The Pianist (2002) is NIGHTMARE FUEL

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

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[@HJ-ju4ui]

The most haunting part for me about the film is how swiftly but unnoticeable the oppression of the jews happens. First its the little things like not being allowed in a cafe and then its the armbands and all of the sudden theyre living in ghettos. Sends chills up your spine.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

Totally agree, you can see the hallmarks gradually creeping up, working their way in

[@loubloom1941]

A convincing piece of propaganda indeed.

[@lars7747]

@@loubloom1941 another edgy primary school drop out baiting for attention?

[@doctorquid]

​@@loubloom1941be specific. What is being pushed here? The movie, the events? What is your stance in specific terms?

[@TrueNativeScot]

quite unbelievable, one could even say

[@ZergrushEddie]

One thing that hit me most about The Pianist is the "stripped down" nature of it. Most movies about a terrible incident make the story bigger by connecting it to even larger parts. In Schindler's List, we see the concentration camps being operated by Germans, we see Schindler transform from war profiteer to savior; for lack of a better term, we get to see inside the Nazi genocidal machine. But The Pianist is much smaller, more intimate. The movie never shows what happened the Szpillman's family, it only shows his horror as he already knows what will happen. Why is he alive? Because an old friend pulled him from the line and said "run." We don't see a girl in a red coat for emphasis, we only see Szpilman trying to survive. In Schindler's List, it fills me with horror and indignant rage of why anyone wouldn't take up arms to destroy that horrific monster. In The Pianist, it puts it down to Earth. I want to say I would spit in the Nazi's face and say "I will not wear an armband, shoot me!" but, no. Spzilman is the answer to how most of us would react, and it pulls the movie from escapist horror to true horror.

[@simonetta-ta]

I totally agree. So well said Eddie! ! !

[@JackBonano]

Well said man, glad I took my time to read your comment.

[@YukaiRyujin]

I could never bring myself to watching The Pianist. Not since I was 7. My dad was watching it in the basement while we were eating dinner, and then I could here the boy’s screams from that one scene. I asked my mom what that was because it sounded weird, and she described the scene in detail. My 7 year old brain couldn’t understand why someone would just kill a child… and that’s how I learned about the Holocaust

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

Thank you for sharing your experiences Yukai. That sounds like a really powerful yet emotional memory for you on how you discovered not only the film but of this hellacious period of history - Connor

[@SethHixie]

Nah m8 its a good watch with the kids

[@richarddiaz1241]

@@SethHixie back it wit Come and see.

[@Patriotic_Eagle1995]

​@@SethHixie Totally correct - the film was made with kids in mind. Polanski loves kids. He really, really loves them.

[@scottanos9981]

​@@Patriotic_Eagle1995 One might say he loves feeling something like a child inside.

[@thepaintingbanjo8894]

That scene in the end where Szpilman played for one of the only benevolent nazi officers who then helped him survive a bit longer is one for the film history books.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

It certainly is. A masterful scene. Simple yet so full of meaning - Connor

[@Ailurophile1984]

Not a Nazi. A Wehrmacht officer

[@doctorrobert1339]

@@Ailurophile1984 Still Nazis

[@stray_dog3960]

@@doctorrobert1339 schindler was also a nazi.

[@Alexq79-]

@@doctorrobert1339 hard to say. Drafted soldiers forced to fight didn’t really have a choice, no?

[@johnwall7968]

“The Pianist’s use of children shook me to my core.” Ah yes, Roman Polanski has a long history of using children to horrific effect….

[@liamweaver2944]

Bruuuuhh

[@Z-q5q]

i think polanski is just traumatized, his mind is fucked, imagine being in auschwitz, loosing ur mother in ausschwitz, then growing up in post war europe, going to america with hope, then some random fucks kill ur friends and pregnant wife, i mean yes hes fucked and should be watched 24/7, but if u look back u can see whyhe is so fucked,

[@SethHixie]

What I heard: "The P*nis' use of children shook me to the core"

[@sculptureofsound2]

Exactly

[@MsRadred6116]

Daaaaang 😮

[@nukacola3745]

