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Well I just saw the new Polanski's movie called The Pianist
It is a beautiful movie but it is also very violent and realistic. It got the main prize in this year's Cann film festival too...
And then I came across this:
And I though that the Wall Street Jurnal is a well respectable newspaper...How they could publish something like this...It is a lie....
The author of the article doesn't like the movie because it is not showing the Poles as anti-Semites?
How weird....
And it is a great movie too....
What should I do now to respond to that article? Should I sue?
It is like someone would use the N**** word against me.....
It is a beautiful movie but it is also very violent and realistic. It got the main prize in this year's Cann film festival too...
And then I came across this:
Read the entire review hereMr. Polanski's film is perhaps the most personal of the four, largely because he himself is a Holocaust survivor. Based on Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir, it is the story of one of Poland's most accomplished pianists, a Jew who survived the entire occupation in Warsaw--first in the Jewish ghetto, and then on the other side of the wall. The film is visually stunning, and there is a real authenticity to the brutality and inhumanity of life inside the ghetto. But perhaps because the film is a valentine to Polanski's Poland, non-Jewish Poles are depicted only as freedom-fighters and rescuers. The Germans are shown as barbarians, but the attitudes of Polish citizens, most of whom were either complicit or indifferent to the fate of their Jewish neighbors, aren't represented in this movie at all. This skewed vision of Polish history is perhaps related to the fact that both Mr. Szpilman and Mr. Polanski himself--in their special, rarefied cases--would not have survived without the assistance of Polish Catholics. But in their gratitude lies a distortion that favorably colors the anti-Semitic attitudes that the vast majority of Poles had toward Jews.
And I though that the Wall Street Jurnal is a well respectable newspaper...How they could publish something like this...It is a lie....
The author of the article doesn't like the movie because it is not showing the Poles as anti-Semites?
How weird....
And it is a great movie too....
What should I do now to respond to that article? Should I sue?
It is like someone would use the N**** word against me.....