The movie I watched was called The Pianist. The movie is a true story about a pianist who survives WWII. It is based in Warsaw, Poland, just at the start of WWII. The main character, Wladyslaw Szpilman, is Jewish along 
with the rest of his family. At the beginning of the movie the family hears on the radio that Britain and France had declared war on Germany, so they decided to stay in Poland until the end of the war. The quick ending that they were hoping for didn't happen. They faced awful treatment on the streets by people who were not Jewish. They soon are moved into a Jewish Ghetto where they were having a hard time making money to buy food and to support themselves. In 1942 the family was corralled onto a train that would take them to a concentration camp, however, Wladyslaw is saved by a Jewish police man, who keeps him from boarding the train. After this incident he hides for a few days, and soon after joins some Jews who are doing work for some of the Nazis. While working for the Nazis he smuggles in weapons and other items for the Jews in the camp. After a close call where a German officer almost discovers the weapons in the bags, Wladyslaw decides that he needs to get out and take his chances in a larger city. He soon escapes and finds Dorota, who was one of his friends before the Holocaust, and whom he had feelings for. He hides in a vacant apartment where his hiders smuggle him in food. He has to be quiet at all times, however, because there are many Germans in the building who could call the police if they found out there was a Jew among them. One day in 1944 the Germans start firing at the building where he was in hiding. He must escape and he stays at the deserted hospital across the street for a couple of days. The Germans then open fire on the Hospital, so he jumps the wall that leads him into the Jewish Ghetto. He goes from building to building looking for food and hiding from the Germans. Not too long after this, 
Wladyslaw is found by a German officer, Captain Wilm Hosenfeld. Wilm asks Wladyslaw to play a piano piece for him after Wladyslaw tells him that he is a pianist. Wladyslaw plays the piano for the first time since he worked in the Jewish ghetto many years before. Hosenfeld helps Wladyslaw survive by bringing him food and by giving him one of his coats so that Wladyslaw may keep warm in the cold weather. Wladyslaw survives and is found by some Poles. The Poles think that Wladyslaw is a German officer because he is wearing Hosenfeld's coat, so they start firing at him. Wladyslaw finally convinces them that he is Polish and that he is only wearing the coat so he can stay warm. Wladyslaw Sspilman survives the Holocaust and when he is finally freed, he becomes a Polish pianist who plays on the radio. The closing title cards say that Hosenfeld died in Russia in 1952, and that Wladyslaw lived to be 88.
I thought this was a good movie, however, at some parts it was hard to follow because there wasn't a lot of dialogue and all you watched were the characters' actions. I would rate the movie a 7 because it was interesting and it told a true story of a man who survived the Holocaust. It was, however, kind of hard to understand at some points, and there were some parts of the movie that were very slow. I did enjoy the movie, and it was definitely worth watching.
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Great job Emma!