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The Pianist

This movie follows the story of a pianist during the holocaust. the story took place in September 1939, in Poland during world war 2. the main characters name is Wladyslaw Szpilman, however during the movie they refer to him by his nickname Wladek. He is employed by a Radio station.

The story explosively starts as the radio station is bombed, later he finds out that his family is packing up to leave Poland. news comes that Britain and France have started to attack Germany, so they decide to stay with hope that the war will end soon. Not long after this the discrimination enforced by law begins to sting,however the horrors start when they enter the ghetto. more time passes and eventual the Jews are moved like cattle into trains that would lead to concentration camp, and there be slowly eliminated before Wladek could get on the train, Itzak Heller a Jewish man working as a guard pull him away. He eventually blinds in with the Jews who were kept for slave labor. Over the next months he is changed from a laborer to the person who distributes materials, and then helped to arm the rebellion.

So without reveling too much of the plot, at the end he finds shelter after surviving in the demolished ruins of the city. There he is discovered by a German captain by accident.

Cliff hanger isn't it, to find out you should watch the movie your self. As we all know the holocaust was a horrific act of racism, in fact it is counted among the worst. under the Nazi regime, 6 million European Jews and a great number of other races, and people with different  religious and social backgrounds.there people were killed in mass.

This movie was an eye opener into the holocaust. i always knew it was horrible but never like that. this movie shows an individuals perspective as he experienced the injustices perpetrated by the Nazis. the movie had everything from loss, strife, and frustration. the story was so immersive that what Wladek’s emotions become your own as the movie progresses.

There has been much speculation as to what caused people to do these atrocities, could it have been that they truly belied these people to be inferior, or was it that they simply followed orders.or may be something like herd mentality. it may have also been, what is known as the halo effect, or may be the people felt like they didn't have the power to change anything. in the end no one benefited Germany was left in ruin and both sides suffered heavy losses. there is a quote by Martin Luther King that states” i have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. this quote is best in this situation, because if Hitler had regarded the content of peoples character over what they looked like instead of their racial or religious affiliations, he could have created a far better world.