The Brutality of Nazism

Have you ever been forced to do something you don’t really like? Perhaps something that makes other feel disgraceful toward you? Is it because you’re wrong or simply because you’re different? Jews are known having extraordinary intelligent and somewhat rich. The amount of them is lesser than the native German, which somewhat controversial. The Nazi begins from the jealousy and rage of a young Austrian man, Adolf Hitler. He was rejected from the School of Art, which much of its student was Jews. Unsatisfied with the School’s Border opinion, Hitler skipped school and start joining a small politic organization.

The movie, The Pianist, played by Adrien Brody is a film that tells the life and the suffering of Jews who lived at the time where Nazism occurred. He is an outstanding pianist from a rich Jews family. He’s known widely by people and other musicians and has lots of friends, including those who are native German. Never been thought by him or any other Jews that the life of Jews will change vastly and swiftly, or even tragically. The first bomb he heard is when Szpilman play a song in one of the Warsaw Radio station. He is surely shocked and never knew what’s going on. As days pass on, he realizes that the day of Jews’ extermination has started.

Throughout the film, we can see how rude Germans are; how rage and jealousy has made them nothing but merely dogs; how society can change the notion about Jews, how inhumanly they are. There is a scene where a small little boy, trying to smuggle contraband, either food or armed guns. He’s trying to escape from the other side of the wall, but he got busted by the soldiers. He is hit and beaten until he’s dead. Life surely is meaningless to them, isn’t it?

But to be honest, I’ve never seen such a lucky person as Wladyslaw Szpilman. First of all, he saved from the bomb in the Warsaw Radio Station, separated from his family, end up in a ceiling storage room receiving aids from a Captain of regular German Army and yet rise up again, one more time, as the pianist. I also never seen a person has a strong passion and desire just to play piano in his life. Remember the moment when he “plays” the piano slyly in locked apartment and how he touches the edges of piano (the place where he met Wilm Hosenfeld)? It’s so incredible to see such a person, suffering so many unwanted moments and painful minutes, still have an immense desire to play piano; and he did play more the just well. I really like Szpilman’s personality; it shows how passion and vitality can help a person to endure even the most painful moment the world. Music is his Passion, yet Survival is his Masterpiece.