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The Pianist. Popular with kids Parents recommend. Powerful true story of a Jewish pianist has brutal violence. R minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. Based on 14 reviews. Based on 23 reviews. Get it now Searching for streaming and purchasing options Common Sense is a nonprofit organization. Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. Get it now on Searching for streaming and purchasing options X of Y Official trailer.

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See our privacy policy. A lot or a little? The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Stands out for positive messages and positive role models. Positive Messages. Positive Role Models. Uses of "f--k" and "s--t. Alcohol drinking in restaurants, wine drinking at dinner; no one acts drunk. The closing scenes of the movie involve Szpilman's confrontation with a German captain named Wilm Hosenfeld Thomas Kretschmann , who finds his hiding place by accident.

I will not describe what happens, but will observe that Polanski's direction of this scene, his use of pause and nuance, is masterful. Some reviews of "The Pianist" have found it too detached, lacking urgency. Perhaps that impassive quality reflects what Polanski wants to say.

Almost all of the Jews involved in the Holocaust were killed, so all of the survivor stories misrepresent the actual event by supplying an atypical ending. Often their buried message is that by courage and daring, these heroes saved themselves. Well, yes, some did, but most did not and--here is the crucial point--most could not.

In this respect Tim Blake Nelson's " The Grey Zone " is tougher and more honest, by showing Jews trapped within a Nazi system that removed the possibility of moral choice. By showing Szpilman as a survivor but not a fighter or a hero--as a man who does all he can to save himself, but would have died without enormous good luck and the kindness of a few non-Jews--Polanski is reflecting, I believe, his own deepest feelings: that he survived, but need not have, and that his mother died and left a wound that had never healed.

After the war, we learn, Szpilman remained in Warsaw and worked all of his life as a pianist. His autobiography was published soon after the war, but was suppressed by Communist authorities because it did not hew to the party line some Jews were flawed and a German was kind. Republished in the s, it caught Polanski's attention and resulted in this film, which refuses to turn Szpilman's survival into a triumph and records it primarily as the story of a witness who was there, saw, and remembers.

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Frank Finlay as The Father. Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman.

Thomas Kretschmann as Capt. In the first, Szpilman is trapped in the snare of the National Socialists. The second focuses on the horror of life in the Warsaw ghetto, including the shipping of his family off to the death camp.

In the crescendo, Szpilman unwittingly hides in the headquarters of the German army. It stands out because it contrasts so clearly with the previous dialog. The premeditation and care of the filmmaking presents some minor problems at the beginning of the movie, however.

Several times the movie feels like scenes are inserted just to express the horror of the Holocaust. They are scenes that represent the enduring legends of the Holocaust. A little girl carries an empty birdcage. A boy is beaten to death climbing under a wall. A mother weeps for the child she smothered to escape the Nazis. No doubt these things happened, but the story is so powerful that these extra scenes do not add anything to it, but detract from the flow.

These are minor flaws in an otherwise incredible movie. Polanski has cast this movie beautifully. The star is authentic and aristocratic — thin, sharp-nosed, with incredible eyes. His acting is superb. In many Hollywood movies there is an attempt to make everyone look like an American.

The sets also are incredible. Polanski takes viewers from the beauty of pre-war Warsaw to a devastation that is hard to imagine.