One of the hardest movies I've ever forced myself to watch. Randomly came across it on my Netflix recommended for whatever reason in 2020, right when Covid lockdowns were in full swing and everyone was in a panic. I was in my second year of university, living alone away from home in an apartment near my campus, and it was the first time I'd ever spent going days or weeks without seeing or speaking to another person. This movie made me tearing up and crying throughout the entire runtime, and by the time it finished, I just felt empty and disheartened. Looked up and read the life stories of many of the people shown in the film and all the horrible things they endured for years. It really gave me more of an appreciation for life and changed my outlook on a few things

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

It's a difficult watch for certain, though one silver lining from the experience is your ability to change your outlook and have a greater appreciation of life. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us, all the best - Connor

[@Jacintojudio3478]

I watched this movie at school lol great movie and really made me appreciate what great acting looks like

[@daveywaveypavey]

The part where the mother was bawling her eyes out after killing her baby because it wouldn’t stop crying almost made me stop watching this movie, this movie is gut wrenching.

[@madrixx4666]

I can never forget the way Adrien Brody says "I am cold" at the end scene. The three words hold so much of emotions to it. It gives me goosebumps everytime I think about it.

[@RafiOmar83]

The first thing that took my breath away while watching the Pianist was the scene in which an old lady was killed by the Nazis in the ghetto, no one removed her body, which you could see on the street in every scene afterwards, like her body - the body of a human being - was reduced to nothing more than a pothole to be avoided. And Adrien Brody's acting - my God. In that last scene, when he finally gets to play a piano after such a long time after all the horrors, the expression on his face was that of a man who has been starving for ages finally finding some food. Everyone should watch this movie at least once in their lives.

[@ModernVintage31]

The scene with the Szpilman patriarch spending an enormous amount of money for one small caramel, then cutting it up with his pocketknife so that the family could share it… brings me to tears. Then the potato. Then the pickles. The use of food (or lack of) is a pretty basic dramatic device, but it works. This movie profoundly affected me.

[@OpalLeigh]

The actor who played his father really came off like the most sweet gentleman 😢 which is well cast, because Szpilman describes his father blowing him kisses being loaded into the cattle car knowing he will never see his son again 😭

[@BobDingus-bh3pd]

I wonder if it was symbolic of the many Jews more concerned with their personal finances than their immanent destruction. As the third reich crept closer and closer. The father asks the boy “what are you going to do with the money?” As if he’s saying to all Jews “what are you doing? you can’t spend the money if we’re all dead!” He even mentions the American Jewish bankers with economic influence not doing anything to advocate for polish Jews. As if they’re more concerned with their wallets than their own people.

[@TheDankCat127]

I casually clicked on this movie recently when it popped up in my suggestions. Needless to say, I was not prepared for how unrelentingly bleak and miserable this movie was. You don’t even feel happy for Szpilman at the end. Just empty, like the ruins of Warsaw.

[@blackalien6873]

The letters Hosenfeld wrote to his wife during the war shows that he was not a bad man. He wanted Germany to lose the war. Spielman was not the only person he helped. He also wrote letters to his wife from the Soviet POW camps and he never complained about his fate, instead he told his wife never to worry about him. Even weeks before his death, he was telling his wife not to worry.

[@chasehedges6775]

Honsenfeld seems like a nice dude put in a horrible situation. RIP to him.

[@Kez_DXX]

It was probably easier to stomach the movie as a teen because of how much regarding the war I had studied on my own and likely desensitized to it. It's still hard to forget such a movie even though I only watched it once.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

It's the sort of film that more than once is tough to stomach - Connor

[@sparxstreak02]

5:08 My mum had to walk out of the theatre during the wheelchair balcony scene, she couldn’t stand seeing such atrocity even when simply acted out in a movie 😞

[@nerdtime7657]

Was she disabled?

[@sparxstreak02]

@@nerdtime7657 no, like I said, she just couldn’t stand watching cruelty like that acted out - especially since it really happened.

