The film "Pianist": reviews of spectators and critics

"Pianist" - a film in 2002, which received the "Golden Palm Branch" at the film festival in Cannes. Also this amazing ribbon was awarded three Oscar awards, including for the best director, and also to the best actor.

The film is based on real events. It describes the history of pianist Vladislav Shpilman.

Close to the heart of the plot

The fate of a great man during the Second World War narrates "Pianist" (film). Critics' comments indicate that, at first glance, the tape of the director Roman Polansky seems dispassionate and cold. However, it is not. The story told in the film is as objective as it could be done by a person who personally experienced the horrors of war and the Holocaust. This applies to the main character, which is the Polish musician Vladislav Shpilman, and the very Roman Polanski. This director, who achieved world-level fame, being at a venerable age, decided to tell the world about what he himself knew firsthand. He just as miraculously escaped the tragic path of his parents, who died in a concentration camp. Polanski managed to get out of the Cracow ghetto and was hiding from the Germans in the village.

The book of the Polish musician

The film "The Pianist", whose reviews testify to the live interest of the audience to the narrated story, tells about the life of Vladislav Shpilman in Warsaw in the period 1939-1945. It was the time of the German occupation of Poland.

Director Roman Polanski filmed his film on the book of memoirs of the famous composer and musician. The main character, who played Adrien Brody, had a hard time. His parents, brother and two sisters were killed at the hands of the fascists. Only Vladislav was lucky. At first he was saved from death by a Jewish policeman, then by a Polish woman, and at the very end of the war by a German captain.

After Warsaw was liberated, Shpilman was still in a state of stress for a long time. He was not left feeling guilty for the death of loved ones. In order to somehow come to, Vladislav, on the advice of friends, began to write a book. In it, he told about all the experiences. Memoirs of the musician were written almost immediately after the defeat of fascist Germany and published in 1946. In those years, the book was called "The death of the city."

Vladislav Shpilman managed to return to his musical creativity. He performed concerts, was the head of the musical editorial office of the state radio, created the famous "Warsaw Quintet". On his initiative, musical festivals in Sopot began to be organized. All the postwar years, Spielmann spent in Warsaw. In this city at the age of 88 he died.

In 1998, the second edition of Spilman's memoirs was published in Germany. The book was called "The Pianist". A year later, these memoirs were published in the United States, and after - translated into eight languages. This allowed the memoirs to arouse the huge interest of readers around the world, from Spain to Japan, and become a real bestseller. According to this book, the famous film director Roman Polansky was shot and the film "Pianist" was shot.

Everyday narrative

What does the "Pianist" movie get? Many viewers expected from a well-known director of mystical tapes, thrillers and horror films of something nervous, disturbing, disturbing and frightening. However, the film "Pianist" receives reviews of a completely different plan. The beginning of the plot seems ordinary and everyday. It is deprived not only of expression, but also of vindication.

The director decided to shoot his painting in color. Thus, he violated the tradition of chronicle black and white cinema. But, despite this artistic device, Polanski managed to achieve the everydayness of the narrative, which he seemed to have given him without much effort. And it amazes the audience with the film "Pianist". Critics' comments indicate that it was the everyday life that turned out to be the most terrible in the tape. After all, a story unfolds on the screen, in which, daily, in a hurry, without giving anyone an explanation and, as it were, between the cases, some people in German uniforms or special uniforms beat, humiliate and even shoot others. And the main reason for this cruelty lies in the fact that Jews come across their eyes. This is what stirs the soul of "Pianist" (film, 2002). Critics' comments indicate that the everydayness of the tape acts on the minds of the spectators is much stronger than the demonstration of pathos passions about the total extermination of unfortunate Jews.

The realities of the film

In the famous film directed by Roman Polansky, one of the best Polish pianists of the thirties of the 20th century is told. Vladek - the main character of the film, was engaged in his favorite business until the time when the territory of his country was not occupied by the Nazis. From that time the life of Shpilman and all Polish Jews changed.

They were placed in the Warsaw ghetto, forbidden to work, constantly humiliated and forced to wear special distinctive bandages. All these scenes very clearly reflected the "Pianist" (film, 2002). Critics' comments indicate that the director did everything without embellishment and without busting. He accurately showed the attitude of the Germans towards the Jews and the way the Nazis treated them. This reflection of reality has not been in any film about the war.

Wonderful salvation

After a while the Jews began to be sent to a concentration camp, the return from which is not. Vladislav Shpilman at the last moment was able to save his long-time friend. Film critics celebrate the startling frame of the film. In it, the sobbing musician leaves the train, which takes his family to the camp, where people will never get out alive.

Shpilman returned to the deserted Warsaw Ghetto. For several hours he had to hide under the restaurant scene, in which he had recently earned a living. Together with the familiar Shpilman gets to the construction site. Here, under the supervision of the Nazis, the musician had to work as a laborer. Once on the street, Vladislav saw a familiar woman. Being a fan of his talent, she and her husband helped Shpilman escape from the construction site.

Traveling in apartments

Rescue Vladislav woman rented an apartment for him in the German area, the windows of which overlooked the Warsaw ghetto. Here Shpilman observed the course of the insurrection taking place in him. Once a man came to the apartment and told that the friends who rented his apartment were arrested. He advised the musician to change his location. However, Shpilman did not do this. He stayed in the apartment, but there was no one to come and bring food. In search of food, Vladislav began to rummage around the cupboards and accidentally dropped a lot of dishes on the floor. This sound drew the attention of a neighbor. After all, she believed that the apartment was empty. Vladislav packed his things and went quietly to the street in the evening. He miraculously managed to escape from the neighbor who was waiting for him, loudly shouting "Zhid! Jew!"

