Movie #122 - The Pianist
Title: The Pianist
Director: Roman Polanski
Release Year: 2002
Plot Summary: A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Thoughts: It was alright. I was expecting great things from this film, from everything I'd heard about it, but I think I'm getting burnt out on WWII survivor movies, if not WWII movies in general. Maybe with another viewing I'll have more coherent things to say, but it just struck me as kind of a vanilla sort of experience.
Rating (0-10): 6
Recommendations: Dunno. Schindler's List was pretty definitive for me, and I don't think this one is a serious contender compared to that.
posted by Craig @ 9:44 PM
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2 Comments:
are you freakin nuts? this movie OWNS. it abso-fucking-lutely owns. adrien brody is perfect in this movie and it's a real shame that he hasn;t been able to translate his dynamite and Oscar winning performance in this film into more commerical success... well, with the obvious exception of King Kong but in the hands of peter jackson even I couldn't have messed up that role.
what's more... i can actually watch this film more than once every three yearsm as opposed to Schinlder's List which often just makes me feel that i am part german. don't get me wrong, that'a s gem of a film as well... but there's just something about ralph fiennes.
this movie is fantastic and i IMPLORE each of you to go see it.
I may indeed be, as you say, "freakin nuts." I cannot preclude that possibility.
As I said, I sort of felt like I'd seen too many of that sort of movie lately. I think that had a lot to do with it probably.
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