He was phenomenal in this film. I remember when I saw this film a few months ago and it was a harrowing experience. thank you for checking out this movie mate, have a good day.
Darwins book " on the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life " is a blueprint for the final solution . It spells out how different races were categorized and not as fully evolved as others. This mindset made it easier to justify killing the less evolved, as they were less worthy of life. The smithsonian museum is littered with jars of pigmies and aborigines preserved in formaldehyde, who were looked at subhuman. The Bible tells us all life is precious and we are all children of God. This is the reason a lot of born again Christians are so opposed to the work of Margaret Sanger , a known eugenicist who admired Hitlers work. She late founded Planned Parenthood. PPH offices target poor black neighborhoods, as Margaret called blacks "human weeds".
@@Embur12 Have you read either of these books? The bible preaches about the destruction of enemies and eternal damnation. Darwin states that nature is apathetic. What he doesn't mention, as it does not apply in most of the non human species, is the role of compassion in our progress. His book is not a blueprint for the Holocaust. The bible however, as other religious texts, justifies massacres in the name of belief. To me, as a rational, logical thinking person, that's abhorrent. Go do some reading
@@Peter-wd1yo Wow you took the Bible out of context...I'm shocked. In the old testament God promised his people the land of Canaan, whose inhabitants practiced human sacrifice (children mainly) and worshiped false gods. They had to war to take over the land. Darwins was urged by colleagues to publish his work, but Darwin was extremely skeptical. Micro evolution takes place all the time , species adapt to conditions. Macro evolution is a fairy tale, as we should be able to find millions of intermediary changes in the fossil record, but we find none. We we have been fed a bunch of hoaxes like Lucy, and Piltdown man , where bones of animals and human are magically found in the same skeleton. As for Hitler, his Nuremberg speech from 1933 states that the gulf between our highest races and so called lower races of men is greater that the gulf between the ape and the lowest race of man. He also stated that if our ancestors hadn't fought against nature we would still be animals. Through the struggle with animals and perhaps other humans the earth was acquired by the right of the stronger. Sounds like survival of the fittest to me.
@Grand Slamwich I'm glad your mom didn't think that way. A baby is still dependant on its mother for survival months after birth. Does that make it any less valuable? Some Democrats are now advocating up to one month after birth to terminate the baby. So where does it end? Abortionists have been know to leave babies to die on countertops from exposure. Well those that survived the procedure (saline abortion). Survivors have testified before Congress and state legislatures, but again the left views them as refuse, or voices that really don't need to be heard.
@Grand Slamwich Google it dude...the Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell,, had pieces of kids in jars all over his office. Unsanitary as hell. Abortion survivors Melissa Ohden and Clairemont Culwell to name two. Do I need to do all your critical thinking also? Do a minimal amount of research before spouting out your facts.
you are referring "this" as is a movie with creative freedoms is a document of history. Holocaust happened and people who learn their history from movies and think that is what happened are silly
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@Imperial Terra hmmm let's see, if you check history you'll see that Russia, India, china (before even WWI) with said regimes and alike, wiped out close to 100 million people altogether, if not way more. During WWI and II we lost another 60-80 million people altogether. None of these countries had a democracy - and this doesn't even include recent times of the past 70 years or so. I understand you hate Democracy for some reason but I myself live and a social democrat country - not the best when you have democracy and socialism together like in Europe - it doesn't work unless you have a huge financial backup for all your programs and socialist ideas.
@@n_other_1604 not rly, compare the occupation in France or Holland to occupation in Poland... French were not "Untermensch"... In France for hiding Jews you would get a financial penelty, worst scenario arrest... In Poland and rest of eastern front countries, death penelty to all members of the family not only for the one that did hide the Jews. French did not have "łapanka" (Google it) in France and other Western countries you did not have sings "nur fur deutche" in tramps, restaurants, parks...
@@bartoszk4299 I'm talking mainly (not only) about the jewish communities which existed in Germany itself, Austria, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania,, Soviet Union,... or do you think there is a difference between for example hungary & Czechia compared to Poland?
Wilm Hosenfeld was the name of the German officer who helped Szpilman. He joined the Nazi Party for political reasons but quickly became disillusioned with their policies. Leaving the Nazi party or the SS is virtually impossible, so he used his position in the SS to help save Poles, Jews, and Soviet prisoners of war whenever he could. In 2009 he was recognized by the State of Israel as Yad Vashem ("Righteous Among the Nations"), a name for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust. He was a good man in a horrible situation.
Correct, he was Wehrmacht. Other than that the op got the rest right. It’s sad that the Russians killed so many innocent Germans all because they considered it an eye for an eye. The Russians showed us how barbaric they truly are when they committed war crimes left and right after entering Germany. Killing and raping civilians. And let’s not forget that the Russians invaded Poland with Germany and split it in half.
@Jay Michael Russ "I remember myself in my captain’s shoulder-boards and the forward march of my battery through East Prussia, enshrouded in fire, and I say: 'So were *we* any better?'" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
My great grandfather was someone I always perceived as grumpy. It wasn't until he passed away a couple of years ago that I found out he was in a concentration camp. Made me think twice before passing judgment on people
A very good point. So many people I regularly interact with, I can tell they're generally not happy people, and in some cases, they're probably dealing with trauma they never saw to treating.
That’s why a lot of us Baby Boomers are they way we are. Many of our Parents went through the Great Depression and WW2. Many of them lived with PTSD and terrible guilt over what they had to do to survive. They did the best they could do for their children, just like we did for ours. We are all products of our time.
Yeah, our grandparents had no PTSD treatment. And I know my mine all desperately needed it. My soul aches for all our ancestors from all walks and environments endured with few healthy coping skills available.
This movie just hits different when are a Pole and you have some family stories about WW2. In my city Nazis hung 13 random Poles, because someone killed one German. It was right outside my great-grandmother window. Her family and all neighbors were forced to stand on street and to watch an execution. If she had bad luck, then Nazis could choose her or my grandma which was kid at the time to die. Then I wouldn't be writing this comment. Everytime when I watch movie like The Pianist and see that random executions it hits me so hard.
Hugs…. My in-laws too lived through something termed “war” but was really crimes against humanity, and yes horribly difficult to see portrayed on screen. At the same time, I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t know how much the Poles suffered under Nazi occupation…. And I’m from a part of Wisconsin with a large Polish immigrant (post-war, not hundreds of years back) population. It shouldn’t take a movie for the world to know about this 😭
One reason that this is so accurate is that the director is a Holocaust survivor. He was is the Krakow Ghetto as a child (the one depicted in Schindler's list).
Curiously, Steven Spielberg had proposed to Roman Polanski to do The Schindler's List, but he rejected it. I think he was thinking of doing his own version but it was not the time for him yet.
@@agenttheater5 Some of his behavior has been absolutely horrific. I can't help but wonder, though, whether his actions are the result of psychological damage. As a child, he witnessed horrible atrocities, was separated from his parents, had to live a lie while in hiding under the constant threat of death, and lost most relatives (including his mother) in the Holocaust. Later in life, when things seemed to be coming together, he lost his pregnant wife in the Manson murders. It wouldn't be surprising for someone who went through all that to be mentally unstable. He most likely needs serious help.