[@regiskalemix6925]

@@nerdtime7657you were heavy leaning on her being disabled for a joke lol ya nonce

[@mary1raymond]

Watched this a couple of nights ago for the second time. I am still awed by the superb production of this movie along with Brody's performance. I didn't know that he prepared himself so harshly for the role. He deserved his Oscar.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

What makes it even more sad is that this movie is based on a true story

[@TrueNativeScot]

None of these WW2 films that wank over the "poor jews" are based on true events I hope you realise that

[@mrorange6660]

@@TrueNativeScot Nice propaganda you have there.

[@TrueNativeScot]

@@mrorange6660 comments flat out saying what you think aren’t propaganda you dolt

[@mrorange6660]

@@TrueNativeScot WW2 is a true event, so is the Holocaust, and the cruelty of the bastard Nazi party. Jewish people are allowed to thrive and you’re mad about it.

[@thedoggowisdom]

@@TrueNativeScot but inspired..

[@0_dearghealach_083]

I remember in History class, we saw this movie, but it was only up until the point where Szpilman is pulled out of the train and rescued by the guard, and he's just walking around the ghetto, sobbing. It was sad enough to watch, but the rest of the film is just gut-wrenching. All these war movies are. Because the true nightmare fuel, it's not ghosts and boogeymen, the nightmare fuel is the human condition. The wars, the massacres, genocides, it's all a nightmare. We can't wake up from it. We can only remember it. And never let it happen again. Have you ever seen the 1997 Life Is Beautiful? I hear that one gets rather nightmarish.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

That's certainly a point to stop viewing. That must have really stuck with you! Nightmare Fuel comes in many forms, though it's that which is extracted from our very existence which is more potent than the rest. Sadly I've yet to see Life is Beautiful, though I look forward to eventually seeing it - Connor

[@Martini2540]

@@UnleashTheGhouls Life Is Beautiful is a must see! Would be great to see you do an analysis of it when you get the chance.

[@calciumcammando5717]

more like reality fuel, and people don't even know it.

[@xess4168]

I don't remember who said it, nor do I remember the quote fully, but it went something like this, "The First World War was a War without purpose, soldiers dying for nothing, a bad war, but the Second World War was a good war, we know what would have happened to the many occupied peoples of Europe and Asia if we did nothing. Soldiers died for a purpose, and that purpose was just and good. For the soldiers died, fought, and were wounded for the singular goal of liberation. The Second World War was a war, where the dehumanization of the enemy can be accepted, as the Nazi's and Imperial Japanese were genuinely Evil and immoral."

[@buttamob]

Great movie! What they went through is pure Nightmare Fuel! This is the movie that really made me a fan of Adrien Brody.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

This film cemented Brody, and I think that the grief in his performance is unforgettable - Connor

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Wes anderson films made me look up more Brody.

[@TICSTUDIOSLLC]

This is probably the best WW2 film ever made as it captures the horrors of the holocaust.

[@chasehedges6775]

A masterpiece.

[@chasehedges6775]

Come and See is even better tho.

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

​@@chasehedges6775well they said best ww2 movie that shows the horrors of the holocaust come and see does not show that

[@philip.morris]

It brought me to tears when the Jewish people were put in the train carriages, I had to pause the film. The scene with the family at dinner and the guy in the wheelchair. This movie was heartbreaking.

[@pointfull]

the pianist feels very raw maybe because its based on a true story but the majority of the movie had no convenience everything that happened to him is either really bad or really good i shat my pants when hosenfeld randomly appeared out of nowhere the movie imo is like a dark tunnel and a faint bright light representing the humanity of the people who helped him

[@lordmclovin3694]

Truly horrifying. An unspeakable thing that humanity will never forget nor understand. It makes me sick to my stomach. But enough of the director and his crimes….

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

This comment was only a matter of time! And, of course, warranted - Connor

[@Goddessvenom]

The wheelchair balcony scene has haunted me for years. I honestly couldn't remember if it was in this movie or Schindler's List as those aren't movies I rewatch. I actually yelped when I saw the clip in your video. I'll never understand such monstrosity.

[@Talleyhoooo]

Yet Naz*’s are becoming back in style, and no one gives it a second thought

[@e_e_eli]

The wheelchair scene was absolutely the one that haunts me the most from The Pianist. Horrific.

