The Pianist (2002) is NIGHTMARE FUEL

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🍿 The Pianist is NIGHTMARE FUEL
🎬 Connor heads into the Warsaw Ghetto, as he analyses Roman Polanski's Best Picture Oscar nominee. In 2002's The Pianist, we follow the experience of Wladyslaw Szpilman and his survival throughout the Holocaust as a Polish Jew.

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Please excuse the cuts in the opening of the video. This was due to a glaring error in the scripting. Thank you for watching - Connor

[HJ-juui]

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.

[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

[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.

[thepaintingbanjo]

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.

[madrixx]

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.

[RafiOmar]

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.

[NormalChannel]

What really gets me really teary is the fact one moment he's with his family, getting ready to get in with his family in the train and in the next moment, without warning, his life is saved, but at what cost?

[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.

[ModernVintage]

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.

[nukacola]

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

[sparxstreak]

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 😞

[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.

[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.

[blackalien]

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.

[TheDankCat]

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.

[maryraymond]

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.

[_dearghealach_]

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.

[buttamob]

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

[TICSTUDIOSLLC]

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