I thot tis movie is so gd it needs a standalone entry itself. I would try to keep it short though... Well, I said TRY!
I did not managed to catch the movie back in 2003... No idea y, maybe coz my bf then wasnt interested, or i simply missed it...
Just like Green Mile and A Beautiful Mind, 2 amazing movies which i actually missed... But A Beautiful Mind i remembered i couldnt find ppl to watch wif me, coz everyone had watched it... Lol... Likewise, Catch Me If You Can... But i saw all these 3 movies on local tv... Gd gracious...
I still haf Aviator to catch and i got a feeling i am going to see it on e tv someday...
Ok back to e Pianist... I did not find out about e movie, so i didnt noe wat its about except tt it was award winning and a show u shdnt miss... Another personal reason y i wanted to catch it is coz of Adrien Brody, i simply love him... So charismatic... But unlike e movie King Kong, where he showed off his charm... This one is real and very realistic looking of him, which i dun think those who love him for King Kong, would like him in tis... But watever, i do!
Its a show about the Polish History... A sad dark chapter from the World War... A Jewish pianist surviving the Nazi takeover and destruction of Warsaw through the whole WWII.
The plot has nothing surprising... Except e revelation of the follow thru of the lead's experience. I was very much affected when i see the Jews being destroyed... Much like Band Of Brothers... This movie is long, it takes u slowly, so that you would feel every inch of pain they went thru... It was very gd story flow i thot, and for a heavy movie, i actually wasnt bored...
I watched it some weeks ago, e night where i got my dvd writer... But i was distracted at the last quarter coz my sis n her bf came to setup and made quite a rukus... If given a chance i may wan to catch e ending, but maybe not, coz e movie is too heavy to watch again...
I was actually traumatised tt night, i couldnt sleep... I thot alot about wat if we experience world war and all tt sorts... How would it be like for Singapore... How would it be like for Chinese, and a female at tt... I then thot about the warring period of sg, e history ive learnt, e documentaries tt i haf seen when i was little...
Ive watched many war movies, coz i am a sucker for tt genre... But this is actually the 1st one tt got me thinking about it...
I guess maybe e thots came coz its a true story... While i followed e character's experiences, it is so damn hard to imagine how he actually survived the whole yrs and ordeal of the war in minute details... At the lowest pt of the movie (there was nothing but a big can of pickles while he tried to open), there was hope, he was helped by surprisingly, one of the German Captain...
And the Captain gave him food (bread n jam) and told him to survive, coz e war is ending...
The lead told him: I duno how to thank you.
Captain: Thank God, not me. He wants us to survive. Well, that's what we have to believe.
And you've got to marvel at the Captain for wat he had done, even though he knew he was a Jew...
Before tt, jus when e lead managed to puncture a small hole in the big can of pickles he was hugging ard after a long time, e Captain saw him... And i thot he was going to kill him...
Captain: Who are you?
Lead: ... (He was speechless and shocked)
Captain: U understand English? (actually i think it wasnt english but i duno wat language they were using)
Lead: Yes
Captain: Who are you?
Lead: A pianist.
Captain: U a jew?
Lead: Yes.
Then the Captain asked him to play something on the piano behind him..
I thot e moment when e lead played on e abandoned/dusty piano in one of e ruins of houses was magical... Its been so long since he last touched one... And he was so weak but moved...
The Captain obviously was moved by his passion n music. So did i.
Captain: You got food?
Lead: (Pointed to e can of pickles)
The Pianist did survived and became a renown one after e war... The Captain however was held as prisoner and died eventually... The Pianist did want to help the Captain but he had no idea wat was his name or where he was...
So sad... But definately a very gd movie... Nothing fancy or hollywoody about e film. Very true and real...
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It already happened in Singapore...the world war II, japanese invaded singapore...they persecuted chinese...
Ironically enough, most of the youth in Singapore who are anime fans and stuff are chinese...
For Malay side, I think singapore wise, my great-grandfather on mother side was in cohort with Japanese...probably bloody smart move (to keep family save that is, but then again...he isn't malay, he's indian), but most malays hate him for being traitor. (the malay-indian line sometimes become extremely blur...i think he likes Malay a lot, so he lives like malay, marries malay, speaks malay even though technically he's indian)
My grandfather on paternal side was forced to work for Japanese in telecomunications. So erm...my father side is anti, my mother side is pro? lol.
I've met this old man where his daughter married Japanese guy. I think in the world war II he was in his 20-30s. He said not all Japanese are bad...
Not all humanity are bad...
But then again, I've always believed a war has no right or wrong, it's always about conflicting beliefs.
Yea, i understand wat u mean.
I was thinking more like what if theres a war in the future. Would we suffer the same as before, stuffs like tt...
No matter which invasion, chinese are always being targeted. Even when there is no actual war now, chinese in other countries are already being mistreated, especially in the south east asia region, if u noe wat i mean.
So it jus shudders to think of war in sg. How the guys would be called in to fight and all the horrible stuffs tt follows... Except tt, we can now no longer hide in secret undergrd basements which my grandparents did in the past.
must hide in storm drains and below flyovers...
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