The Pianist Analysis

Each year Hollywood makes over 100 movies. These movies have many different genres; horror, adventure, and even historical movies. Historical movies are about a historical that has happened in History over the years, one of these movies is the The Pianist. The movie The Pianist focuses on the life of Wladek Szpilman during World War II and is both accurate and inaccurate in detail. This film is about the life of Wladek Szpilman, during World War 2. In the film the viewer learns some true and false things about what happened to Szpilman while he was trying to survive. The movie takes place in Poland right after the Nazis started to take over Warsaw. The movie shows the life of Wladek Szpilman and what he and his family, as Jews, go through …show more content…
All Jews were forced to live in ghettos which many people were crammed into. People were always hungry. Some people had valuables that they could trade for food. Others had to beg or starve to death. People didn’t have the proper clothing for the harsh winter. Like in the movie, some children that were small enough would crawl through little openings in the wall that surrounded the ghetto and smuggle in food for their families and friends. If the children were caught, they would be severely punished. Maybe even beaten till death. Wladek Szpilman was indeed a very lucky person; his life was saved not once but twice. His life was first saved by a family friend who was a Jewish police officer in the ghetto the two were in 9 the Warsaw Ghetto). Another time he was saved by Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, a German officer, who gave him food and even the coat that went to his German uniform to help Szpilman stay warm in the harsh winter. By the end of the movie Warsaw was in ruins. Buildings were burned to ensure that there were no Jews or any other fugitives of Germany taking shelter in them. In fact Warsaw was the country that was the most destroyed in the war. It was basically in ruins by the end of the