重庆立交桥有多复杂:急求《钢琴师》的英语影评

I can remember when this film came out I was adamantly against seeing it. I had my preconceived notions that it would be some other heroic Jewish Holocaust film where good triumphs over evil and in between we would see some brutal atrocities committed by the Germans to add some flavour.

How wrong I was.

This is one of the best films I have ever seen and what it did to me I cannot describe in words. But in a nutshell, it moved me, made me cry, made me feel like I was in the Polish ghetto in 1940, and ultimately made me kiss the sidewalks as I walked out of the theater and thanked God that I live in the free society that I do.

Roman Polanski has proven that he is a great director with films like Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby but this is his crowning achievement. I think the fact that this won the awards that it did at this years Oscars goes a long way to validate the brilliance of this film. I believe that the Oscar's are rigged for the most part and films and actresses and such win based more on their pedigree or business associations than anything else, so when it won best actor and director and adapted screenplay this year, it tells you that it should have won best picture but the Weinsteins seem to have a spell over everyone, hence a charlatan like Chicago takes top prize. Sorry for the digression here but when you compare a "film" like Chicago to a masterpiece like The Pianist, there really is one clear cut winner. They handed out the statue to the wrong movie.

The Pianist follows up and coming piano player Wlad Spielzman from his days as a local hero to a prisoner of war to his time in the ghettos, surviving only by the kindness of strangers. I think many people have touched on this before but what makes this film so amazing and well crafted is because Spielzman is a man that we can all relate to. He is not a hero, he is not a rebel and he is not a kamikazee type that wants and lusts after revenge. He is a simple man that is doing everything in his power to stay alive. He is a desperate man and fears for his life and wants to stay as low as he can. Only from the succor he receives from others does he manage to live and breathe and eat and hide. And this is how I related to him. If put in his position, how would I react? Exactly the way he did. This is a man that had everything taken from him. His livelihood, his family, his freedom and almost his life. There is no time for heroics here. Adrien Brody embodies the spirit of Spielzman and his win at this years Oscars was one of the happiest moments I have had watching the festivities. His speech was even better but that is a topic for another time.

Ultimately it is his gift of music that perhaps saves his life and the final scene that he has with the German soldier is one of the best scenes I have ever seen in my entire life. There is so much emotion in his face, his hands, his music, his eyes that one can't help but realize that what Brody did in this film is give a performance of a lifetime and one for the ages.

I think Polanski spoke from the heart here. He has taken a palette of memories and amalgamated them with what he has read and given us one of the best films of our generation and any other. I think The Pianist will go down as one of the best films of this century and when all is said and done, Chicago will be forgotten the way Ordinary People was forgotten and when people talk about the film The Pianist, they will do so with reverence and respect. This is a cinematic masterpiece.

The Szpilman family rejoices to hear that Great Britain and France have joined the war and Poland is no longer alone, but soon thereafter they've been moved to a 'new' apartment and watch in horror as the wall which will define the Warsaw Ghetto is erected outside their window. Only one of them, Wladyslaw (Adrien Brody, "Summer of Sam"), will survive in Roman Polanski's 2002 Palme d'Or winner, "The Pianist."

Polanski is quick to establish Wladyslaw's determination not to be silenced by his continuing to play Chopin as the recording studio he inhabits is destroyed by German bombs. Brody quietly and confidently inhabits Szpilman in one of the best and most rigorously sacrificial (Brody both learned to play the piano and lost 30 pounds for the role) performances of the year. Polanski, bringing his own Holocaust survival memories to the table, has made his best film since 1974's "Chinatown."

As adapted from Szpilman's book by Ronald Harwood ("Cry the Beloved Country"), "The Pianist" is divided into three sections. In the first the Szpilman family is established - loving, genteel parents (Frank Finlay, "Dreaming of Joseph Lees" and Maureen Lipman, "Solomon and Gaenor"), rash older brother Henryk (Ed Stoppard, "The Little Vampire"), sensible sister Regina (Julia Raynor, "Topsy-Turvy") and charming younger sister Halina (Jessica Kate Meyer). The closeness of the family is underlined when Henryk and Halina, who had been weeded out of the passengers being sent to Treblinka, choose to rejoin the family instead. The film's understated ability to wrench the heart is effected when Wladyslaw simply tells Halina that he wished he knew her better. The horrors, like a woman wailing on the platform because she suffocated her baby attempting to keep it quiet in their hiding place, are more effective for Polanski's shooting them on a fabulously bright, sunny day.