[@TrueNativeScot]

It was so comically over the top lol

[@mrorange6660]

@@TrueNativeScot Well it’s a movie, but the SS did do experiments on people, so not really over the top

[@TrueNativeScot]

@@mrorange6660 Nothing like the stereotypically evil goons that jewish films make them out to be. What a joke

[@Eyes-Scream0213]

I'm one of those people who watched this movie way back on 2003. I was a kid back then but dark themes of the film really hits me hard. So when I was on College I always talked about how The Pianist is one of the greatest movie I have ever watched and I actually made a movie review on it as my final thesis on college. Sadly this kind of movies are not anymore present. I missed the times when movies are all about epic movies, history and documentary which makes sense.

[@MOR7295]

I’m watching this in 2024 and it feels alarming how the world seems to repeat the same mistakes, as antisemitism is rising globally. Breaks my heart. I really wish history won’t repeat itself 💔

[@SuperDuckyWho]

It already is... and it's not just antisemitism. It's too late and we'll repeat this over and over and over again, treating each other as inhuman blinking numbly as we flip to the next video.

[@yonanian3252]

It is heartbreaking to see the massacres and genocide happening again in Gaza. It's almost identical to what happened to the jews during WWII. The palestinians are forced into an open air prison, a wall built around them, and they are bombed every hour of the day, starved, shot... It is heartbreaking to see the world repeating the same mistakes.

[@bUh9]

Do you know, *exactly* what youre talking about?

[@jungkook5231]

Although this movie saddens me deeply, this is undoubtedly my favorite movie. No other film has touched my heart like this one.

[@alekc3035]

I wonder why Roman wasnt at the oscars that year

[@tinman3586]

This was the best and most authentic Holocaust film I've seen.

[@doubleaaentertainment7462]

Thank you guys so much for covering this! You are the absolute best! Keep up the amazing work!

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

You're welcome! Thank you for your kind support! If there's anything else you'd like us to cover please recommend! - Connor

[@tomshaw4186]

The scene that always gets me is the one where he plays the piano for the Nazi. It’s like he is getting out his rage at the situation through his playing. It’s heartbreaking

[@chantellepride6368]

The Pianist is one of my favourite war films, because it shows the horrors of war! I watched this film on TV and was shocked too!

[@me12155]

My polish parents made me watch this when I was around 10. I've had nightmares about the wheelchair scene for years....

[@dawnadriana1764]

This is the greatest film ever made IMHO. It rips away the distance of time and place, and you are there, experiencing the horror on a level of intensity that invades your being and will not leave. Every scene brings you closer, with unrelenting detail, to the magnitude of human suffering and the sadism of the perpetrators. It is not possible to turn away from this truth, which is that we humans have a capacity for evil that no other being has on this earth.

[@williamgordon5708]

I read from "The Fall of Berlin" that the advancing Russians forced a captured German officer to either play the piano or be shot if he dares to stop, the german played by the roadside for like 16 hours, nonstop, before collapsing, and subsequently he was shot as promised......what goes around comes around I guess, especially in a hellish war like this.

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

Two wrongs don’t make a right, I understand why the Soviets were brutal but it doesn’t make it right

[@unavoidablycanadian397]

I saw thing when it came out. It is such an important movie to see. It always meant a lot to me because my father was a pow of the serbian army in 93. He still has the serbian army jacket he wore as a pow for warmth. The end of movie with the coat reminds me of it.❤

[@Johannesburg777]

This was a good, yet brutal movie. Brings tears to my eyes. So devastating.

[@chasehedges6775]

One of the best films of 2002.

[@_gold_eye_2656]

“If you strip everything good from a person, you’re left with a human being.”

[@definitelynotme5733]

The movie is horrifying but you know what else is? When youre in Poland you can see ENTIRE districts or CITIES that were once Jewish and now theres is not a SINGLE Jewish person there. In my hometown almost every house built before the WW2 was Jewish (expect one) and now all the houses are Polish and there is a mass grave in the forest.

[@lars7747]

And Poland still hasn't paid back what they took

[@vibecheck2787]

​@@lars7747what?