@@HelloMellowXVI sorry I didn't mean to start that. I was talking about my own conflicting feelings, I'll delete that if you're concerned it'll start everyone off on a rant
The history of the Warsaw occupation and uprisings is actually an amazing piece of human resilience. A good part if the city's population went underground, they actually created a community in the sewers beneath the city. Schools, shops, factories, hospitals and the postal service continued under the feet of Germans. That Ghetto uprising shown in the film was only one of the Uprisings that occurred during the war, but it was the biggest Jewish uprising in the war's history. While the uprising lasted around a month, he city's residents continued to fight throughout the entirety of the occupation. Unfortunately the city would also continue to suffer even after the Germans finally evacuated the city. As the Soviets approached the city, the last of the resistance rose up and attacked the Germans. Unfortunately the Soviets decided to halt on the outskirts of the city to allow the Germans to wipe out the Resistance, because they had no plan to liberate the city and didn't want anyone who could potentially challenge their occupation. The plan worked, the final Uprising used up the last of the Polish fighting forces and weapon stores. By the time the Soviets entered the city there was no one left to oppose their occupation. This decision to allow the Resistance to be destroyed probably was revenge for the Soviet defeat at the hands of the Poles in 1922. The Soviets already had experience with polish resistance and knew it would be easier to control the country if Warsaw could not resist the occupation. The Poles are very proud of their history of Resistance, it's practically in their genetic makeup at this point.
@crassgop It was done by the Germans, not by the mythical "Nazis". The term "Nazi" takes attention away from German responsibility for genocide, war crimes and the destruction of Europe.
This movie is a masterpiece, especially since it is one man's true story of how he survived the Holocaust. I have heard of real survivors watching this film and crying, and saying that this is exactly what living in those times was like. They seemed very grateful for the brutal accuracy that went into this movie.
I had a number of moments during this movie when I teared up, but for some reason when he got the can opener I completely lost it. This has to be one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
I remember the first time I saw this movie! I cried big Studio Ghibli tears when he played the piano to the german soldier. To me, it was like "If I'm going to die, I want to play with all my strength for the last time." I cried even harder when he was sitting in his hiding place holding the can of pickles crying. This movie is just beautifully shot and told.
Daniel Day Lewis in almost everything he did. He intentionally caught pneumonia for Gangs of New York and didn't allow modern medical attention because he thought his illness being under new medical methods wouldn't seem realistic.
The Germans were not fighting the Russians in Warsaw at that time, but the Polish resistance. Basically Polish civilians and some soldiers. The messed up thing was that while all this was happening just before the end of the war, the allied forces were already stationed in Warsaw on the other side of the Vistula river, but had orders not to interfere.
Yeah I may be wrong but this is the period when Germany and Russian decided to invade and share Poland, then there was a pact of no aggression between Germany and Sovietic Union that given time to Germany to settle the conlict in their favor on the front with France. After that Hitler attacked the Russians and proceeded to invade them too.
@@maxlove818 Germany and Soviet divided Poland between them back in 1939, the scene with the uprising in Warsawa took place when soviet forces were by the Vistula river but Stalin decided to let the Germans kill of the resistance fighters since he and his henchemen had plans to create a Moscow obeying Polish goverment after the war.
@@TheApilas truly thanks for correct me, I was really unsure about the time. SO here is likely the time way after when the Russians were finally on the offensive. Yeah I believe Stalin had no intention of let Poland slip away from the grasp of the Soviet Union. And in a way Germany was "lucky" that the first to reach Berlin were the Americans (as the Russians had all intent of destroy the city to the ground and make the population pay in blood). It could have changed drastically Europe.
I am polish and in the village where I live several families were hiding jewish families. Once the nazis came to check the houses and one family managed to temporarily hide the jews in the old barells (they were normally in the basement), but the other family wasn't so lucky and everybody (poles and jews) was shot. The ancestors of the jewish families who were lucky enough to survive still live here and help the local church (the mother of the family who saved them was a caretaker and cook for the priests residing there; priests were also interrogated and beaten often as they were also suspects). The city very near me was also the place from where the "first transport" of the jews and poles (and others) to Auschwitz was iniciated. The 14th of June is the date. This city was full of jewish people, but after the war few remained, most of them were murdered in the camp. The city really died without them. It's really important to remember.
The music you enjoyed so much was written by the greatest piano composer (imho), Frederic Chopin who, not coincidentally, was Polish like Szpilman. You can see and hear Szpilman playing the nocturne the was heard early on in the movie in a video that’s on RUclips. Suggest you give it a listen. It’s hauntingly beautiful.
An extremely small percentage of German POWs survived their Russian captivity. They were dishing out some serious payback for the German invasion of the USSR. Of course, both of those countries deserved each other as they both invaded and divided up Poland near the beginning of the war.
The German Officer Hosenfeld was in 2008 awarded with the Righteus among nations award, the same commemoration who was given to Oskar Schindler, the highest award given by the Israel state to people who helped jews during holocaust. He was the only german military member who obtained it. Hosenfeld was a nazi in the beginning, but later became to hate them after all the things they was doing to innocent people. He was a soldier who just fought for his country, but the conceil read in his personal diary his opinions about the acting of his government in Poland and its crimes. He felt embarrassed and he wrote "The jews and polish should have the right to spit us in the face".
The actor who plays Wilm Hosenfeld (The Nazi who helped Szpilman) is Thomas Kretschmann. Not sure I've ever seen him in anything that he wasn't excellent in.
So sad to know that Hollywood was producing some amazing movies at this time... a lot of the world had no real idea of what was going on! A film you may find interesting is The Great Dictator written by and staring Charlie Chaplin and released in I think 1940. It is a parody of the whole Nazi situation. Powerful stuff and in his later years Chaplin said if he had know the scale and horror of the Nazi end game he never would have made the film
this is one of my favorite movies! it's so much easier to digest for me than Schindler's List and Adrian Brody's acting is just *chef's kiss*. so glad you reacted to this one; there aren't many reactions to it on RUclips so thanks!
IIRC in Warsaw there were two separate uprisings against the Nazi occupation. Once in the Ghetto and then the much larger Warsaw uprising by just Poles in general, Jewish or not.
There is a real recording of Wladyslaw Szpilman playing the actual piece he played, the piece played in the movie Chopin Ballade No. 1 wasn't the piece he really played but was a chopin nocturne op posth no 20.
When Brody accepted the Oscar, he broke down. He explained what starvation actually felt like. So many people are still starving. Said that it took a year to climb out of that character. Amazing, how humanity has the capacity for such beauty and such evil. Great job.
There's also another ww2 movie sorta like The pianist, it's an Italian film called "Life is Beautiful" , it's about the Italian and Italian jews who were captured and place in labor camps in german occupied italy. A little light hearted but still serious enough.