This act is closed when Wladyslaw is saved by former friend Itzak Heller (Roy Smiles), now a Nazi collaborator working as an auxiliary policeman. Polanski just moves on - the other members of the Szpilman family are never referred to again and their erasure is all the more poignant for it. Szpilman's luck works again when an old colleague and her husband hide him in an apartment from which he can view the Ghetto uprising, but a profiteering pal leaves him for weeks at a time with no food. A noisy accident uncovers his presence to nosy neighbors and Szpilman is forced to evacuate. He's hidden again, but eventually the starving man joins the living dead who wander the shell of a bombed out city in a bleak winter landscape. Nested in the attic of an abandoned manse, Szpilman is discovered by a German officer (Thomas Kretschmann, "U-751," providing able support), who feeds and clothes him in appreciation of his musical talent.
"The Pianist" will constantly be compared to "Schindler's List," but where that film accentuated its horrors, this one instills them more deeply by presenting their everydayness. A family of six share one caramel before being scattered to the winds. A woman crumples in the street, shot. An old man curries favor by playing the fool and the Germans so enjoy his mugging and scraping they force an entire group of Jews to dance in the street.

Technically, the film has a bright crystalline quality beginning with Pawel Edelman's stunning deep focus photography. His work is so crisply detailed that during Szpilman's impromptu concert for Captain Hosenfeld he captures light shining through the cartilage of Brody's nose, emphasizing the man's etherealness. Sound (Jean-Marie Blondel) is also notable as Szpilman catches conversations next door, or walks through a hole in a wall, his ears muffled and ringing from the blast. Visual effects include terrific matte work to convey Warsaw's devastation.

"The Pianist" is a powerful achievement, an epic tale of a musical survivor that's strength lies in its hushed tone.

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·Based on the true story of one extraordinary man's life in occupied Warsaw during World War II, The Pianist marks the first time Roman Polanski has tackled the subject of The Holocaust, a historical event which directly affected his own life. This captivating, harrowing yet unsentimental account has plenty for movie fans, music lovers and the historically involved.

While giving a recital of Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor for Polish radio in Warsaw, Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is interrupted by Hitler's advancing military machine. As the civilised society inhabited by Szpilman and his Jewish family graphically begins to fall apart, Szpilman relies ever more on luck to see his way through the ghettoisation of the Jews, and the subsequent liquidation of the ghetto. Along the way, exactly who is good and who is evil is questioned as we see, in Polanski's words, "decent Poles and evil Poles, decent and evil Jews, decent and evil Germans".

From the early indignity of having to wear identification armbands and being barred from bus seats and restaurants, through the confiscation of homes and property to the indiscriminate killing practiced by Nazi officers, The Pianist feels like a personal experience rather than a director's attempt to summarise every fact of the period. It benefits from the approach.

And as the subject matter would suggest, this film not for the faint-hearted. Scenes of persecution and murder are depicted in chilling detail, while the supporting cast - including Maureen Lipman as Szpilman's mother - are faultless at portraying compelling characters. Brody, however, is the revelation. His cultivated good looks and engaging delivery are more than a little suggestive of Nigel Havers at his best. But after the liquidation of the ghetto, his family's forced departure and Szpilman's escape into the ruined cityscape around him, Brody turns his hand to playing a desperate man with disease-induced injuries and epic quantities of hair. And he's just as convincing - for he never once makes him a heroic figure.

The role of Chopin's exquisite music is of course paramount in the story. Through the central section of the film, which features little dialogue, Szpilman's long battle simply to stay alive is borne out by the lack of music. In one heartbreaking scene, he is put up in a safe house and finds that a piano has been left in it. Yearning to play it but fearful of discovery, he resorts to "air piano" - his fingers playing the piece an inch above the keyboard. And when, later, he is discovered by a benevolent Nazi commander (Thomas Kretschmann), the reintroduction of music into the film as Szpilman plays literally for his life is as compelling a cinematic event as you'll see all year, and one of the film's most astounding.

Brody is magnificent throughout in a performance worthy of a slew of awards, and Polanski's direction is at once restrained and personal, making for a film that sits alongside the best accounts of the Holocaust, including Schindler's List. The accurately rendered sets, based around a recreated complex of Warsaw's streets in the Babelsberg Studio, an old Soviet army barracks, a small town in the former East Germany and the rundown Warsaw district of Praga, convey an incredible authenticity. And Anna Sheppard's costumes for the cast of - literally - thousands display a remarkable attention to detail.