[@definitelynotme5733]

@@lars7747 do you know how many poles died in the WW2 and how much of our cultural heritage remains lost to this day

[@definitelynotme5733]

@@lars7747 like my grand grand father was literally sent to Oświęcim and his brother was killed by nazis and they also killed my neighbours dad when she was like 5 💀💀

[@lars7747]

@@definitelynotme5733 yes, I also know that you still need to pay

[@Doewiebele]

Thank you for making and sharing this.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

And thank you for watching and taking the time to comment! - Connor

[@JAProductions494]

I was actually thinking about this film the other day when going through the list of war films I probably won’t watch anytime soon but plan to watch at some point in the future. Stuff like Schindler’s List, Come and See, Grave of the Fireflies etc These video are always really well done and very respectful at the same time. I can’t imagine they are easy videos to make though

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

They're certainly not easy videos to make. I have to get myself in the right frame of mind to create them. I just hope that my interpretations of these films can be helpful in any way - Connor

[@breakinggood3601]

Watched it yesterday and now it popped up in my recommended

[@MultiDani2020]

Sadly lots of children died during the holocaust bc they weren’t fit for work 😢 so the directors choice to use lots of children was very accurate for what happened.

[@lolomoreno6645]

The thing that did for me was when he went back to the village and there was no one there just a bunch of abandoned belongings it was chilling, and the silence was something that made it even more scary, crazy to think that whole cities ended dead or in absolutely awful conditions in the camps.

[@duglife2230]

Speaking of the depiction of children being harmed in war movies, there is a scene from the 2016 movie, 'Anthropoid' (starring Cillian Murphy) that has been scarred into my brain forever. After Reinhard Heydrich is killed by the assassins, the SS and Gestapo go about trying to find out where them and the Czech partisans are hiding which culminates in a final shootout inside a church which is honestly one of my favorite firefight scenes from any war movie. Unfortunately to get that information the Nazis intimidate a young boy (probably 11-12) by torturing him with his mother's decapitated head inside a bucket. That is easily one of the most messed up things I have ever seen in any movie ever and just another example of how beyond horrible the people who made up the ranks of the SS and Gestapo were. That film belongs in the Nightmare Fuel series just for that scene alone.

[@mindfulmindie]

It may sounds weird but my boyfriend (whom also is pianist player) and I love this movie. We've seen it about ten times and through all the horror shown in the movie the part what hits us most is the relationship between Wladek and Dorota. At the beginning of the movie they adored each other and might have had a happy life together. But that all was denied through Wladek's arrest in the ghetto - only because he was jewish. The scene where he meets her again (married and pregnant) one or two years after is heartbreaking.

[@chasehedges6775]

Just goes to show the sad but bitter and unfortunate/unfair circumstances of life, which is a prominent theme in the film

[@kennyzraht5804]

I watched it once, and couldn’t watch it again. The scene where the child is killed while trying to sneak through the wall, broke me.

[@Unpluggedcables]

Incredible video for an incredible movie. You summarized the emotions and messages conveyed very well and I will definitely be watching more. Well done sir.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

Thank you for your kind comments! Great to have you onboard 😀

[@Patriotic_Eagle1995]

Would you put it in your "top ten movies made by diddlers" list?

[@mrorange6660]

@@Patriotic_Eagle1995 Still a good movie regardless. If you judge art by the sins of the artists, you wouldn’t enjoy anything.

[@idiot_city5444]

I actually find this movie to be way better than Shindlers List. Very underrated these days

[@Patriotic_Eagle1995]

Always a shame when a movie falls by the wayside just because it's made by and profits a diddler.

[@fortis3686]

I would also recommend A Woman in Berlin, to show what the Germans got when the Soviets arrived in Berlin, and enacted their revenge on the German people for years of death and destruction

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

Thank you for the recommendation Fortis! - Connor

[@SurnaturalM]

My own grandmother was one of these women.

[@nightfire734]

Do NOT ask Roman Polanski why he did no come to America to pick up his Oscar.

[@mariec3527]

Lmao 😂 because we all know why

[@MrJamaigar]

If Polanski's criminal record isn't public knowledge at this point, it damn should be, ffs...😠 Or at least, ban him from attending the Oscars. That's the bare minimum.

