Author: Yu Yiqi
The Pianist is a war film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrian Brody, Emilia Fox, Micho Zambrowski, and Ed Stoopard.
Music, elegance, cruelty, war, humanity, living...
The feelings that the film brings to us are undoubtedly these, after watching the movie, we should reflect on it, why is there war? Why is the cold barrel able to isolate two of the same kind with temperature?
Spielman
Spielmann was the pianist. The film begins with a black-and-white picture of Warsaw's busyness, where everyone is methodically busy with their own business, while Spielmann plays Chopin's Serenade in C minor on the Polish radio station.
The music sounds very quiet and gentle, as slow as flowing water, but the occasional repression seems to pave the way for the rest of the story. Indeed, the sound of gunfire shattered the silence, and the story began and tragedy began. People fled in a hurry, flowing everywhere like scattered sand. The initiators are the German fascists, and fascism is a terrible existence, because they often go with bloody sacrifices.
But at this time, Spielmann did not know the smell of death, and the sound of gunfire seemed to him to be the fireworks of the festival. He appears in the form of an elegant gentleman, both in stature and in speech. When the family was packing up their things and preparing to leave, he was reluctant, saying, "If I had to die, I'd rather die at home." When he and Dorotta went out for coffee, the "No Jews Allowed" at the door also made him make a mockery of his identity, as if it was no big deal. At this time, Spielman was like a flightless swallow, thinking that there was no danger in wo'an behind the church, but he did not know that the danger was quietly approaching, because of his own identity - a Jew.
Jews are a very intelligent people, they are good at economics, they can make their lives very good, they also love to read, UNESCO once surveyed, Jews with 64 per capita annual reading volume of the world's largest, although they are small, but they account for a large proportion of Nobel Laureates. But such a good people, but in the Second World War suffered a fatal blow, they must wear a Jewish star on their arms, this strategy is nothing more than to make them recognize their identity, they must also live in the Jewish quarters, with a wall to separate their status from others. The wall was not separated by a precipitation divide, not a temperature divide, but simply because they were Jews. If you want to add to your sins, there is no excuse for it.
Schippierman, who was forced to go to the Jewish Quarter at the moment, did not yet know what they would face, and he naively told Dorotta, "It won't be long, don't worry." Is it true that the journey of a large number of Jews in large bags into uncharted territory is, as Spielmann put it, "not too long"?
No, here the sky is like a dense web, trapping all the black and evil, decay and killing melt into here, and the net becomes more and more dirty. The German fascists took pleasure in killing Jews, throwing the wheelchair-bound old man from the sky, letting a large group of people run wild to be free targets, real, so dark and real, that the horror could be felt across the screen. Time will bring the truth, and Spielmann has understood their situation, he knows life and death. Because he had seen the child beaten to death and he was helpless, a weak body in his hands was like a controlled puppet, not lifeless with the movement of the line. It turned out that this was not a game, but a parting of life and death, and his so-called long time became more and more elusive.
Later these German soldiers drove the Jews to a place, and so many people were all pulled away by a train, and the train drove forward, whimpering and mournful. The movie doesn't say where they're going to go, but we know that these people will go to concentration camps, another kind of hell on earth, and there is no second choice but to die. Spielmann was pulled out by a man, he walked alone in the Jewish Quarter, where corpses were strewn across the field, and he gradually walked forward, and the wind blew up the debris, and he cried in pain, and the tears smeared his face, and at this moment, his family, his glory, his stability, were gone. Now he is an outlaw, as long as he lives, he doesn't care about anything.
Schippierman who lost everything, image source iQiyi
Now the great pianist had chosen to live, and in order to survive, he lay on the ground begging the Germans for forgiveness, so the strong desire to survive made him want to escape, to escape from the German control. Later, with the help of a series of friends, he survived. Constantly changing places, listening to the sound of artillery fire outside at night. In the face of war, people are as small as ants, and occasionally get food and worry about whether they will encounter humans, human beings are not rare ants' food, only love to play with them. Finally, the humans left, the nest collapsed, and the beaten outlier ants had to look at the sky full of smog, but the structure of the body made it difficult for them to look up comfortably. So, at this moment, humans become ants, and it is still humans who harm them, constantly circulating.