And yet the most astonishing aspect of The Pianist is the story on which it is based, penned by Wladyslaw Szpilman himself. The composer died in 2000, at the age of 88, a few months before production of this film began. Intense, epic and moving, his account of World War II is ultimately one of an ordinary man forced by circumstance to be extraordinary - and helped not a little by Lady Luck. The Pianist is a fitting memorial for the man, his people and the suffering they endured.

·The true story of Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman battling to survive the Nazi menace in the Warsaw ghetto of World War II, Polanski here draws on his own experience as a Holocaust survivor; one who witnessed his parents being dragged off to concentration camps and one who himself made a narrow escape.

The director turned down Steven Spielberg's offer to direct Schindler's List (1993) because, he insists, the material was too personal and too disturbing. The true horror was just more truthful than Roman felt comfortable with.
Strange, coming from the man who gave the world Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Repulsion (1965).

Still, his patience paid off: Not counting the fevered Oscar buzz around the picture, the diminutive Hollywood exile picked up the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes and pretty much swept the board at most other critics' awards. (Famous English playwright and screenwriter Ronald Harwood and lead player Adrien Brody have also been lavished with praise across the global circuit.)

Although in the main this movie is cool and detached (much as Schindler's most definitely wasn't), Polanski is mindful to show as much compassion as he is the cruelty. There's no clear cut good and evil here: Good Jews mingle and come to blows with bad Jews, just as good and bad Poles are shown suffering the same predicament.

Care is also taken to show that, maybe, not all the German soldiers were raging psychopaths after all.

Everything is seen through the eyes of our central character, from the beginnings of his lone struggle to the dramatically intensified latter stages of hunger and total destitution.

Brody retains balance from start to finish and underplays the role to perfection, at the same time having us fear for his health.

Great support from, among others, British stalwarts Frank Finlay and Maureen Lipman as his parents add to the overall air of passivity and vulnerability that is finally smashed to smithereens.

Well worth the hype for once.

·THE PIANIST
**** New Roman by Polañski
Reviewer: Artur Kalicki from Warsaw, Poland
I put my signature under the words of Mr. Keizer. However, I do not share the opinion that "The Pianist" is not at the level of "Schindler's List". Though it is rather sure it will not be nominated for Oscar next year.

*****
Reviewer: Jazzo from Canada
I suppose that "happy ending", “melodramatic knockout “ or “Nintendo Games” are recipes for Oscar . No wonder, 99% of Hollywood productions just do that. “Though certainly not at the level of "Schindler's List," "The Pianist" is a worthy Holocaust drama and a welcome return to form for Roman Polanski.-Mark Keizer “ That the reason way, Mr. Reviewer. You should have more Kaiser’s buns before doing any movie’s reviews

***** The Most Important Movie To The Shoah History
Reviewer: Hans Werner from Berlin-Germany
Schindlers List was a story of one German. The Pianist is a story of one Jewish pianist and is a kind of resume of the most important events in the modern history of the world. It is a mistake to put this two movies into one review.

*****
Reviewer: Mack Sacco from California
At the end of the movie, not one person in the large audience stood up to leave...something I have never seen in a Polish audience. No one talked...we all just stayed till the last credits disappeared. This movie is honest without being depressing. If you force me to choose between "The Pianist" and "Schindler's List", I would chose the Polansk production, but perhaps we are talking about apples and oranges. I would agree with Hans Werner's statement that "it is a mistake to put this two movies into one review."

***** Hollywood Hallucination
Reviewer: Non-Hollywood Reviewer from Netherlands/South Africa
Apologies for my biased opinion, but Its really infuriariting to see comments saying that this film is not of the "Schindlers list" standard. Granted - Schindlers List was a skillful piece, fit for hollywood with big name actors and fast-food digestible script and feel. It doesnt come close to the emotive realism, intense artistic sublety and irony of the pianost - a true artwork. As sad a story it was, it was enriching in both a true display of history, art and the human psyche. Personally, the only other film I can think of in this leaugue in this genre is "Life is Beautiful" which although shockingly different in its approach - was layered in the tragedy of truth and the courage of character. Definitely recommend this one.

*** I Must Disagree
Reviewer: Anonymous from Anonymous
Beautifully acted and filmed, the movie provides an accurate chronicle of historical facts, but presents nothing new emotionally, intellectually or historically.

**** Sad But Real
Reviewer: Eitan from Israel
It is good that we have films to remind us of the Holocaust, because it seems that the world is forgetting. It is not Schindler's List, but performed beautifully and delivers the message.

