The Pianist - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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• Violence

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  SS soliders line up people (women and men) against a wall and shoot them.

  A young boy tries to crawl under a stone wall, he gets half way through, is grabbed from the other side and is beaten to death. We see him struggling and hear him crying out and then he goes limp(no blood is shown)

  An elderly man in a wheelchair is shoved off a balcony(because he is incapable of standing to greet the germans) and the viewers watch him crash onto the street below. Blood pools around the body. His family is also let out on the street and shot one by one(blood splatter is clearly seen).

  Men are forced to lie face down on the street and are shot one-by-one in the head. The camera is close up and impact wounds with blood splatter are visibly seen.

  Truck drives over multiple bodies leaving streaks of blood. This scene is seen from a window, so wounds aren't clearly visible.

  A man and a woman run through a street, the woman is shot and she falls to her knees.

  A man is whipped on the back until he falls unconscious and dragged through the mud, and a line of men is whipped by a drunken officer.

  A soldier is shot as he and others march through a street; guns are fired from the street into a building and the people inside shoot back, fires break out inside the building and we see people jumping out of windows in flames and hear them hit the ground; others are brought out of the building, lined up and shot.

  Soldiers are shot by civilians, grenades are thrown into a building, and we see puddles of blood on the ground and the building burns.

  A tank takes aim and fires on a building where a man is hiding, he runs to the roof, he is shot at by men in a building in the distance, and as the man runs through the building again he passes a dead man in a stairwell who is burned and tattered.

• Profanity

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  There is more than one use of fuck and they are all said by the Russians.

  5 scatological terms, 3 mild obscenities, 4 exclamations of O God (not used flippantly).

• Intense Scenes

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  Many deaths are seen, including children. The movie is very realistic with this showing blood around children's bodies and wounds.

  SS soliders lines up people (women end men) against a wall and shoot them.

  The film is intended for people 16 over due to war violence and hard tematic.

  Much of the first part of the film is focused on the brutal living conditions faced by the Jewish people in Poland during WWII.

  There are many disturbing, violent scenes throughout, but the majority are in the first half or so.

  Scenes involving a child being beaten to death and an entire family executed in the street are especially intense.

  We watch the degradation of people who are forced to wear arm bands so as to be ethnically labeled, they are forced to leave their homes and belongings, families are separated and we hear that if they do not do as they are ordered they will be severely punished.

  There are several battle scenes and frequent explosions, and an intense scene involving flamethrowers.

  The overall tone of the film is dark and the violence is realistic and hard-hitting.

  Starvation is depicted throughout.