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The Pianist: where physics filed for emotional distress and lost.
“Plot holes? We fell in.”
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2002 · Drama / War
The Pianist
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An absolute cinematic disaster.
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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2002
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PLOT SUMMARY
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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@LATE_SHOW_LURKER2026-01-05 07:00 UTC
The Pianist should come with a complimentary pillow for when the third-act CGI soup inevitably kicks in.
@TRAILER_TROLL2026-01-02 11:00 UTC
The script for The Pianist feels like it was entirely written by an algorithm fed nothing but energy-drink commercials.
@AISLE_GHOUL2026-01-15 20:00 UTC
I've seen screen savers with more depth and fewer unnecessary lens flares than The Pianist.
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r/criticalkino · u/MidnightMatinee🔥 4.7k points
Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in The Pianist actually is?
Honestly, The Pianist would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
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r/criticalkino · u/ReelTalkRanter🔥 3.6k points
Unpopular opinion: The Pianist is the most overrated film of the decade
Everyone praising the The Pianist performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.
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r/movies · u/BoomMicBoomer🔥 1.1k points
Hot Take: The Pianist's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Look, I wanted to love The Pianist. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
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r/flicks · u/ContinuityKaren🔥 4.1k points
[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in The Pianist?
Just got out of The Pianist and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.
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