[@lemondrop8203]

This video is severely underrated, i'm so glad i came across this gem while scrolling.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

Thanks for your kind comment! We try our best

[@iwazhere21]

This is a movie I watched at 18 and haven’t watched again but remember vividly. Oh god how it burned into my brain, I knew the history it’s based off was well aware, but this movie captures a horrifying part of history very very well. The wheelchair scene lives rent free in my head.

[@oleksandrnyzhnyk1444]

What is not really fully showed in the movie, is the longevity of being alone, sitting in silence with your own thoughts, after the main character was separated from his family. Getting crazy, slowly, day by day, in a deep depression. Imaging days alone, he had to stay months alone, not making any noises in order to survive. Horrible horrible experience. It is well described in the Szpilman memoirs, worth reading to anyone.

[@wolfgangkirby6820]

Just the words baby and death rattle also broke my heart 😢

[@alinebereniceherrerarangel2489]

I agree with your analysis of the "talent privilege" of Szpillman, I thought about that the third or fourth time I watched the film...yes, my favorite movie ever 😢😊

[@chrisdiokno5600]

Ah the Pianist, I saw it much later in life as part of a Holocaust and Genocide Studies Class in High School. Amazing film

[@dathorndike4908]

One of the most disturbing scenes fior me was not the wheelchair over the balcony but what happened right after that. When the Nazis got into their vehicles to drive away they ran over the still alive Jews that had been shot in the street. They could have easily driven around them but instead drove right over them

[@chasehedges6775]

Sooooo true. That was brutal

[@SupernovaX72]

Yes I absolutely agree.

[@jamesowo5720]

I was born and rised up in Poland in 00s Almost every family in Poland lost someone during the German and Soviet occupation my family hid their Jewish neighbors in the basement during the war in Poland, the only country in Europe occupied by the Nazis, the death penalty was imposed on the entire family that hid Jews In 1938, 32 million people lived in Poland in 1946 only 23 milion. So manny good and talented pepole's was kill by russians and germans only because they was Polish or Jewish and millions of those who fled from communists and Nazis to America. Next time someone who is a Pole born outside of Poland, in many cases it is those who did not return to Poland Except that unlike the Jews, after the war we did not have our own country and this pain grew with each generation until the fall of the Berlin Wall and then it turned into the question of my peers Why do Germans have more money and are wealthier than us? the answer is that they could live in peace and we under another occupation.

[@kasiajarzebska3739]

This subject reminds me about a book by Hanna Krall „Shielding the flame”. It's a interview with one of the members of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The story is really chaotic and mixes in his post war expiriences, but I think it is worth a read, especially if you are interested in the subject and want to see something more about it.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

Thank you for putting us in the direction of the book, Kasia!

[@kasiajarzebska3739]

@@UnleashTheGhouls You're welcome

[@jonathanramos8414]

This and Schindler's list are easily some of the best Holocaust movies out there. Polanski almost did Schindler's list but he turned it down because he wasn't allowed to write the script. So instead Polanski went with the spillman story instead of the oskar Schindler story. I guess he related to the spillman story more because he was never saved by oskar Schindler. But i always liked how these movies show what civilians go through in warzones not just soldiers or the generals. Or the leaders that start the wars in the first place

[@shezmeister2771]

My teacher showed us this movie when i was 12 and i never finished it until I was about 14-15.

[@blondie944]

I had to watch this movie in breaks, my heart was pumping , almost cried, palms were sweating , it was a beautiful and tough movie to watch

[@piotrproszewski3977]

You should watch Polish movie" Wołyń" or russian "Come and see" both about ww2...pianist is a walk in The park compare to those two. They both also a very good movies

[@richytmr]

he did a come and see video

[@Courierman6]

I've been around since you reviewed the og all queit movie good to see how far you've come

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

Thank you Paul! There's plenty more content surrounding the topic of war to come, I hope you can stick around until then! - Connor

[@t0mcat683]

i think every « edgy » kid who likes to make jokes about the holocaust should watch this movie

[@thomasseery7570]

My 13 year old son watched it many times when I bought the dvd and it’s an excellent portrayal of the treatment of the Polish Jews. Excellent video btw

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

Thank you for your kind comment Thomas, and I hope that you son took something from his viewings of the film - Connor

[@TrueNativeScot]

Funny that you mention a 13 year old, the director would have loved that

[@agniteyt]

I remember watching this movie as a kid and being genuinely traumatized, it was worse than a horror movie for me. Since then I eat what I get and I'm glad for whatever I have, never complaining about anything I have less of.

