The Pianist Analysis

The film I have chosen to use is the Pianist; The Pianist was made in 2002 it was directed by Roman Polonski who lived in Poland during WW2, scripted by Ronald Harwood and stars Adrien Brody. During the 75th Academy award ceremony it was nominated for many awards but won Oscars for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The film is based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, this is a true story of what this man went through during Hitler’s reign. I feel like the plot of this film immediately sets it up to convey the information in a factual but emotive way, although because it is a memoir it also leaves it open to withhold a lot of information that might not be know and because they didn’t want to make parts of the story up they left the audience with quite a few unanswered questions.
The film is set during WW2 as we see one man’s journey through the horrific conditions in Warsaw during WW2. Wladyslaw Szpilman played by Adrien Brody is a famous pianist on polish radio. When the film first begins we see Wladyslaw playing Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp Minor in the background we hear bombs going off and people rushing around the office trying to gather as much as possible before evacuating. This music completely contrasts with the chaos that’s in the background little did he know this would be the last live
A few times through the film we see the dates appear on screen as it has skipped a few months or days and where in Krakow they are. Another way we know that days and weeks are going past is the same image in show two or three times in the film a statue of a man first we see it with people walking past it when we see it again there is building in smoke behind it when we see it again the street behind it is all rubble. This happens a few times throughout the movie only with different