Just Go!
10 May 2007
What a bargain! I knew that £3 for a film was a good deal but I didn't realise how good of a deal it was. I'm referring to my purchases of The Interpreter and The Pianist a few days ago. I've just watched them and I'm so pleased I bought them. Firstly, The Interpreter was a great thriller film. This was in fact the film that I thought the Constant Gardener was. This one is a hundred times better though. It stars Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn and it's about a plot to assassinate the leader of a small African country in the UN building. One night, when Nicole's character goes back to collect some belongings from an interpreter's booth, she overviews the conversation between two people. They were talking about killing the president of Motobo, a dictator called Edward Zuwaine. She eventually reports the incident to the UN security force and they call in US Secret Service to investigate. Amongst them is Sean Penn's character whose wife had died in a car accident only a couple of weeks prior. At first he is suspicious of her and believes that she's lying. But they realise the gravity of the threat when Nicole becomes a target for the assassins. Sean ends up having to protect her and at the same time race against time to find who the assassins are. The whole thing makes for engrossing viewing. I loved Nicole and Sean's acting and thought that the story was well thought out. I would give it a 8/10.
The second film, The Pianist, was an absolute classic. I can't believe that I've waited this long to watch it. It's a harrowing tale of survival in the hell that was the Nazi suppression of the Jews in Poland. It's based on the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who was a Jew that survived the Nazi occupation. The film spans the whole of the Second World War and depicts the horrors that occurred during that time. You see as Wladyslaw and his family are gradually get treated worse and worse by the Nazis. Until finally they deport over 440,000 Jews off to the concentration camps. Wladyslaw manages to survive thanks the quick action of an acquaintance. His whole family aren't so lucky, however, and are transported to their death. Wladyslaw then has to use his passion for music to enable him to survive until the end of the war when the Russians liberate Poland. We see how he has to go from place to place, constantly in hiding. Thankfully he gets the help of many people who are against the Nazis. He even receives the help of a Nazi officer near the end of the war thanks to his talents playing the piano. The whole film is a chilling reminder of the terrible events on WWII but it also carries a feeling of hope. The hope of one man's survival against all odds. It's a film everyone should watch – 10/10.
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