Yeah I agree with all three of your points Bruno. The NYT complaining that the Szpilman character is too weak seems especially bone headed. The ambiguity there was something even I liked.
I really thought the movie might end (badly for Szpilman) with the mistaken identification by the Poles scene. I wonder if I would have liked that more. Something about the ending - the bit where things get turned around on the "good Nazi" - didn't sit right with me. And strangely, I think it's because it felt tacked on, while also being the only part of the movie that seemed like it might address an interesting, and still open question.
That life was as bad as it gets in the Warsaw ghetto doesn't seem to be too much in doubt. Still, I guess we can never have too many reminders. Whether such reminders constitute good art or not is another question.
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I really thought the movie might end (badly for Szpilman) with the mistaken identification by the Poles scene. I wonder if I would have liked that more. Something about the ending - the bit where things get turned around on the "good Nazi" - didn't sit right with me. And strangely, I think it's because it felt tacked on, while also being the only part of the movie that seemed like it might address an interesting, and still open question.
That life was as bad as it gets in the Warsaw ghetto doesn't seem to be too much in doubt. Still, I guess we can never have too many reminders. Whether such reminders constitute good art or not is another question.
- jim 2-28-2003 11:46 pm