I just finished watching The Pianist on TV. My eyes are still moist.. A great film and great minimalist method acting.
The movie is about a Polish Jew Pianist survival through the WWII. Adrian Brody, Whose first film I saw was King Kong and had an average impression about him, did a superb job. Not acting overtly, not acting for sympathy he lived that role. He is an artist primarily he is not the kinds who will walk into danger and face the opposition seeing the inhuman acts around him. He loves his piano he wants to survive. The way he underplayed the role with all the non-heroic melodrama is absolutely amazing.
The credit goes to the director who shows the horror filled WWII ghettos not for overtly making us cry or sympathize. He created these multiple layers in all the characters, not the simplistic 2-dimensional stuff like Saving private Ryan stuff. Not the classic Hollywood romancing of war movies.
Most Haunting Scenes: Brody playing piano in the air when he finds out the house he is hiding in has a piano.
Again the point goes back to my observation about the professional way of acting by these amazing youngsters. Brody learnt Piano, learnt to play Chopin (the most haunting piano I heard in recent times), trying to create the loss environment in his life when doing the role.
I guess the years 1935 -1950 were the watershed years in the history of world. The single point when world slumbering in the dying embers of middle ages, woke up in the modern days.
1. You had world war that changed the face of Europe and created the power called USSR.
2. You had Japan getting bombed and coming out of imperialism.
3. You had the independence of India the subsequent partition with its horrors.
4. You had The revolution in China.
5. You had the creation of Israel and the change of the face of Middle East.
6. Last but not the least - World came out of the great depression.
But why did we need a demon called Hitler to do this job of waking up the world.? What did the millions of Jews do to just get annihilate like that.? Are for that matter, what did the millions of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs do to deserve partition? The ghost still haunts by bombing Samjhauta Express.. When I saw the news of the Samjhauta express, I remembered the incident of the fateful train to Lahore during partition.
I want to visit some of the holocaust death camps - may be Auschwitz.. it will be such an overpowering experience I guess..
Read Dairy of Anne Frank..
The movie is about a Polish Jew Pianist survival through the WWII. Adrian Brody, Whose first film I saw was King Kong and had an average impression about him, did a superb job. Not acting overtly, not acting for sympathy he lived that role. He is an artist primarily he is not the kinds who will walk into danger and face the opposition seeing the inhuman acts around him. He loves his piano he wants to survive. The way he underplayed the role with all the non-heroic melodrama is absolutely amazing.
The credit goes to the director who shows the horror filled WWII ghettos not for overtly making us cry or sympathize. He created these multiple layers in all the characters, not the simplistic 2-dimensional stuff like Saving private Ryan stuff. Not the classic Hollywood romancing of war movies.
Most Haunting Scenes: Brody playing piano in the air when he finds out the house he is hiding in has a piano.
Again the point goes back to my observation about the professional way of acting by these amazing youngsters. Brody learnt Piano, learnt to play Chopin (the most haunting piano I heard in recent times), trying to create the loss environment in his life when doing the role.
I guess the years 1935 -1950 were the watershed years in the history of world. The single point when world slumbering in the dying embers of middle ages, woke up in the modern days.
1. You had world war that changed the face of Europe and created the power called USSR.
2. You had Japan getting bombed and coming out of imperialism.
3. You had the independence of India the subsequent partition with its horrors.
4. You had The revolution in China.
5. You had the creation of Israel and the change of the face of Middle East.
6. Last but not the least - World came out of the great depression.
But why did we need a demon called Hitler to do this job of waking up the world.? What did the millions of Jews do to just get annihilate like that.? Are for that matter, what did the millions of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs do to deserve partition? The ghost still haunts by bombing Samjhauta Express.. When I saw the news of the Samjhauta express, I remembered the incident of the fateful train to Lahore during partition.
I want to visit some of the holocaust death camps - may be Auschwitz.. it will be such an overpowering experience I guess..
Read Dairy of Anne Frank..
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auschwitz sounds like a good idea. let me know when you are going :-)
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