The German officer that helped him was apart of the German Army, not the SS. The SS were the ones who mainly were responsible for the Holocaust. The German Army and SS had an intense rivalry and hated each other. Not all Germans were Nazis
There are plenty of movies that deal with this subject matter, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen most of them, but this one hit me harder than than the others. After watching it a few times, I think I know why. Usually there is more than one main character and we’re seeing their story as a shared journey. But here it’s just Adrian Brody. Once his entire life and family are gone he only interacts with people for short periods of time. The majority of the time he’s alone, barely surviving, just trying to live to see tomorrow. It’s much more personal because we are the only ones that go on this journey with him. I don’t know if I’m right or full of BS. Feel free to tell me which it is.
20:24 Poles. It was a Warsaw Uprising. My man's had supplies that should last only few days, they fought for 63. The russians stood behind the river, waiting, didn't help. 22:45 Hitler lost his shit when he heard about The Uprising and ordered the whole city to be destroyed. Literally. After the war, every working Pole was cotributing a share of their payment to rebuild Warsaw. The worst thing is germans wanted us to pay back for the land they "lost" after the war. Our president at the time mailed them a receip of all the costs of rebuilding our capital.
About Brody's method I've read he did, in fact, essentially starve himself. He said that even years later, the thing that's stuck with him the most is how feeling that type of hunger really changes a person. It takes over everything and it's all you can think about. Edit: When the Officer asks Spielman his name, and then responds "that's a good name for a pianist" spiel is German for "play", as in play an instrument. So his name translates to something like "Player Man".
I'm curious, did you think the Adrien Brody character killed the boy he was pulling from under the wall? If so, you're mistaken. The reason the boy died was that he was being beaten by German soldiers on the other side of the wall. So the Brody character was trying to save the boy.
Roman Polanski is one of my favorite directors! He has so many great movies: Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion, The Tenant, Death and the Maiden, The Ghost Writer, etc. However, with that said, I am appalled at what he did, and there can be no excuses for his actions. I feel the same way with Woody Allen.
theres an interview with a holocaust survivor on youtube by the name of Tova Friedman and she goes into depths on how it got that far and why there wasn't an uprising against the germans, very interesting. i suggest if you have questions about the holocaust watch that very heartbreaking but made me understand it better.
During WW2 Poland found itself between a rock and a hard place. In 1939 they were invaded by Germany who at the time allied themselves with Russia to split Poland. While the national socialist saw Jews as inferiors that needed to be exterminated, they didn't think much of the Polish people either. The plan for them and most Slavic was to either exterminate or use them as slave labor. Prior to the destruction of Warsaw, and the Soviet army was just outside the city. The Polish people decided to rise up and kick the Germans out. To greet the Russians as equals. Stalin would have none of this, he ordered his army to stop, and let the Germans take out all Polish resistance. Furthermore, he refused to allow Free Polish paratroopers that were fighting for the Western Allies to drop over the city, would not allow British or American bombers to fly over, and went so far as to limit any sort of resupply by the British and Americans. Germany on the other hand decided to punish the city by using criminal penal battalions, which included the Dirlewagner Brigade. A unit was so vile that other members of the armed forces were disgusted by their actions. Their General, Dr Oskar Dirlewagner, was a criminal, sadist, and pedophile that had served time in prison for the rape of a 14-year-old girl. With the city in ruins, the Poles gave up, but continue to resist the occupation of their homeland well past the end of WW2. An occupation that would last until 1990
What I found profound about this film is that, he's a musician and is surrounded by music all day before the war but during this time he hardly hears it at all and the film reflects this with a lack of a score. Particularly when people are killed we hear no music at all, because to give someone music in a film on death, gives them value and in this film their not treated with any kind of value at all. Therefore they don't get any music which makes the scenes all the more chilling to me.
Not really a movie but if you are looking for just a tiny bit of catharsis I would recommend watching the HBO miniseries Band Of Brothers. It’s about a group of paratroopers in Europe during the last year of the war
*finishes Apocalypse Now and Come and See* "LET'S WATCH THE PIANIST!"🙃 It's unfortunate that Roman Polanski is such a scumbag cause he is a great director. He really did redirect the horror he experienced as a victim of the Holocaust to some incredible films. Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, this, and Ghostwriter are some of my favorites. Also, I don't know if you've gotten to check out Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on your Quentin Tarantino list (as an aspiring actor I think you'll love that story) but Margot Robbie's husband in that movie is Roman Polanski (an actor plays Roman, not Roman in the part). Charlie Manson is famous because he had his followers kill Roman Polanski's wife, a lovely actress named Sharon Tate in '69 while she was pregnant with her and Roman's child. It's an event credited with the death of the 60's as an era. Basically, this man has had some truly horrible experiences in his life but he's still produced some incredible art. UNFORTUNATELY I will never applaud this man outside of his past body of work. Very important to note that he got a 13 year old girl drunk then raped her back in like the 70's. So fuck him obviously. It's a career I think worth analyzing but whilst being critical of the artist who made it due his vile actions in real life. Note: That nazi at the end is the ship captain from Peter Jackson's King Kong so I guess he liked this movie...and School of Rock. Speaking of which you better watch a comedy next for your sanity's sake I SWEAR. Don't hop right into all that Philip Seymour Hoffman sauce just yet.
Much of the music in the film was composed by Frederic Chopin, a famous Polish composer and pianist himself. The piece at the end is 'Le Grand Polonaise brillante'. The piece he plays for the German officer is 'Ballade No. 1 in G Minor'.
The Director - Roman Polanski - was like 10 yrs old when the Nazis invaded his country. He is Jewish and went into hiding and somehow survived, but I think most of his family were killed. He actually saw first hand what was depicted in this movie.
The scene with the old man in the wheelchair always reminds me of the PLO hijacking of the Achille Lauro and how they tossed Leon Klinghofer overboard in his wheelchair simply for being Jewish.
This is what happens when humans separate themselves from each other. Eventually you can convince an entire population that it's not even human beings that they're killing and hurting. That they're evil creatures who want to suck the life blood out of your country. Germany was brainwashed, and it's terrifying that such a country can be led to this. People aren't much smarter today, so it's important to understand why Jewish people were targeted so violently so as not to repeat the same things. Instead of just saying, "ah the Nazis were crazy psychopaths" really try to follow the thought process that led to this point. Because there are similar red flags that can be seen back then and more recently. It most likely isn't going to ever be as bad as the Holocaust, because of the access to informatiom we now have, but it's surprising how similar ideas repeat.
Wow. I literally just wrote a comment nearly identical. At the end of the comment, I pointed out how tribalism is taking over this country. I then mentioned how easy it is to k**l another human being when you've been convinced that they're less than human. Looks like YT deleted that comment, but you made great points and I agree with them all. You can literally go back through history and see the cycle repeat itself. I actually watched a recent special on the pygmy people in Asia and Africa. It seems like every genocide is preceded by a dehumanization campaign.
Damn man. You're really puttin yourself through it. Appreciate the humor and honesty you're bringing to these reactions. Sincerely. Shirt game remains on point as well. If you're still interested in this subject, check out Son of Saul (2015), Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). Tough watches (probably not good for the channel) but as insightful as anything I've watched to explain the inexplicable. Also check out Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning (1946). He writes about his experiences being a prisoner in a concentration camp and how to find meaning in the most dire consequences. It's got it's critics but I found it to be pretty inspiring.
