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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. What did you learn from the film that you didn't know before?
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I thought that this movie did a really good job capturing the hardships that the Jews went through. I learned that it didn't matter what your previous profession had been if you were Jewish. A lot of the people were significant and vital members of the community, yet they were treated like animals as well. The main character was extrordinarilly accomplished in music, yet he was going to be sent to Auschwitz on the train just like everyone else. I also saw the change that the jewish families had to endure. The family that was prominantly featured in the movie was one of high social standing. They lived in a comfortable home and had money saved, yet they were forced to move to a ghetto despite their social standing. A moment that really stuck with me was when the man in the wheelchair was dropped to his death, as well as when the family was shot from behind. The indifference that the Nazi soldiers had to these acts was appaling.
This was an extremely powerful film that showed the agony that the Jews had to face in their time of crises during the Nazi invasion of Poland. Something very important that I learned was that even some of the Jews living in Poland had turned on their own people and given to the Nazi regime in an attempt to save their own lives. What was even more shocking than that was that everyone had suffered the same fate, even the Nazi supporting Jews.
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I think this movie did a really good job with portraying how tough life truly was for the Jewish people, and gave a lot of different scenarios of how the Nazis mistreated them. For example, near the beginning of the movie I was completely shocked and taken off guard when the Nazi troopers invaded a Jewish family's home and dumped the man in the wheelchair over the edge of the balcony. I could not believe what I was seeing, and it only got worse as the movie went on. This was a real eye opener for me and made me feel for the Jewish people.
i personally feel as if the movie should be shown to every kid in high school. I shows the basics of what was really happening but it still doesn't grasp what really happened during the hallacaust. I feel that the movie is in fact a great movie don't get me wrong. This movie made me feel miserable when they killed the old man, and discusting when the little boy died in the wall. There were many parts of the movie i would just kill myself instead of just go on living with these things. The movie was powerful and showed me the hard ships that the jewish people had to live through. The movie portrayed how numb society was to feeling empathy.
The Pianist really showed me how wide spread the Nazi epidemic was. For the longest time I thought that Jewish people in Germany were the only ones who were really directly in danger or the Nazis, I thought that if they went far enough(or left the country) they could somewhat escape it. Clearly, I was wrong. To expand on this, I would have thought that European countries besides Germany would not have had ghettos or allowed the Jews to be hearded and to live the way that they were forced to in Germany.
The film also really drove home the brutality of the Nazis. People were shot just for asking a question, one old man was thrown off of his balcony because he was in a wheelchair. There was so much violence happening in the streets, death everywhere, not just in the camps.
This movie was really difficult to watch. Seeing terrible things happen as they did actually happen really struck me. I learned that Jews betrayed their own and went into the Jewish police. It was awful to see those people do that but I can't really understand because I wasn't there. I also learned that the Jews weren't the only ones targeted. When the man in the wheelchair was pushed off the balcony or when innocent people were being shot I cringed and realized that this isn't just a movie it's real and it happened. I will definitely watch the second half.
After watching the first half of The Pianist, I learned all the "small" hardships that the Jews had to go through. I guess prior to the film, I didnt realize the Nazi's would go to the extent of throwing a man off his wheelchair from a deck. That was one scene that shocked me the most. I also learned that although the Jews were all struggling, they couldnt help eachother, only themselves. One scene in particular is the one where the mother is holding her child saying he is 'dying from thirst' and no one has anything to save him. This movie was extremely eye opening to me and i agree with shaina that it should be shown to all highschoolers.
I learned that there were Jewish "Gestapo" that assisted in the herding/controlling of the Jewish population in Poland. I found it terrible that these people simply watched their own people get herded into trains and taken into death-camps without any resistance.
What I thought the film did a really good job with was exploiting the behind the scenes killing of the Jewish people. We all know that they were taken to the gas chambers and killed that way, but we seldom see the executing in the ghetto. For me the most powerful scene was when they threw the man in the wheelchair off of the balcony. That was just one of the ways the Nazi's executed the Jews behind the scenes, by breaking into their homes and killing the handicap.