(none) Oscar for Polanski?
Reviewer: Kevin from Anonymous
Maybe he'll come to pick it up in person. Then the cops can finally throw his butt in jail where it belongs. http://vachss.com/mission/roman_polanski.html -k-

***** Go See It
Reviewer: Conrad from San Francisco
If you like short, quick and shallow Hollywood stories, then this movie is defiantly not for you. Great movie. Nothing is sugar coated or dramatized.

***** 5 stars for The Pianist
Reviewer: Anonymous from Anonymous

***** A true shock to the system
Reviewer: Kathy from England
Schindlers List was number 1 on my list until I saw The Pianist. This one really does leave you with far more of a feeling of devastation. The tears of the German Officer summed up the utter futility of killing other human beings. The ending is just how it should be, not sugar-coated.

***** A Masterpiece ....
Reviewer: LR/P from Virginia
"The Pianist" is a hard movie to watch, which is as it should be. It is impossible for me to comprehend how anyone could treat other human beings the way the Jews were treated by the Nazis, which is also "as it should be". I don't want to be able to understand the horror. I want to believe that I am too "human" for that. "The Pianist" stars Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, and Ed Stoppard. It was directed by Roman Polanski. "The Pianist" is not "Schindler's List", although both movies deal with the horrors of the Holocaust. "The Pianist" takes place in Warsaw, Poland, and depicts what happened when the Nazis invaded Poland and walled off a portion of the city to keep all of the Jews in one place -- then systematically shipped them off to be killed. "The Pianist" tells the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a composer and pianist, as his family was stripped away while he managed to survive with the help of many people who were, themselves, killed for harboring him. Eventually he was alone and struggling to stay alive, only to be found by a German officer who spared his life and helped him stay hidden because of his music. "The Pianist" is cold, ugly, and full of despair and hopelessness. Yes, "The Pianist" survived -- how else could his story have been told? And at what cost, his survival? Lots and lots of people should not see "The Pianist". Perhaps I am one of them -- but I did see it. I sometimes awake at night, and cannot believe the absolute horror of it. Perhaps "The Pianist" is a masterpiece. Yeah, it probably is. No, it isn't "Schindler's List", but there is no reason why the two must be compared. They are different movies about the same atrocities. Beware -- be forewarned -- "The Pianist" is a very hard movie to watch.

*****
Reviewer: Anonymous from Anonymous
I think we shouldn't forget that this film is based on a real story. It has a happy end because it's just what happened. Somebody had to survive the War and surviving it was a miracle, so the film had to have a happy ending. The another important thing about this film is that it's a German who eventually saves Szpilman. It shows the history in another light.

**** Polanski's Matured
Reviewer: Linda from Memphis
This is the best Polanski film since Rosemary's Baby. He's always been arrested (no pun intended) by what's weird in the world, but this time when he openly shows human horror, it isn't concocted for shock, but delivered with sincerity and respect for the truth. In this way, Polanski is perhaps purified by getting off his chest what disturbed him so deeply when he was a child. It was a quiet film in many places, which allowed viewers to feel the solitude of the lone and lonely Jewish survivor, the pianist.

**** Must See
Reviewer: Danielle from Tennessee
Though not as stylized as Shindler's List, The pianist is just as beautiful in its treatment of painful history. Following the horrors and confusion of the holocost through the eyes of an intelligent and sensitive muscicion, this film touches viewers with its honesty the portrayal of beauty, art, love, family and the best elements of humanity stuggling to survive in the midst of the worst aspects of humanity.Watching these sorts of movies are not "enjoyable." They are necessary.

*****
Reviewer: Frank Hodges from Liverpool
I wanted to applaud at the end of the film

***** Well Done!
Reviewer: Texas Tea from Houston, TX
This movie deserves better than being compared to Schindler's List, or any other movie. It was compelling, without being depressing; it was entertaining without being obvious. It was a good movie, the kind that will stay with me for a few weeks. Thank God countries like England, Russia, and America allied together, and eventually liberated those poor souls (the Polish people as well as the Jews). Thank God England and America still have enough sense to know that allowing history to repeat itself is unacceptable. I think Russia will come around, but Germany and France continue to bury their heads in the sand. Perhaps due to financial ties to Iraq, and their oil. The people of Iraq are as suppressed and tormented as the Jews of 1939 - 1945 in Warsaw were. REMEMBER THAT the next time someone says that the true evil is England and USA. We know where EVIL resides, and it WILL BE DEALT WITH!