Nice reaction. One thing that I always find interesting is that some people (like yourself) are actually surprised when it comes to the cruelty and brutality that mankind has done to each other. To this day there are many parts of the world that people would gladly tear you apart ...just for being different. C'est la vie.
If i remember right, they filmed the movie backward in the sense that they filmed the malnourished scenes first, so that he wouldn't have to starve while filming long hours, but don't hold me to it!
Scanned through your comments but couldn’t find one about the boy crawling under the wall. His back was broken by German soldiers stomping on him on the other side.
The good people do every day is done mostly in quiet, not making a giant show of itself. Whereas evil always wants attention and makes itself known far more often.
Many people only know about the jewish side of the holocaust, but many other groups were targeted as well. Including the disabled, gypsies, and many others the nazi regime deemed inferior.
Also many people only know about the bad things the Nazis did, whereas the Soviets were in many cases just as bad or worse. For example the Soviets had concentration camps too, the only reason not many people learn this is because they were on the winning side.
Exactly which was probably why they got rid of the old man in the wheelchair by throwing him to his death out of the balcony window. The Nazis saw those who were disabled or from different ethnic backgrounds as a "burden". 😔
@@francisbartoszewski2284 to bad they didn’t wipe each other out, if he had said I’m Jewish instead of Polish he might not have survived. Also don’t forget the Japanese army, easily as savage yet at least we hang a few of the German high command, nothing for those who ordered such atrocities as say the Rape of Nanjing for one or the order to kill 250k civilians because the Doolittle raid landed some bombs near the Imperial palace
During ww2 there was a few high rank German officers that was against the war but they had to serve their country. This German officer was Wilm Hosenfeld and there are a few biography videos of him here in RUclips.
I think the piano scene is that deep because Brody’s character believes that’s the last time he’s gonna play. Schindler’s list hurt me, but The Pianist broke me,
Roman Polanski is a gifted artist but a horrible person. Akin to how members of the S.S. fled to Argentina, Polanski fled to Switzerland to avoid extradition charges to the US for his crimes. Also, the scene where the individual in the wheel chair is tossed from a balcony was after the Nazis already sterilized half a million "undesirables" and Euthanized many, many crippled and "disfigured" in the eyes of Eugenics. Just so you understand why they would casually toss a crippled man from a balcony.
The first time I saw this movie they showed it in my music class in High school. It became one of my favorite movies. Made me learn piano just so I can play the music from this
The scene where the Captain asks him to play is so amazing. I'd like think he busted out that intense song because he was pretty certain he was going to die, and possibly never play anything again. So he was going to go out with a bang.
actually destruction of Warsaw in this movie is so real just look at this movie the check Warsaw post war pictures it's incredible and its so sad scarry and i dunno what else to say
This movie is what got me into Adrien Brody. Thank you MellVerse for this reaction. Going back to your viewing videos and appreciate a Black/POC actor/filmmaker perspective on these classics. Supporting always
Roman Polanski is an amazing filmmaker. Even though he's done some terrible things he's been through some equally terrible things. His wife and unborn baby murdered by the Manson Family, his family being murdered in the Holocaust while he survived. Amazing filmmaker and responsible for some true classics. Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, MacBeth.
@melverse I recomend Defiance starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber. It is about the Bielski brothers who were Jewish Partisans in Belarus and like Schindler saved about 1100 of their fellow jews.
Adrien, in this film, looks so much like my late uncle, it just breaks my heart. My uncle was in the Air Force, a Pathfinder, and so many of his friends didn’t come home. He was just a boy, he was sixteen when he joined. He came home broken. But he went on, he lived, and l adored him. This film is so powerful. Adrien is just magnificent. Magnificent.
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- “No Country For Old Men” , and “Fargo” (1996). Both Coen Brother Gems Mello! 💯🔥✊
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This movie is definitely one of my all time favorites ❤
He was phenomenal in this film. I remember when I saw this film a few months ago and it was a harrowing experience. thank you for checking out this movie mate, have a good day.
Mellverse did you know that Adrian Brody actually played the piano in the film
Adrien Brody, for this performance, is still the youngest actor to ever win the Best Actor Oscar. More than deserved.
That's not even accurate lol
@@j.j.4150 yes it is, he’s the youngest to win best actor.
@@j.j.4150 but it is.
@@j.j.4150The youngest to win for the best main actor,not supporting. The youngest in general is Tatum O'Neal; at 10, but she was supporting.
The scene with the man in the wheelchair hits extra hard when you remember that the Nazis considered anyone with disabilities as *less than human.*
Darwins book " on the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life " is a blueprint for the final solution . It spells out how different races were categorized and not as fully evolved as others. This mindset made it easier to justify killing the less evolved, as they were less worthy of life. The smithsonian museum is littered with jars of pigmies and aborigines preserved in formaldehyde, who were looked at subhuman. The Bible tells us all life is precious and we are all children of God. This is the reason a lot of born again Christians are so opposed to the work of Margaret Sanger , a known eugenicist who admired Hitlers work. She late founded Planned Parenthood. PPH offices target poor black neighborhoods, as Margaret called blacks "human weeds".
@@Embur12 Have you read either of these books? The bible preaches about the destruction of enemies and eternal damnation. Darwin states that nature is apathetic. What he doesn't mention, as it does not apply in most of the non human species, is the role of compassion in our progress. His book is not a blueprint for the Holocaust. The bible however, as other religious texts, justifies massacres in the name of belief. To me, as a rational, logical thinking person, that's abhorrent.
Go do some reading
@@Peter-wd1yo Wow you took the Bible out of context...I'm shocked. In the old testament God promised his people the land of Canaan, whose inhabitants practiced human sacrifice (children mainly) and worshiped false gods. They had to war to take over the land. Darwins was urged by colleagues to publish his work, but Darwin was extremely skeptical. Micro evolution takes place all the time , species adapt to conditions. Macro evolution is a fairy tale, as we should be able to find millions of intermediary changes in the fossil record, but we find none. We we have been fed a bunch of hoaxes like Lucy, and Piltdown man , where bones of animals and human are magically found in the same skeleton. As for Hitler, his Nuremberg speech from 1933 states that the gulf between our highest races and so called lower races of men is greater that the gulf between the ape and the lowest race of man. He also stated that if our ancestors hadn't fought against nature we would still be animals. Through the struggle with animals and perhaps other humans the earth was acquired by the right of the stronger. Sounds like survival of the fittest to me.
@Grand Slamwich I'm glad your mom didn't think that way. A baby is still dependant on its mother for survival months after birth. Does that make it any less valuable? Some Democrats are now advocating up to one month after birth to terminate the baby. So where does it end? Abortionists have been know to leave babies to die on countertops from exposure. Well those that survived the procedure (saline abortion). Survivors have testified before Congress and state legislatures, but again the left views them as refuse, or voices that really don't need to be heard.
@Grand Slamwich Google it dude...the Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell,, had pieces of kids in jars all over his office. Unsanitary as hell. Abortion survivors Melissa Ohden and Clairemont Culwell to name two. Do I need to do all your critical thinking also? Do a minimal amount of research before spouting out your facts.
And yet theres people in the present day. Who still think that none of this ever happened. Blows the mind.
far left and far right genocide deniers are scums on earth，just like their nazi and soviet masters
@Imperial Terra cringe bro
you are referring "this" as is a movie with creative freedoms is a document of history.
