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The Pianist

Just got back from seeing Roman Polanski's "The Pianist." It made me hungry because the guy was starving for like two hours straight. And it made me want to play piano. Aside from that, I couldn't really tell you what the message was. It was a Holocaust thing, based on the autobiography of the Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who lost his family and was forced to hide out in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. Maybe it did depict the Holocaust more realistically than any film to date, but the film really had very little to say beyond the facts; it was just Szpilman's character being passively thrown into situation after situation and never driving the action himself. I hope the Anti-Defamation League doesn't hunt me down for saying it, but just because a movie is about the Holocaust doesn't make it a good movie; it's got to say something as well. "The Pianist" didn't. I have a piano bias and that still doesn't make it good.