This was the first time I’ve ever watched the Pianist but it was very difficult for me to watch. I find it unbearable to watch people in pain and to see any injustices occur so I was very stressed during the movie. The Pianist depicted very emotional and very gruesome scenes of the horrors of World War II. The discrimination felt by the Jews broke my heart and watching Spzilman survive near death experiences kept me on the edge of my seat.

This movie raised many points about how that life is not just black and white. We don’t have just bad times and just good; we have mix of them and they occur in combination. This also explains people. People are not just all inherently good or inherently bad. There is a mix and there is a balance and our definition of what is good and what is evil is not simple. There are so many considerations one must make to judge something and classify as good or evil. The German officer and his German love interest were living in Nazi Germany where there was so much discrimination and hatred towards Jews for no reason. They were murdered, raped and dehumanized in horrific numbers. However, there were some Germans in the minority trying to help the Jews hide and escape which was absolutely amazing to see because it showed that in such a dark and evil time in history, there was still some good in people. Watching people change in the circumstances they were living in was absolutely upsetting because the question comes down how much of a choice did these people have when conforming. In the beginning, it was so difficult for Spzilman to see death but by the end, he had become so numb to death.

This movie made me realize that to reach a dark point of history such as the Holocaust and World War II requires so may injustices to continue without being stopped and they end up piling up and turning into something destructive and awful. It shows that we need to stop any injustice as soon as we see it to prevent any form of injustice and discrimination from culminating into something greater.