Most Moving Scene...

The scene that almost brought tears to my eyes ( I say almost cause my dad was next to me and i thought it would be embarassing) and my heart sank was when the russians star shooting at Szpilman and with his last remaining piece of strength his shouts out "i'm polish" and they ask him why u wearing that coat and he says "I'm Cold". That entire scene i was like "dont shoot him please" in my head

That would have been really fvcked up. He was saved from a gas chamber line up, where the rest of his family perished. He manages to run away and get in contact with friends that helped him go into hiding. He survives random beatings, shootings and bombings by German soldiers. He also survived years of living under the most horrific and terrifying conditions, suffers through starvation, hyperthermia, severe jaundice, acute inflammation of the gallbladder and a liver the size of a football, with no medical care, no food nor clean water but he still miraculously manages to recover. Then he goes on the run, again for fear of being found, escaping many close calls that would have gotten him immediately shot and killed. When he does eventually get caught by a German soldier, instead of killing him, the soldier is sympathetic and uncharacteristically kind to him. He then helps him to find a better hiding space, brings him food and clean water and even gives him his own coat to keep warm until the Jews are finally liberated and all of his worries and suffering seem to be over. He has miraculously defied all the odds and survived. Then he runs outside in excitement after finally being rescued from this living hell and his liberators shoot him down over a damn coat.









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Not in any particular order but the most disturbing scenes for me were...

The scene where they invade the building directly across from Szpilman's family as they sit down for dinner and the old guy was dumped out of the window in his wheelchair and Szpilman's mother screams out in shock, then his father just sits down in the chair, looking helpless and the brother has to comfort him.

The scene directly after that when all the people in that building are ordered outside, where they attempt to run but the cops shoot them all down like they're having target practice. Then you see one man trying to climb the wall and is shot down like a cockroach.

The scene with the man wrestling that pot out of the old lady's hands and then he lies on his belly and scoops all those beans in his mouth like a hungry dog, while the old lady can do nothing but cry, while hitting him in his back with his hat.

The scene with the little boy stuck under the brick wall, being beaten to death from the other side.

The scene were the German police humiliated then by forcing them to dance in the street, for their own amusement.















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For me, the most moving scene that made me feel sad, is when Adrien Brody was given the opportunity to escape the camp, but as a result, had to leave his family behind. He looked so distraught. His performance was very convincing.

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