Thanks to the fact that Shpilman is a national celebrity, he is again rented by fans. This apartment is located opposite the German commandant's office and hospital.

However, fame did not protect the musician from betrayal. Vladislav's friends collected money for him, but a man ran away with them, who was supposed to bring him food.

Unexpected help

Vladislav fell ill with jaundice and stayed in an empty apartment without medicines and help. In the half-dead state, it is discovered by a woman with her husband. The couple hurriedly called the doctor, but they were forced to leave the country. A few days later the German commandant's office was attacked by partisans. To suppress the uprising, the fascists attracted tanks, one of whom fired a shell into the house where the musician was. Shpilman miraculously escaped death and hid in one of the buildings of the empty ghetto. There he found a can of canned cucumbers, but could not open it because of weakness.

Vladislav decided to look for the instrument and, wandering around the building, accidentally stumbled upon a German. He was in a mood of peace and, having learned that the man who met him was a pianist, asked him to perform a musical work for him. Shpilman played Chopin.

In the building where the musician was hiding, the Germans staged a new headquarters. Vladislav had to hide in the attic. Here the German began to bring bread and jam. He also brought a can opener.

Later the headquarters was evacuated. The German came to say goodbye. He handed the musician a package of food and, turning to the door, looked at the frozen Vladislav, wrapped in dirty rags. He regretted the pianist and gave Shpilman his overcoat.

Death of the Savior

At the very end of the film, the Warsaw ghetto was liberated by Soviet troops. At the same time, the soldiers seized the remaining Germans. The officer who helped Spielmann got behind the barbed wire. The beaten German tried to talk with one of the Poles. He shouted his name, but the interlocutor did not hear her. The Pole passed the conversation with the German Spielmann. He came to the camp, but no one was there. Unfortunately, Vladislav did not know the surname of his savior, and therefore could not help him.

At the end of the film, the audience learned that the German Wilhelm Hozenfeld, thanks to whom the Polish musician was alive, died in the Soviet camp in 1952.

Behavior of the main character

Many critics say that in the movie "Pianist" the main character is represented not so much in the role of a direct participant in the events, but as a witness. Shpilman observes all the events happening a bit from the side. According to the director's intention, he is some kind of author's intermediary. Here, some critics draw an analogy of the protagonist with a camera that captures everything that gets into its lens. And this is emphasized more than once by the director in his chosen angles. So, for example, frames, when Vladislav observes what is happening "ordinary" horror through the shell in the window or through a narrow opening. This is especially evident in the scenes where Shpilman has to hide in illegal apartments.

In the last third of the film, the pianist is practically alone. And contrary to the seemingly perfectly reasonable arguments that he is no longer a tenant, he still strives to survive. He is like Robinson Crusoe, who is on an uninhabited island. Vladislav from the last forces clings to life, believing that he does not have the right to withdraw from this world before the term, laid down from above. And this faith is given to him by music. It is the art, from which the pianist was excommunicated, fills him with vitality.

Music

The protagonist of the film "The Pianist" goes through a kind of torture. It is expressed in excommunication from music. This is especially evident in the scene, when after a long break, Shpilman finally found himself near the piano. However, for reasons of conspiracy, he can not play. The pianist has to touch his fingers in the air, not touching the keys. But in his imagination (and behind the scenes) the works of Frederic Chopin sound. According to viewers and film critics, Vladislav's rescue came not at the moment when Soviet troops occupied Warsaw. It happened a little earlier. The musician felt life when a German officer asked to play for him.

Music from the movie "The Pianist" helps director Roman Polansky to emphasize the idea that it is very difficult to live in this world in extreme situations, but it is possible if a person has a high mission, which is his creativity. The film "The Pianist" is not about the art of survival. It tells of survival through art.

Cast

Not only thanks to the work of the talented director he received numerous awards "Pianist" (film, 2002). The actors who played in it vividly reflected the main idea of Roman Polyansky. Especially the audience and critics celebrate the game of Adrien Brody. He passed the whole military path of Shpilman in perfection, having perfected himself in 2,5 hours from a flamboyant, fashionably dressed musician to a ragged, frightened and frightened by the cold, trying to open a jar of cucumbers by chance with a dirty nail.

No less talented was the play of other actors starring in the film: Thomas Krechman (Captain Hosenfeld), Frank Finlay (Spielmann's father), Maureen Lipman (Spielmann's mother), Emilia Fox and many others.

Beautiful story of an Italian director

The film "Pianist" in 1998 is also connected with the world of music. In his story, the Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore spoke about the amazing story of a man who, on the first day of the twentieth century, was found in a box of lemons on the steamer Virginia. The boy spent his life at sea. He grew up on an ocean liner making flights between Europe and America.

The director called his film "The Legend of a Pianist." After all, his story tells the viewer how the protagonist, who never visited the shore, somehow learned to play the piano skillfully and began to entertain the audience, participating in a restaurant orchestra. His life and the stunning stories connected with her turned into a beautiful fairy tale.

A very interesting tape is "The Legend of a Pianist." Reviews of the movie critics say that the plot literally shakes the audience and rivet their attention to a man who has never stepped ashore in his life. The main character found his vocation in music, which is dictated by the sound of waves. Already in his early childhood he began to give out such virtuosic parties on the piano that the people on the ship applauded his talent. The guy has such an amazing ear, musical memory and a sense of rhythm that it more than compensates for his ignorance of notes and the lack of musical education.

Judging by the reviews of the audience, the film does not leave anyone indifferent. He surprises and inspires, and also makes you smile. The cinema is unusual and breaks our established stereotypes. So to see it is worth everyone.