Holocaust happened and people who learn their history from movies and think that is what happened are silly
@Imperial Terra hmmm let's see, if you check history you'll see that Russia, India, china (before even WWI) with said regimes and alike, wiped out close to 100 million people altogether, if not way more.
During WWI and II we lost another 60-80 million people altogether.
None of these countries had a democracy - and this doesn't even include recent times of the past 70 years or so.
I understand you hate Democracy for some reason but I myself live and a social democrat country - not the best when you have democracy and socialism together like in Europe - it doesn't work unless you have a huge financial backup for all your programs and socialist ideas.
I mean it's happening right now in Palestine and no western nation cares about it so...
"This dude has some serious luck"
Everybody who survived the Holocaust in Poland got lucky somewhere along the line. Sometimes three or four times.
Not only the Holocaust...Any one who survived the german occupation of Poland had luck...
Spilman was a lucky survivor
Of course unfortunately not only in Poland but pretty much all over Europe.
@@n_other_1604 not rly, compare the occupation in France or Holland to occupation in Poland... French were not "Untermensch"... In France for hiding Jews you would get a financial penelty, worst scenario arrest... In Poland and rest of eastern front countries, death penelty to all members of the family not only for the one that did hide the Jews. French did not have "łapanka" (Google it) in France and other Western countries you did not have sings "nur fur deutche" in tramps, restaurants, parks...
@@bartoszk4299 I'm talking mainly (not only) about the jewish communities which existed in Germany itself, Austria, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania,, Soviet Union,... or do you think there is a difference between for example hungary & Czechia compared to Poland?
Wilm Hosenfeld was the name of the German officer who helped Szpilman. He joined the Nazi Party for political reasons but quickly became disillusioned with their policies. Leaving the Nazi party or the SS is virtually impossible, so he used his position in the SS to help save Poles, Jews, and Soviet prisoners of war whenever he could. In 2009 he was recognized by the State of Israel as Yad Vashem ("Righteous Among the Nations"), a name for non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust. He was a good man in a horrible situation.
Hosenfeld wasn’t SS. He was a captain in the Wehrmacht - the regular army.
Hosenfeld was in the Heer, the regular German army, not the SS
Correct, he was Wehrmacht. Other than that the op got the rest right. It’s sad that the Russians killed so many innocent Germans all because they considered it an eye for an eye. The Russians showed us how barbaric they truly are when they committed war crimes left and right after entering Germany. Killing and raping civilians. And let’s not forget that the Russians invaded Poland with Germany and split it in half.
@Jay Michael Russ "I remember myself in my captain’s shoulder-boards and the forward march of my battery through East Prussia, enshrouded in fire, and I say: 'So were *we* any better?'" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Why Poles?
My great grandfather was someone I always perceived as grumpy. It wasn't until he passed away a couple of years ago that I found out he was in a concentration camp. Made me think twice before passing judgment on people
A very good point. So many people I regularly interact with, I can tell they're generally not happy people, and in some cases, they're probably dealing with trauma they never saw to treating.
That’s why a lot of us Baby Boomers are they way we are. Many of our Parents went through the Great Depression and WW2. Many of them lived with PTSD and terrible guilt over what they had to do to survive. They did the best they could do for their children, just like we did for ours. We are all products of our time.
Yeah, our grandparents had no PTSD treatment. And I know my mine all desperately needed it. My soul aches for all our ancestors from all walks and environments endured with few healthy coping skills available.
This movie just hits different when are a Pole and you have some family stories about WW2. In my city Nazis hung 13 random Poles, because someone killed one German. It was right outside my great-grandmother window. Her family and all neighbors were forced to stand on street and to watch an execution. If she had bad luck, then Nazis could choose her or my grandma which was kid at the time to die. Then I wouldn't be writing this comment. Everytime when I watch movie like The Pianist and see that random executions it hits me so hard.
@crassgop They planned to keep death camps to late 50's early 60's.
Hugs…. My in-laws too lived through something termed “war” but was really crimes against humanity, and yes horribly difficult to see portrayed on screen.
At the same time, I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t know how much the Poles suffered under Nazi occupation…. And I’m from a part of Wisconsin with a large Polish immigrant (post-war, not hundreds of years back) population.
It shouldn’t take a movie for the world to know about this 😭
One reason that this is so accurate is that the director is a Holocaust survivor. He was is the Krakow Ghetto as a child (the one depicted in Schindler's list).
Curiously, Steven Spielberg had proposed to Roman Polanski to do The Schindler's List, but he rejected it. I think he was thinking of doing his own version but it was not the time for him yet.
@@agenttheater5 Some of his behavior has been absolutely horrific. I can't help but wonder, though, whether his actions are the result of psychological damage. As a child, he witnessed horrible atrocities, was separated from his parents, had to live a lie while in hiding under the constant threat of death, and lost most relatives (including his mother) in the Holocaust. Later in life, when things seemed to be coming together, he lost his pregnant wife in the Manson murders. It wouldn't be surprising for someone who went through all that to be mentally unstable. He most likely needs serious help.
Yo Can We Not Start "Cancel Culture Talk" On My Channel....
@@HelloMellowXVI sorry I didn't mean to start that. I was talking about my own conflicting feelings, I'll delete that if you're concerned it'll start everyone off on a rant
Nah You Can Keep It Up, I Respect Your Thoughts And You Have The Right To Speak Them. I Just Put That To Stop It Early From Any Arguements
The history of the Warsaw occupation and uprisings is actually an amazing piece of human resilience.
A good part if the city's population went underground, they actually created a community in the sewers beneath the city. Schools, shops, factories, hospitals and the postal service continued under the feet of Germans.
That Ghetto uprising shown in the film was only one of the Uprisings that occurred during the war, but it was the biggest Jewish uprising in the war's history. While the uprising lasted around a month, he city's residents continued to fight throughout the entirety of the occupation.
Unfortunately the city would also continue to suffer even after the Germans finally evacuated the city.
As the Soviets approached the city, the last of the resistance rose up and attacked the Germans. Unfortunately the Soviets decided to halt on the outskirts of the city to allow the Germans to wipe out the Resistance, because they had no plan to liberate the city and didn't want anyone who could potentially challenge their occupation. The plan worked, the final Uprising used up the last of the Polish fighting forces and weapon stores. By the time the Soviets entered the city there was no one left to oppose their occupation.
This decision to allow the Resistance to be destroyed probably was revenge for the Soviet defeat at the hands of the Poles in 1922. The Soviets already had experience with polish resistance and knew it would be easier to control the country if Warsaw could not resist the occupation.
The Poles are very proud of their history of Resistance, it's practically in their genetic makeup at this point.
Kanal, 1957 film by Wajda
@crassgop It was done by the Germans, not by the mythical "Nazis". The term "Nazi" takes attention away from German responsibility for genocide, war crimes and the destruction of Europe.
This movie is a masterpiece, especially since it is one man's true story of how he survived the Holocaust. I have heard of real survivors watching this film and crying, and saying that this is exactly what living in those times was like. They seemed very grateful for the brutal accuracy that went into this movie.
