened in the Ghettos. Also how all the Jews were forced out of their homes and all moved in to very tiny homes that were enclosed in these Ghettos that were enclosed from the rest of Poland and all of Europe. Another thing i learned was how poor and how cruel the shipping of the Jews were. This film did a great job of explaining the events that the Jews went through and how cruel the Nazis truly were
This film really resonated with me due to the fact that it taught me so many new things about this time period in Germany. For example, I did not know before this that it was virtually impossible for the Jews living in Germany to get out of the places they were living and just flee to some place that would be safe for them to live, with out the constant fear of being killed or shipped off to a work camp. Also, I knew that the way the Nazis treated the Jews was cruel, but to the extent that this film showed, I had no idea. I realized this mostly because of the scene when the family has made it to their newest location, and they are all of a sudden forced to stand out in the street in a line. When a woman asks where they are being taken, the officer responds by shooting her in the head. Prior to watching the movie, I didn't fully grasp how badly the Jewish people were being treated, and this movie clarified that for me.
I was absent from class for this film
The part of the film we watched in class really showed me how exactly it looked. I think having it in a motion picture rather than a documentry really teaches and persuades the viewer to learn more. It helped me better understand the way the Jews were treated in the Ghettos and really made me intrested in seeing the rest of the film.
This film showed me how bad the Ghettos really were. Watching the movie all I could think was if only they could get out, but really it was near impossible for anyone to get out. Also seeing the Jewish police was something new, I didn't know that they were used in the Ghettos to keep order, I thought it was the Nazis. This film also showed me that in order to live you would have to make a choose between yourself and your family.
The film, “The Pianist” did a great job at telling the story of the holocaust and what Jewish people had to go through. The film taught me how cruel the Nazis were. I obviously knew they were killing people by the millions, but I did not think that they would kill someone for just asking a simple question, like “where are you taking us?” The scene where the Nazis invaded people’ homes and threw the handicapped man off the ledge, really got to me. I put myself in that situation and wondered how I would have reacted if they had wheeled my grandfather off the ledge. This film portrayed the true cruelty of the Nazis and the fear that many people had to live with.
The movie "The Pianist" did a good job portraying the incriments of the stages of the Holocaust. It showed the moving of the Jews into the ghetto, and how terrible of a place it was. I learned that the Jews were not sent to the concentration camps right away, they were slowely victimized and these camps were the final stage. I also learned that the Nazis were not just killers, they were shameless, guiltless, and desensitized murders. A Jewish life to them ment absolutely nothing, and that really got to me.
Watching this movie made me realize exactly how difficult it was for the Jews living in the ghettos. They were treated harshly and poorly. One simple question could get them killed just because the Nazis could. The Nazis did not care at all for the Jews and did whatever they pleased. The jews had to fight hard just to survive this terrible time, and spometimes the Nazis made it impossible for them to survive.
I liked how the movie showed the chronology of the events, gave me a good clear picture of how it was, the elements that effected the Jews decisions and how life was going at that time. Which is really sad..
The film was excellent in showing how the Jews were treated. I was blown away at some of the scenes and found it difficult to watch such cruelty. The living conditions were unbelievably awful and the fact that the Jews stayed positive was remarkable. Although I knew most of what happened because of Hebrew School, i was still intrigued by the film and learned some new things. I cannot believe how the Jewish police treated other Jews. Some of the things that i witnessed were sick. The fact that you are showing us this film is great because we must not allow such a thing to ever happen again. Everyone can contribute in society.
I learned so much from watching this movie. To begin, I finally realized that the Jews really didnt have a choice to leave or not. They were confined into a brick community and was not alowed out. Also, the conditions that the people were living in was also a new realization for me too. I saw people stealing clothes from dead people and such. This film really taught me alot
So far, "The Pianist" has been the best film for me in terms of understanding the true goal of History and Ourselves. Although we have been learning it in previous years and thoroughly this year, it never truly "hit me" until this film. This film opened my eyes to the harsh reality of polish ghettos. Also one key fact that i learned from this film was one, the idea that jews police jews and the second learning experience was why jews policed jews. Overall really awesome film.
From this movie I was able to grasp a more realistic idea of the torturous lifestyle of the Jews living in Warsaw at the time that the nazis rose to power. Little things that we take for granted nowadays in the lifestyle that we live in were removed from the Jews that were living under nazi Germany, and this was addressed thoroughly in the film The Pianist.
From this movie I was able to grasp a more realistic idea of the torturous lifestyle of the Jews living in Warsaw at the time that the nazis rose to power. Little things that we take for granted nowadays in the lifestyle that we live in were removed from the Jews that were living under nazi Germany, and this was addressed thoroughly in the film The Pianist.
This film really did show me how the ghettos were like back then, and what happened to the Jews when they were put into them. It really opened my eyes to the things that happened and made me understand more about how they gathered the jews and took them to death camps.
After watching the film "The Pianist" I learned a lot about why it was so difficult for the Jews to escape the Nazis during the Holocaust. I learned from the film that the Nazis told the Jewish people that if they had work permits they would be more useful to society. It was a commonly believed rumor that those Jews who were working would not be sent to labor camps. This was actually a lie. Jews could be sent away at any time. I also learned how unforgiving the Nazis were. Every time one of the Jews tried to reason with one of them, they make no exceptions and would often use physical punishment to put the Jews down for speaking up.
This film was very interesting to me and it made everything that happened during the Holicost feel very true. The reason for this is because I finally was put into the shoes of a Jewish person during this time. With outseeing this film i simply would have questioned why the Jews didnt get out sooner. This film was very good and due to an absence i missed the end unfortunatly.
The movie "The Piantist" taught me a lot about their statigies on how to influence the jews it was somewhat okay what they were doing. The movie clearly demonstarted the sequential increase in the severity of the actions the germans imposed on the jews. It made it seem more realistic because of the change of events.
"The Pianist" out of all the movies actually taught me the most. It showed how unfair the moving process was for the Jews. They were told if they had work permits they could stay but that was not the case. The Nazi's kept changing the rules so the could continue to violently oppress the Jews in the ghetto. I also didnt know how much power the Jewish police had and how well they were treated even for still being Jewish.
“The Pianist” taught me more about what life was like living in a ghetto and the debates that Jewish people had on whether or not to become Jewish police to work for the Nazis. Before discussing in class and watching the movie, I did not realize that the Nazis gave jobs to Jews to work as police, although you could also see how easy the Nazis could change their minds and end up hurting or killing other people for no apparent reason. Overall, it showed more of specific daily life and struggles that Jews went though, and I think it would be interesting to see how the movie continued and ended.
After watching the film I learned a lot of things. First of i wasn't aware of the fact that even after moving into the ghetto the Jews were being tormented and beaten by the Germans. I thought they were put in the ghetto to live okay and then kill them in the concentration camps. Also the amount of money that things were worth at that time were impossible to get and necessities were scarce. The film was great and should be showed in the future.
this film was very eye opening and showed just how bad things actually were for the jews. the nazis acted extremely inhumane toward them and this film did a good job of showing just how poorly jews were treated.
This film revealed to me just how brutal the nazis were in their treatment of the Jews during WWII. Some of the scenes were so disturbing to me that I had to look away. I never realized that there was a step by step process that the nazis took, I had always just thought that they took the jews from their home and sent them straight to concentration camps. This film was eye opening and hopefully i get the chance to watch the rest of it.
Post a Comment