The Pianist- Blog 2

            The theme of man’s inhumanity towards man seemed to be an extremely prevalent one throughout the movie The Pianist. The movie demonstrates how the Nazis throughout the Holocaust, with Jews being isolated and even murdered where they stood. The Jewish people were ostracized by the Nazis and in order to survive, some of the Jews had to hate and even beat other Jews to be fed or be forced to starve. In the movie, a man wrestles a woman for her food, and even though it fell to the ground, he began to eat the food off of the dirty city pavement for the food he had longed for. This cruelty showed how even the prisoners in the ghetto turned on one another in order to stay alive. This cruelty was also used by the Nazi/German police to keep their prisoners in line. The scene where the eight men are told to lay down and then are executed shows the horror of the inhumanity towards man that is exemplified throughout the whole movie. This theme all in all was remarkably similar to that of Elie Weisel’s Night with both showing the cruelty and senseless violence caused by not only Nazis but as well as the other prisoners. This pain and torture from one to another was a very prevalent theme throughout the movie The Pianist.