"this dude has some serious luck."
Anyone who was able to survive those nightmarish times had some sort of luck or a guardian angel watching them.
He didnt kill the boy, the soldiers that were on other side of the wall stomp on his spine
😲😰😭
I always wondered what they did to him beyond that wall and knowing this makes that scene so much harder to watch😣
I had a number of moments during this movie when I teared up, but for some reason when he got the can opener I completely lost it. This has to be one of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
I remember the first time I saw this movie! I cried big Studio Ghibli tears when he played the piano to the german soldier. To me, it was like "If I'm going to die, I want to play with all my strength for the last time." I cried even harder when he was sitting in his hiding place holding the can of pickles crying. This movie is just beautifully shot and told.
Right, like he was living again by playing, like music was as precious as food and water.
If you want to see an actor go to THE EXTREME for a role, try Christian Bale in
THE MACHINIST
or VICE
@@n_other_1604 Yes, you should definitely watch this movie.
Daniel Day Lewis in almost everything he did. He intentionally caught pneumonia for Gangs of New York and didn't allow modern medical attention because he thought his illness being under new medical methods wouldn't seem realistic.
Or American psycho :D
This movie was hard to watch, the whole thing was just heartbreaking.
The Germans were not fighting the Russians in Warsaw at that time, but the Polish resistance. Basically Polish civilians and some soldiers. The messed up thing was that while all this was happening just before the end of the war, the allied forces were already stationed in Warsaw on the other side of the Vistula river, but had orders not to interfere.
Yeah I may be wrong but this is the period when Germany and Russian decided to invade and share Poland, then there was a pact of no aggression between Germany and Sovietic Union that given time to Germany to settle the conlict in their favor on the front with France. After that Hitler attacked the Russians and proceeded to invade them too.
@@maxlove818 better dead than red
@@maxlove818 Germany and Soviet divided Poland between them back in 1939, the scene with the uprising in Warsawa took place when soviet forces were by the Vistula river but Stalin decided to let the Germans kill of the resistance fighters since he and his henchemen had plans to create a Moscow obeying Polish goverment after the war.
@@TheApilas truly thanks for correct me, I was really unsure about the time. SO here is likely the time way after when the Russians were finally on the offensive. Yeah I believe Stalin had no intention of let Poland slip away from the grasp of the Soviet Union. And in a way Germany was "lucky" that the first to reach Berlin were the Americans (as the Russians had all intent of destroy the city to the ground and make the population pay in blood). It could have changed drastically Europe.
And after the German lost,the polish ppl thought that soviet is good but they're same like German
The guy who plays the German officer who helps Szpilman is also in Downfall and Stalingrad.
@Damir Saric The movies I've seen him in he's always plays a nazi lol.
He also played the ship captain in Peter Jackson's King Kong, where Adrien Brody acts as well 😁
@@D4rkn3ss2000 oh yeah you’re right! Lol
Mello! *MY COUSIN VINNY!!* 🔥😂✊
Now you have to watch The Boy In The Striped Pajamas! ❤️
You should definitely watch Italian movie Life is Beautiful, the best tragic-comedy ever!
I am polish and in the village where I live several families were hiding jewish families. Once the nazis came to check the houses and one family managed to temporarily hide the jews in the old barells (they were normally in the basement), but the other family wasn't so lucky and everybody (poles and jews) was shot. The ancestors of the jewish families who were lucky enough to survive still live here and help the local church (the mother of the family who saved them was a caretaker and cook for the priests residing there; priests were also interrogated and beaten often as they were also suspects).
The city very near me was also the place from where the "first transport" of the jews and poles (and others) to Auschwitz was iniciated. The 14th of June is the date. This city was full of jewish people, but after the war few remained, most of them were murdered in the camp. The city really died without them. It's really important to remember.
The music you enjoyed so much was written by the greatest piano composer (imho), Frederic Chopin who, not coincidentally, was Polish like Szpilman. You can see and hear Szpilman playing the nocturne the was heard early on in the movie in a video that’s on RUclips. Suggest you give it a listen. It’s hauntingly beautiful.
I agree Chopin is the greatest piano composer for me too and he's French/Polish. If I remember correctly his father was French and his mother Polish!
There are other great composers for the piano but Chopin beats them all.
Wilm Hosenfeld was a Catholic who saved Spilmans life but died in Siberia.
An extremely small percentage of German POWs survived their Russian captivity. They were dishing out some serious payback for the German invasion of the USSR.
Of course, both of those countries deserved each other as they both invaded and divided up Poland near the beginning of the war.
So many good men died in that war.
Most good german died,the bad one surrender to the amerikans
Great Brody performance in The Grand Budapest Hotel. wonder how you’d like a Wes Anderson movie…
The German Officer Hosenfeld was in 2008 awarded with the Righteus among nations award, the same commemoration who was given to Oskar Schindler, the highest award given by the Israel state to people who helped jews during holocaust. He was the only german military member who obtained it.
Hosenfeld was a nazi in the beginning, but later became to hate them after all the things they was doing to innocent people. He was a soldier who just fought for his country, but the conceil read in his personal diary his opinions about the acting of his government in Poland and its crimes. He felt embarrassed and he wrote "The jews and polish should have the right to spit us in the face".
The actor who plays Wilm Hosenfeld (The Nazi who helped Szpilman) is Thomas Kretschmann. Not sure I've ever seen him in anything that he wasn't excellent in.
He was in Peter Jackson‘s King Kong the Ship Captain.
He is also in Stalingrad 1996
@@КоваленкоСаша-д7р And he was also in Big Mamas House 2
Thomas Kretschmann is going to play a role in Indiana Jones 5
So sad to know that Hollywood was producing some amazing movies at this time... a lot of the world had no real idea of what was going on! A film you may find interesting is The Great Dictator written by and staring Charlie Chaplin and released in I think 1940. It is a parody of the whole Nazi situation. Powerful stuff and in his later years Chaplin said if he had know the scale and horror of the Nazi end game he never would have made the film
this is one of my favorite movies! it's so much easier to digest for me than Schindler's List and Adrian Brody's acting is just *chef's kiss*. so glad you reacted to this one; there aren't many reactions to it on RUclips so thanks!
IIRC in Warsaw there were two separate uprisings against the Nazi occupation. Once in the Ghetto and then the much larger Warsaw uprising by just Poles in general, Jewish or not.
Glad you watched this Mello. It is of vital importance that what happened at that time never be forgotten.
There is a real recording of Wladyslaw Szpilman playing the actual piece he played, the piece played in the movie Chopin Ballade No. 1 wasn't the piece he really played but was a chopin nocturne op posth no 20.
When Brody accepted the Oscar, he broke down. He explained what starvation actually felt like. So many people are still starving. Said that it took a year to climb out of that character.
Amazing, how humanity has the capacity for such beauty and such evil. Great job.
Now when you buy Szpilman's memoir 'The Pianist' they also include pages from the German soldiers diary.
There's also another ww2 movie sorta like The pianist, it's an Italian film called "Life is Beautiful" , it's about the Italian and Italian jews who were captured and place in labor camps in german occupied italy. A little light hearted but still serious enough.