This movie was a real eye opener for me. It showed what it was like for Jewish people that were living in Warsaw. They were abused for absolutely no reason. They were forced to move into the ghetto and eventually most of them got transported out of there and killed. It also was shocking for one lady to ask "Where are you taking us?" and the man in charge just shot her right in the head. Everything that happened had no reason for it.
I thought that this movie did a very good job of capturing the true horror of the way the Jews were being treated, even before they were sent off to camps. I had not known that there were Jewish police who helped the Germans eliminate the Jews. It shocked me to see the utter merciless violence that the Germans used towards the Jews, like when they dumped the person in the wheelchair out the window, or shot the lady in the head for asking where they were taking her. The things that helped me get a full understanding of the conditions of the ghetto other than the scenes involving violence were those that showed the utterly disgusting conditions in which they lived. There were dead bodies lying around everywhere of people who had starved or been killed by the Germans. They were not buried. People just walked over them, as if they were not even there. This shows the loss of value for human life that they felt, feeling as if a dead body in the street was the norm. It was also disturbing to see the Jewish man lick the food off the ground after stealing and spilling it there. This shows the desperation that the Jews felt in the ghettos. this film did a great job at showing the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto in Poland after the Germans invaded, and helped me to further understand fully the conditions they went through during the Holocaust.
I learned that there were jewish forces actually working for the nazi's. It doesn't truely suprise me after all there were Africans who performed similar actions during the times of early slavery in america. I felt the movie brutaly captured the core essence of the fate that had befallen the Hebrew people and was succesful in making one phillosophically ponder what they would do in a similar position.
I only saw about half an hour of this film but it really showed me how poorly the Jews were treated at this time. It seemed unfair.
After watching the Pianist i was horrified by how jews were treated. one of the most powerful scene was when one of the lady's asked " where are you taking us" and she was shot for simply asking a question. That scene just proved to me how useless the jews were looked up on. This film was very well done on showing how jews were treated.
After watching The Pianist, I had truly realized why the Jewish people living during this time could not flee from their countries. I was also unaware of just how brutally treated the Jews were by the Nazis. I did not know that the Nazis were constantly filimg and humiliating their victims. I was taken back when I learned that their were Jews who worked for the Nazi party.
This film was very graphic...but I think it was completely necessary to portray the troubles Jewish folk went through. Some of these scenes were disturbing, but at the same time they are eyeopening and do a good job putting the veiwers in a Jewish person's shoes at this time period.
While watching The Pianist I realized how bad the ghettos actually where. I knew that they were very overcrowded but I wasn't away how bad the living situations was. They had almost no food and the Nazis would come in and kill them whenever they wanted. I can't imagine living like that and can't even begin to put myself in their position and what I would do.
I thought the movie did a really good job of portraying the terror and confusion these people were living with. The most memorable part for me was the woman who kept saying "why did I do it, why did I do it", and when we learned that she was talking about killing her own child.
I thought that this movie was really disturbing in many ways although it did a great job of letting the viewer see the life style that was thrust upon the jewish community. The movie really made an impression on me when the nazies went into that house and brought those families into the street and shot them like dogs. This made the horror of living in the warsaw ghetto real for me and I could only imagine how the people living their felt.
After watching the film I realized the significant amount of hatred the Nazis had for Jewish people. They misused their power to purely humiliate them, for example forcing them to dance. They would kill Jews in front of others just to scare the others into following their orders and to maintain fear. The moments that shocked me the most in the movie was watching the Nazis kill innocent people just because of religion and walking away with no regret, like the Jewish people deserved that kind of treatment. I also learned that even the Jewish police that helped and supported the Nazis were sentenced to the same fate by the end of the Holocaust.
This movie is pretty tough to watch but I can definetly say that the director did a great job of showing us what it really was like to be a jewish dicepal in Poland. Most of the things that the Nazis did to the jews were just unbearable to even grasp. I wouldn't want to live in a place where you could be killed at any given time. I now know that there was a lot of details I was missing out on and now I understand.
I agree ith Joe some of the scenes that were shown were just to messed up to even comprehend and it's tough to even know that these things happened. Most people take these kinds of things for granted but I guarantee that most people will see this and it defiently will change their prospective on life.
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