The Screening Room

The Pianist (2002)

Date of first viewing: Sunday, March 23, 2003

Location: Salt Lake City Film Society Theater with Michael

Michael and I escaped from the current Iraqi war on CNN to a Salt Lake City theater showing war-torn Warsaw in the 1940s. Later the same night, Adrian Brody won the Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman in this film. I am too emotional and tired right now to describe this movie further. It is horrific. It is worth seeing. But it is only a movie, and since it is a true story that happened years ago, we know the outcome from the start -- unlike the true story happening in the world right now. What will be the outcome of our story?

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