The German officer that helped him was apart of the German Army, not the SS. The SS were the ones who mainly were responsible for the Holocaust. The German Army and SS had an intense rivalry and hated each other. Not all Germans were Nazis
There are plenty of movies that deal with this subject matter, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen most of them, but this one hit me harder than than the others. After watching it a few times, I think I know why. Usually there is more than one main character and we’re seeing their story as a shared journey. But here it’s just Adrian Brody. Once his entire life and family are gone he only interacts with people for short periods of time. The majority of the time he’s alone, barely surviving, just trying to live to see tomorrow. It’s much more personal because we are the only ones that go on this journey with him. I don’t know if I’m right or full of BS. Feel free to tell me which it is.
You're right, it's what makes this film so immersive.
Thank you for the reaction to this movie. Yoy might be the first to do so on RUclips. A very haunting movie.
20:24 Poles. It was a Warsaw Uprising. My man's had supplies that should last only few days, they fought for 63. The russians stood behind the river, waiting, didn't help.
22:45 Hitler lost his shit when he heard about The Uprising and ordered the whole city to be destroyed. Literally. After the war, every working Pole was cotributing a share of their payment to rebuild Warsaw. The worst thing is germans wanted us to pay back for the land they "lost" after the war. Our president at the time mailed them a receip of all the costs of rebuilding our capital.
No wonder the Poles will never trust Russians.
About Brody's method I've read he did, in fact, essentially starve himself. He said that even years later, the thing that's stuck with him the most is how feeling that type of hunger really changes a person. It takes over everything and it's all you can think about.
Edit: When the Officer asks Spielman his name, and then responds "that's a good name for a pianist" spiel is German for "play", as in play an instrument. So his name translates to something like "Player Man".
I'm curious, did you think the Adrien Brody character killed the boy he was pulling from under the wall? If so, you're mistaken. The reason the boy died was that he was being beaten by German soldiers on the other side of the wall. So the Brody character was trying to save the boy.
20:08 Its not the Mafia my friend. Its a beginning of Warsaw Uprising, one of the biggest urban battles in ww2.
Roman Polanski is one of my favorite directors! He has so many great movies: Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion, The Tenant, Death and the Maiden, The Ghost Writer, etc. However, with that said, I am appalled at what he did, and there can be no excuses for his actions. I feel the same way with Woody Allen.
Absolutely. I just pretend there’s two different Polanskis.
Fun fact about the director, Roman Polanski, the guy is actually a holocaust survivor
theres an interview with a holocaust survivor on youtube by the name of Tova Friedman and she goes into depths on how it got that far and why there wasn't an uprising against the germans, very interesting. i suggest if you have questions about the holocaust watch that very heartbreaking but made me understand it better.
Roman Polanski couldn't come to the US to the Oscars to receive his Oscar. Because there's a warrant out for him.
I recommend watch True Grit (2010). One of the best westerns I’ve seen in the past 20 years.
During WW2 Poland found itself between a rock and a hard place. In 1939 they were invaded by Germany who at the time allied themselves with Russia to split Poland. While the national socialist saw Jews as inferiors that needed to be exterminated, they didn't think much of the Polish people either. The plan for them and most Slavic was to either exterminate or use them as slave labor.
Prior to the destruction of Warsaw, and the Soviet army was just outside the city. The Polish people decided to rise up and kick the Germans out. To greet the Russians as equals. Stalin would have none of this, he ordered his army to stop, and let the Germans take out all Polish resistance. Furthermore, he refused to allow Free Polish paratroopers that were fighting for the Western Allies to drop over the city, would not allow British or American bombers to fly over, and went so far as to limit any sort of resupply by the British and Americans.
Germany on the other hand decided to punish the city by using criminal penal battalions, which included the Dirlewagner Brigade. A unit was so vile that other members of the armed forces were disgusted by their actions. Their General, Dr Oskar Dirlewagner, was a criminal, sadist, and pedophile that had served time in prison for the rape of a 14-year-old girl.
With the city in ruins, the Poles gave up, but continue to resist the occupation of their homeland well past the end of WW2. An occupation that would last until 1990
Sad fact: his family was sent to Treblinka, one of the worst Nazi death camps of them all. They were all murdered. :(
I've always wondered what happened to them :( that's so sad
I like that you took the time to appreciate Szpilman's performances. Great classical pianists may be the best musicians on the planet.
Also, Adrien brody's lost something like 70 lbs for this role.
What I found profound about this film is that, he's a musician and is surrounded by music all day before the war but during this time he hardly hears it at all and the film reflects this with a lack of a score. Particularly when people are killed we hear no music at all, because to give someone music in a film on death, gives them value and in this film their not treated with any kind of value at all. Therefore they don't get any music which makes the scenes all the more chilling to me.
I advise you to watch The Thin Red Line. A war movie that hits differently.
Most underrated war film ever
He won the Oscar and kissed Halle Berry (she was the presenter) when he won.
I highly recommend "Downfall" (2004)!
People are always shocked when they see what humanity can do to each other. I’m shocked they don’t know what humanity does to each other
I wouldn’t bother with trying to find any reasoning behind senseless slaughter,it’s futile.
Not really a movie but if you are looking for just a tiny bit of catharsis I would recommend watching the HBO miniseries Band Of Brothers. It’s about a group of paratroopers in Europe during the last year of the war
*finishes Apocalypse Now and Come and See* "LET'S WATCH THE PIANIST!"🙃
It's unfortunate that Roman Polanski is such a scumbag cause he is a great director. He really did redirect the horror he experienced as a victim of the Holocaust to some incredible films. Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, this, and Ghostwriter are some of my favorites. Also, I don't know if you've gotten to check out Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on your Quentin Tarantino list (as an aspiring actor I think you'll love that story) but Margot Robbie's husband in that movie is Roman Polanski (an actor plays Roman, not Roman in the part). Charlie Manson is famous because he had his followers kill Roman Polanski's wife, a lovely actress named Sharon Tate in '69 while she was pregnant with her and Roman's child. It's an event credited with the death of the 60's as an era. Basically, this man has had some truly horrible experiences in his life but he's still produced some incredible art. UNFORTUNATELY I will never applaud this man outside of his past body of work. Very important to note that he got a 13 year old girl drunk then raped her back in like the 70's. So fuck him obviously. It's a career I think worth analyzing but whilst being critical of the artist who made it due his vile actions in real life.
Note: That nazi at the end is the ship captain from Peter Jackson's King Kong so I guess he liked this movie...and School of Rock. Speaking of which you better watch a comedy next for your sanity's sake I SWEAR. Don't hop right into all that Philip Seymour Hoffman sauce just yet.
Much of the music in the film was composed by Frederic Chopin, a famous Polish composer and pianist himself.
The piece at the end is 'Le Grand Polonaise brillante'.
The piece he plays for the German officer is 'Ballade No. 1 in G Minor'.
The Director - Roman Polanski - was like 10 yrs old when the Nazis invaded his country. He is Jewish and went into hiding and somehow survived, but I think most of his family were killed. He actually saw first hand what was depicted in this movie.
That Chopin piece at the beginning and later on is my favorite composition. Am i using correct terms?
Been waiting for you to do this movie. Masterpiece.
