The Pianist, simply put, is a fantastic story of survival and the ability of the human spirit to endure. It gives overwhelming testimony to both people's capacity for evil and for good. The film, directed by Roman Polanski, is based on the autobiographical book about the years of the Holocaust by the late Wladyslaw Szpilman, one of the greatest pianists in the world. The Pianist is a great movie on a powerful subject, directed with …showed first 75 words of 783 total…

…showed last 75 words of 783 total…face to face with a historical record presented by films so many times it may seem to have lost some of its power. In this film, the power returns, but it is a mark of this film's particular brilliance that it won't necessarily make you cry. Instead, alarmingly, the Holocaust, and the horrors involved with it becomes brief, and memorable. The Pianist, is without a doubt, a film worthy of high praise on every level.