[@yatogami9082]

I remember watching this during history class in my 7th or 8 grade and it became one of my favorite movies of all time

[@dlr_rosa254]

I remember when my mom learned able WWII. She's from Mexico but moved to Texas years ago and I remember how schocked I was when I found out she knew absolutely nothing about the world wars. She tried to innocently explain it away saying that Mexico wasn't apart of it so there was really no use to teach it to kids. I remember trying to explain the horrors of WWII but she was pretty aloof about it like how most people are when you try to explain them history. It wasn't until she watched The Zoo Keeper's Wife that she fully understood the impact of the war and she was absolutely disgusted. She couldn't believed these were real events...

[@resilientgal872]

My in law was he same he didn’t know also from México.

[@jonathanramos8414]

Most Mexicans have heard of the Spanish civil war because Mexico was a supporter of the republican side . And allowed lots of Spanish exiles in Mexico.

[@jonathanramos8414]

@dodgsonwevegotdodgsonhere9970 Mexico didn't do anything other then send 4 fighter squadrons in the pacific

[@Nockturnmortem]

I wish there was a movie that would show the holocaust MY ANCESTORS suffered, painted with the same vivid colors, and commented with the same pious words. But alas, we native americans don't have that luxury. Our sorrows and those of my ancestors are remembered only by the earth, water, and nature. The same land and animals we loved and nurtured by thousands of years. Solitude and bare rock, lost legends of bygone happy days. We remember.

[@gamerhalim4717]

We can see the horror of war. Let’s hope humanity learns the mistake of the past.

[@castleofaargh2093]

Great analysis and review of an incredible movie. For me it’s one movie I’ll never watch again but I’m glad that I did. It’s certainly not for entertainment! The messages, themes and portrayal of all the elements are important enough to look past the sins of Polanski just long enough to experience the messages this movie delivers. My favourite part was being able to see a glimpse of the Warsaw uprising through the window. Those brave men and women stood up for what is right and resisted pure evil against insurmountable odds! I’d like to see more stories told about the brave Polish resistance.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

Thank you for your kind words on the video! The observations were a vital element to the film, it's one thing to be a part of the conflict and perishing, but the witnesses were scarred themselves from those sights - Connor

[@terraseamapping823]

i would wish they showed a few more scenes with him and a piano. But besides that, the film is absolutely perfect.

[@Palmieres]

This comment section varies from people who understand the themes of the movie, and painful immature cringe. I hate the world...

[@t.r.s.5129]

My dad watched this movie once. Then he said never again. I haven't watched it; I don't think I can handle it.

[@FushiguroTojl]

Yeah, It's really hard to watch even for me. I normally dont really mind gore and stuff but carelessly picking up and throwing an old disabled man out of a balcony is awful

[@Radonatorr]

Correction thought, Szpilman was not hiding in Warsaw's outskirts. Szpilman was hiding in the very center of the city. It is mentioned in the movie that it was right next to the "German District". When Germans conquered Warsaw in 1939 they took over previous Government District, located in the center of Warsaw, and gave it the "Nur für Deutsche" (Only for Germans) status, thus making it the German District. In 1944, when the Poles rose up against the Germans in the Warsaw Uprising, Hitler personally gave the order to raze Warsaw to the ground and erradicate its population as an example to anyone alse considering ressistance. Around 90% of the entire city of Warsaw was systematically demolished. What you see in the movie is not the fate of Warsaw's outskirts but of the city in its entirety

[@maruszka8252]

I watched it when I was 9 in my school on history lesson I couldn’t Cooperate for the rest of the day and smile for the rest of the week

[@zuur303]

I saw The Pianist in the theater when it came out. One person let out loud cry at the wheelchair scene in the silent cinema.

