The real question that should be asked about this film is: Why didn't Polanski tell his own story?
The political reasoning one hears is that Szpilman's is the more noble and untainted.
Polanski has already told a part of his story within the density of "Chinatown."
But for the fury, terror, tragedy (his mother died in a concentration camp) and repression he experienced as a child and adolescent through the war and the aftermath of soviet poland, we'll have to wait.
That, I suspect, might really be a hellified work of art.
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The political reasoning one hears is that Szpilman's is the more noble and untainted.
Polanski has already told a part of his story within the density of "Chinatown."
But for the fury, terror, tragedy (his mother died in a concentration camp) and repression he experienced as a child and adolescent through the war and the aftermath of soviet poland, we'll have to wait.
That, I suspect, might really be a hellified work of art.
- bunny 3-04-2003 7:32 am