The details in the film are well handled, so that our eyes always follow the protagonist, and Spielman often stands in the window to watch what is happening outside, from the beginning of the killing of Jews to the later Jewish rebellion, all the twists and turns are through this window. He peeked into it all from the window ledge, bathed in the light that sprinkled on the curtains. He saw the revolt of the Jews, he saw the revolt of the Poles, he saw hope slowly blossoming.
He was looking out the window at the rebellious people, picture source iQiyi
In fact, it is difficult to define the protagonist as a hero, and this movie does not have a very O'Henry-like ending, everything seems very real. The war only taught him how to live, not how to fight heroically. Here, Spielmann learned to pretend to be a corpse to hide from the German soldiers, and the gentleman who had been there seemed to be absent, he learned to crawl up, to learn to bow his waist. But some people's nature is difficult to change, even if life is like this, changing his hairstyle, his posture, can not change his identity as a pianist. Every part of his body tried to be different from before, but his fingers, the fingers that could play the piano, were still tapping flexibly, to be precise, silently, anywhere, in any shape, the Chopin Nocturne would always flow out slowly, giving people the most relaxed posture. Silent playing, accompanied by gunfire and smoke.
A grand pianist who is enjoying music, picture source iQiyi
A corner of the land was also destroyed by the German soldiers, and the cruel fascists began to burn everywhere, forcing Spielmann to flee. He was climbing all the way, climbing constantly, but every time he climbed, he saw not warmth, but ruins. But he still trembled and went to climb, and if he did not climb, he would only die. After that, he could only live in an abandoned attic, he was not a lettuce girl, and naturally there was no one to redeem him.
Image source iQiyi
But there must be a miracle in life, Siepiermann met a German officer in search of food, called Wilhelm Hossenfeld, the German officer asked Spielmann to play a song for him, it is Chopin's "First Narrative Song", the tune is not as gentle as "Nocturne in C minor", this song is played very quickly, very high, really in response to Mr. Lu Xun's words, "Do not erupt in silence, perish in silence." Eventually his song touched the German officers, who in the back not only brought him food but also clothes, but also gave us a glimpse of the goodness of humanity in the war.
What I care about is that After Playing the Piano, Spielmann picked up the can that had rolled on the ground a few times. Unconsciously, when he sat, he was enjoying the music of romance, whether at the moment he was bearded or not, but still the gentleman, but when he stood up, what he saw should be life.
After the war, Spielmann still returned to the Polish radio station, he left with dignity, returned in a daze, and finally ended up as a piano piece or as a pianist in full view.
He played life, and he played the rest of his life.
The Pianist
One might ask the German officer? There may also be people who wonder how in reality there could be fascist people helping the Jews.
If it's just a movie, I don't believe it either. Incredibly, "The Pianist" is based on a true story. The author of this book is the protagonist of this article, that is, Spielmann. The officer in the text, William Hossenfeld, is also real.
In fact, when watching the movie, it is not difficult to find that the whole film seems to tell us a story in the form of a documentary, without any exaggerated elements, from the perspective of language, it is a white depiction, but the director likes to use the vast world to show the smallness and helplessness of human beings, and further expounds the violence of human beings with the tragic situation of ruins. This series of contrasts makes the film look heart-wrenching, and there is no denying that director Roman Polanski has done it.
Sipierman in exile, image source iQiyi
Spielmann is similar to the plot of the film, and will not be elaborated on here, but William Hossenfeld really needs to say that he is different from the fascists who only know how to kill, he saved a lot of Jews in the Warsaw district of World War II, he was ashamed of the atrocities of his compatriots, and he gave assistance to many Jews. Like an oasis in the desert, people tend to be grateful to those who send charcoal in the snow during the time of life and death. And William Hossenfeld was one of those people, and when the Russians came in, he could still remember the people he had helped and give the last aid. It is not difficult to imagine what would have happened to Spielmann without him.
starve? freeze to death? Or was he killed by a fascists with a cold bullet?