[@Subject82]

A cautionary tale for the direction our current society is taking.

[@TrueNativeScot]

⁠@@ASTRA1564 8 million German titles and works of art were destroyed or stolen by allies once Germany fell, including medieval documents and other titles that had nothing to do with the war. Most of what was stolen still has not been returned. The only books that the nazis burned, were those of pedophilic jewish sexologists who ran gender clinics

[@xanatanuwu]

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[@BlueStar_Studio]

Seen this one for Class essay. It was because the movie we were going to watch was unavailable to me. It was a fascinating film.

[@mariebcfhs9491]

Hosenfeld died because he was on the wrong side.

[@NewEnglandOtaku]

This one was great, I remember watching it and enjoying it

[@sharonmelter7232]

Such horrifying events, such astonishing art

[@venus1494]

You should do The Kid in Striped Pajamas next, definetly a nightmare fuel.

[@anthonyjames4247]

It's all happening today.

[@8698gil]

I was raised christian, but I left religion behind me a long time ago. I've never understood why christians hate jewish people so much. It always seemed to me that they should be grateful to the jews for being saved.. wasn't it supposed to be god's plan that christ would be crucified by the jewish people in order to pay for their sins? Weren't the jews doing exactly what god wanted them to do, in order to save humanity? So why do all christians hate them?

[@yourefaceneedscharmin762]

We don't , you shouldn't lump all Christians together . I'm sorry for your experiences 🙏 But Christians don't hate Jews ! Christians support Israel and all Jewish people . God bless you 🙏❤️

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

The nazis were not Christians they hated them

[@Outback69]

This movie is like barney and friends compares to Threads and The Day After...

[@atiaguy]

Hey there! First off, I just want to say how much I absolutely love your KZbin channel. Your essays on movies and the clips you use are just fantastic. I was wondering if you could share where you source your clips for the essays you create. It would be really interesting to know

[@brianrunyon266]

Say what you will about the director's personal life, but, he felt this story had to be told, and, I'm sure him drawing on his own experiences during the war must've been difficult. Bit of a history buff when it comes to films about World War II.

[@Nico75710]

Incredible S tier film

[@DoloresCapalbi]

It was the most beautiful and heartbreaking film I ever saw, second tp the the Passion of Christ . We need to pray that history will not be reapeted, Or will certainly be the end of humanity.

[@ryanbale2416]

Scary how history seems to repeat itself. There was a story a few days ago of a Jew in London who wasn’t allowed to cross the street. Their houses are also getting vandalised too. Worrying times

[@other7128]

There was also a video of a Jew trying to cross the street which turned out to be a set up. I wonder if we're talking about the same one - Gideon, his name is. He's part of a propaganda group and deliberately went out to cause trouble by walking into a crowd of protestors (many of whom were Jews themselves), despite being asked not to by police. He was saying "but I just want to cross the road" to make himself seem innocent. There is often more to a situation than what is immediately seen. I myself must be critical of what I see. Though I agree with you, history repeats itself. One must truly understand history in order to learn, and I think we definitely have not.

[@fredlandry6170]

Great film.

[@UnleashTheGhouls]

That it is Fred! - Connor

[@josuealbertoayala4472]

For me the most unbelievable thing was when like people where forced to rob for food. Like being stripped of food makes you do things. Plus being forced to dance for the entertainment of people. Yeah I am glad to be in a better like generation.

[@ckotcher1]

Roman Polanski. What a man of contrasts. We all know what he’s been through (Mom killed by Nazi’s wife and unborn son killed by Manson’s followers) and yet he constantly cheated on his wife and went on to r a p _ a 13 year old girl. So he is both a victim and perpetrator. A protagonist and an antagonist in his own life. I think all these experiences good or bad is what makes him a phenomenal genius director. This film was so brilliant and so horrifying it will never leave me. And Adrian Brody absolutely killed it. One of the best performances of all time.

[@anja6983]

Welcome to my countries history. Learn as much as you can about it and use it. That’s my responsibility

[@MikeHawk8008]

Spoiler alert, Germany gets fuckin wrecked

[@lordjakob7052]

No way ww2 Spolier