In this Movie Russians came after all the scene that those Nazis fighting were Polish and Jewish resistance
The scene with the old man in the wheelchair always reminds me of the PLO hijacking of the Achille Lauro and how they tossed Leon Klinghofer overboard in his wheelchair simply for being Jewish.
This is what happens when humans separate themselves from each other. Eventually you can convince an entire population that it's not even human beings that they're killing and hurting. That they're evil creatures who want to suck the life blood out of your country. Germany was brainwashed, and it's terrifying that such a country can be led to this. People aren't much smarter today, so it's important to understand why Jewish people were targeted so violently so as not to repeat the same things. Instead of just saying, "ah the Nazis were crazy psychopaths" really try to follow the thought process that led to this point. Because there are similar red flags that can be seen back then and more recently. It most likely isn't going to ever be as bad as the Holocaust, because of the access to informatiom we now have, but it's surprising how similar ideas repeat.
Wow. I literally just wrote a comment nearly identical. At the end of the comment, I pointed out how tribalism is taking over this country. I then mentioned how easy it is to k**l another human being when you've been convinced that they're less than human. Looks like YT deleted that comment, but you made great points and I agree with them all.
You can literally go back through history and see the cycle repeat itself. I actually watched a recent special on the pygmy people in Asia and Africa. It seems like every genocide is preceded by a dehumanization campaign.
Damn man. You're really puttin yourself through it. Appreciate the humor and honesty you're bringing to these reactions. Sincerely. Shirt game remains on point as well.
If you're still interested in this subject, check out Son of Saul (2015), Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). Tough watches (probably not good for the channel) but as insightful as anything I've watched to explain the inexplicable.
Also check out Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning (1946). He writes about his experiences being a prisoner in a concentration camp and how to find meaning in the most dire consequences. It's got it's critics but I found it to be pretty inspiring.
Nice reaction. One thing that I always find interesting is that some people (like yourself) are actually surprised when it comes to the cruelty and brutality that mankind has done to each other. To this day there are many parts of the world that people would gladly tear you apart ...just for being different. C'est la vie.
This is the movie that inspired me to learn piano. I had to learn the price he played for the Nazi( Chopin ballade no. 1). I eventually did 😊.
You'd love The Darjeeling Limited
"Humans are an enigma, they've loved each other so much, as they have hated each other,
Adam - Nier Automata
If i remember right, they filmed the movie backward in the sense that they filmed the malnourished scenes first, so that he wouldn't have to starve while filming long hours, but don't hold me to it!
I prefer this over Schindler's list. They're both great movies but I prefer this one.
Scanned through your comments but couldn’t find one about the boy crawling under the wall. His back was broken by German soldiers stomping on him on the other side.
Oh man we gotta bring you back down with some light entertainment.
How about Top Secret?
@@Peter-wd1yo That's a good one.
The good people do every day is done mostly in quiet, not making a giant show of itself. Whereas evil always wants attention and makes itself known far more often.
Many people only know about the jewish side of the holocaust, but many other groups were targeted as well. Including the disabled, gypsies, and many others the nazi regime deemed inferior.
Also many people only know about the bad things the Nazis did, whereas the Soviets were in many cases just as bad or worse. For example the Soviets had concentration camps too, the only reason not many people learn this is because they were on the winning side.
Exactly which was probably why they got rid of the old man in the wheelchair by throwing him to his death out of the balcony window. The Nazis saw those who were disabled or from different ethnic backgrounds as a "burden". 😔
@@francisbartoszewski2284 to bad they didn’t wipe each other out, if he had said I’m Jewish instead of Polish he might not have survived. Also don’t forget the Japanese army, easily as savage yet at least we hang a few of the German high command, nothing for those who ordered such atrocities as say the Rape of Nanjing for one or the order to kill 250k civilians because the Doolittle raid landed some bombs near the Imperial palace
During ww2 there was a few high rank German officers that was against the war but they had to serve their country. This German officer was Wilm Hosenfeld and there are a few biography videos of him here in RUclips.
I think the piano scene is that deep because Brody’s character believes that’s the last time he’s gonna play. Schindler’s list hurt me, but The Pianist broke me,
I cried and I laughed. I realized I didn't know how to feel at "what's with the fucking coat!?" "I'm cold.." The movie is captivating
The ending to this movie was god tier.
Someone said, "No good deed goes unpunished."
Wilm Hasenfeld, is the name of the German officer. He died in a Russian concentration camp.✍️😷
And then the Russians went on to kill 2 times what the nazis killed in their gulags.....makes you wonder, who really was the bad guy?
Roman Polanski is a gifted artist but a horrible person. Akin to how members of the S.S. fled to Argentina, Polanski fled to Switzerland to avoid extradition charges to the US for his crimes.
Also, the scene where the individual in the wheel chair is tossed from a balcony was after the Nazis already sterilized half a million "undesirables" and Euthanized many, many crippled and "disfigured" in the eyes of Eugenics. Just so you understand why they would casually toss a crippled man from a balcony.
The first time I saw this movie they showed it in my music class in High school. It became one of my favorite movies. Made me learn piano just so I can play the music from this
Try "Life is beautiful"- a masterpiece as well
The scene where the Captain asks him to play is so amazing. I'd like think he busted out that intense song because he was pretty certain he was going to die, and possibly never play anything again. So he was going to go out with a bang.
that's what I was thinking, he probably did think that so he wanted to enjoy the last moment
Mellverse watch the great raid please
We were made to watch this in school when I was in year 9 aged 13. That scene with the wheelchair absolutely terrified me. Gave me awful nightmares.
When POC talk about white privilege, we Jews remember these parts of our history from a mere 60 years ago.
If movies about the Holocaust piss you off congratulations you're an ordinary human being
If you're on a WW2 movie kick then I would highly recommend the french movie, Days of Glory. It's wonderful and heartbreaking.
Great movie from a horrible person.
This is why Ultron decided to exterminate humans after seconds on the internet. He was like nah they gotta go
actually destruction of Warsaw in this movie is so real just look at this movie the check Warsaw post war pictures it's incredible and its so sad scarry and i dunno what else to say
This movie is what got me into Adrien Brody. Thank you MellVerse for this reaction. Going back to your viewing videos and appreciate a Black/POC actor/filmmaker perspective on these classics. Supporting always
Roman Polanski is an amazing filmmaker. Even though he's done some terrible things he's been through some equally terrible things. His wife and unborn baby murdered by the Manson Family, his family being murdered in the Holocaust while he survived. Amazing filmmaker and responsible for some true classics. Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, MacBeth.
His mother was also pregnant when she was killed in a concentration camp.
Yes... One of my all time favorite movies. Thanks for reacting to this
@melverse I recomend Defiance starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber. It is about the Bielski brothers who were Jewish Partisans in Belarus and like Schindler saved about 1100 of their fellow jews.
Adrien, in this film, looks so much like my late uncle, it just breaks my heart. My uncle was in the Air Force, a Pathfinder, and so many of his friends didn’t come home. He was just a boy, he was sixteen when he joined. He came home broken. But he went on, he lived, and l adored him. This film is so powerful. Adrien is just magnificent. Magnificent.