The ending is no wonder it's all death.
But it was this kindness that helped some people survive the difficult Second World War.
Life is not a novel after all, it is full of miracles. After the war, Spielmann approached the top Polish official and pleaded with the German officer, but the Polish authorities said they had no right to intervene with the Germans in the Soviet Union. Time passed, and finally the German officer died tragically in the concentration camp.
Fortunately, in 2009, at the request of Andrez Spielman, son of Władysław Spielman, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Museum posthumously named Hossenfeld an international righteous man on February 16, 2009. So that's a good saying, "Justice may be late, but it will never be absent." ”
But behind the war, not everyone was Officer William Hossenfeld, and there were many cruel executioners who took pleasure in slaughtering people.
There is a very famous news report called "There is no news in Auschwitz", which concludes with the words "There is nothing new to report on in Auschwitz." The weather is clear, the trees are green, and there are children playing and playing in front of the door. "It was a very warm feeling, even the sun was shining, but only after knowing where Auschwitz was, did I understand that there was a kind of fear and shuddering.
It was hell, it was a Ghetto, a "death factory" built by Nazi Germany to kill Jews. Human intelligence is immeasurable, where they come up with a series of non-humanitarian tortures, and that's really the case, and behind all suffering, there is often a distortion of human nature.
Speaking of the movie "The Pianist", because the era is set in World War II, then we have reason to think about why we did not write from the perspective of a soldier, not from the perspective of resisting the people, but only from the perspective of a romantic, and the whole film is obviously about the pianist, but the part of playing the piano is very small, only around how Spielmann lived.
Yu Hua wrote in the novel "Alive" that "man lives for the sake of pure living, and never for things other than living." "I think the biggest thing about movies is to teach people how to live. Writing about soldiers is not enough, because soldiers are people who only know how to charge, it is difficult for them to evaluate their life cycle, nor can they write about people who resist, and from the very beginning they are ready to sacrifice their lives for righteousness. And writing a pianist is just right, the pianist can better interpret a kind of sadness of suddenly falling from a high place, and can leave his glory to show us how to live.
This is where the director is very successful, and the pianist sets the stage for us, creating an atmosphere for us with the music played by the pianist. In fact, the human resonance that arises after many sufferings is not only to show us sadness, but also to tell us suffering and sorrow with the help of an ordinary person's story.
Please cherish those who have not come easily, please respect every kind of person. Don't be an executioner for a lot of ridiculous remarks.
Roman Polanski
He's the director, a controversial director, and a very talented director.
Disputed matters will not be evaluated. Many things can only be deeply understood if you are immersed in the scene. It is difficult not to go to Yueyang Lou to say that Yueyang Lou is elegant, and it is difficult to understand the long counsel of Taibai without going to Shu Dao, so it is difficult to express the pain of war without experiencing war. Peacetime people can't imagine what we should do when war comes, so why can Roman Polanski make such a wonderful movie?
Let's start with the awards that The Pianist has won, the Palme d'Or at the 55th Cannes Film Festival, the 75th Academy Awards, the 15th European Film Awards, the 60th Golden Globe Awards, the 56th British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards, the 28th French César Awards and the 47th David Awards. Douban's score is particularly high, with 9.2 points. There are often different stories behind good works, in fact, director Roman Polanski has a very similar experience with the film, his parents were also captured in Nazi concentration camps, and his mother unfortunately died there, and Roman Polanski grew up in that desperate environment as a teenager. Times are changing, but some unforgettable experiences will not change, they will melt into flesh and blood until they coexist with flesh and blood.
Many of a person's behaviors are difficult to separate from his upbringing, and it is precisely because Roman Polanski has the same experience that he can find empathy in Spielmann. So there's this great movie or a documentary that's hard to live.
Alive, romantic, human, a lot of it unfolds in this short movie, if you want, you can take a while to see, think about how many people behind our leisure time for us to carry the weight forward.
Novelists will write a lot of works, directors will make a lot of works, write a hundred things, shoot life, when we find a few true knowledge in the vast number of works, or find a conscience, I think everything will come to fruition.