***** Excelent
Reviewer: Juan Gluecksmann from Vienna
Excelent!! I was confronted to a reality: in 1938, as a 2 month old child I was saved by my mother in Vienna, and taken to South America. Later, returning to Vienna I could inmagine the horror, which I totally confirmed watching this extraordinary movie. Black and white, adding a sour note, and real scenes, as real you can inmagine.

(none) Rapist
Reviewer: Kristina Peterson from California
I guess it doesn't seem to bother many people that this man raped a 13 year old child, flees the country 25 years ago to avoid punishment, and now is honored. What is our world coming to.

**** 1/2 The Value Of The Music
Reviewer: Judy from Milwaukee, WI
One of the other reviewers, from California, mentioned that the entire audience stayed for the credits at the end of the film; it happened in my theatre too. No one could leave while that magnificent music was playing over the list of credits -- its beauty was a necessary catharsis for the sorrow and anguish and violence and emotional intensity of the film. If I was ever in doubt about the power of music to heal and to inspire and to "make us human", this film validated everything for me. Stunning performances all around - incredibly true-to-life filming with sets and costumes; full of symbolism on every level. Knowing that this film was an adaptation of an autobiography didn't really help to make it easier to watch, though. You knew from the start that The Pianist would live - but look at what he lost, and how many good people died! Some movies are "see-again" films for me; I could never bear to sit through this one again.

**** You Must See...
Reviewer: TOM and friends from FROM POLAND
"Pianist" is one of the best film directed by Polanski. Spilmann's story is told without sugar coating .This film performed beatifully and delivers the message about drama of war. Scenes of film are make truthfully and sadly . We make other people to see the film and we think the actually war is going to end happilly . We agree with decision to get 3 Oscars prize to the film.

***** What is there to say? There are no words.
Reviewer: Anonymous from New Jersey
The Pianist is a moving, stunning, incredibly realistic depiction of the Holocaust. I watched this movie and I just sat there staring at the screen in total awe for ten minutes after the movie had ended. Amazing. Adrien Brody truly deserved that Best Actor Oscar. There are no words to describe the impact that this film has left on me.

*** Yes, but Sadly
Reviewer: S Williamson from CT
I hesitate to write this but it's what I feel. Having seen so many moviea which deal with the holocaust, this one felt a bit empty. Yes the story and directing were great, and Brody did a fine job, too. But I think we could have been shown more about him, than the horrific, yet well known brutality of the nazi regime. I was no longer shocked by the violence I saw, in fact could easily tell who would be murdered next as people were pulled from lines. Terrible to say, to write, but we have seen this all before. It almost seems cliche now. Terrilbe to have happen to viewers. We should never forget. We should know what war is about and be shown in all the goryness we can stomache, but not in this way, for these reasons. Better to have left all that on the cutting room floor, and let us realize where he was from, and what he had been through with a few scenes of flashback.Brody could well have handled haunting details of what had happend to his family, with his facial expressions alone. Other than this, I could have listened to the man who played for brody just play for the 2 + hours. Wise indeed to have let the music play to the end of the credits...Had it been an actual recording of the survivor, well, I'd still be there crying...

***** Proof that the power of music can help someone survive the roughest situations
Reviewer: Rachel from Indiana
"The Pianist" is a wonderful story about one man's struggle to live for his music. Adrien Brody is an extremely talented actor and he played the part of Wladyslaw Szpilman superbly. I am a musician as well (I play the violin and cello) and I am glad that Hollywood has finally made a movie that is true-to-life and gives the perfect perception of a real person in a movie.

·The Pianist
Rated: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Michael Zebrowski, Frank Finlay
Genre: Drama

by Ken Hanke

Probably no filmmaker working today is so uniquely qualified to make a film about the Holocaust as Roman Polanski. The director himself lived through those years as a young Jewish man in Poland, his own mother dying in the Nazi gas chambers. It's natural that he should turn his attention to the subject with this film version of the autobiography of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman.

The resulting film is one of the best – if not the best – on the subject. Though it inevitably invites comparisons with Spielberg's Schindler's List, Polanski's is a very different film, and a more deeply disturbing one that does not get the importance of its subject tangled up with the importance of the film itself. (This is perhaps why Polanski turned down Spielberg's original offer that he should direct Schindler's List.) However sincere and well-intentioned Spielberg's film may be, it's too clearly the work of a man deliberately making a movie in an effort to be taken more "seriously."

Polanski – regardless of how you feel about his work – has no need of proving himself a serious filmmaker. Moreover, Spielberg's film is essentially an outsider's view; Polanski's is an insider's take, and in more ways than one. It isn't just that Polanski was himse