The Pianist

There are many movies that are set in the second world war and the pianist has received better reviews than many other movies set in the same period.  Naturally this caused me to go in with relatively high expectations.  Unfortunately I felt rather let down by this particular movie as I found it to be just a little boring and it seemed more like a collection of random events instead of a steady flowing movie.  The movie also skipped over the rebellion (as I believe this was supposed to be the Warsaw ghetto) which was one of the most important parts of that ghetto's history.  I was also disappointed by the apparent absence of interesting characters which is one the best parts of a good movie.
The ending was somewhat confusing to me in that the Nazi officer takes pity on Szpilman.  Despite the fact that this was true it is also a very isolated case.  As a whole the Nazi party was brutal, merciless, and simply evil.  As can be seen there were members of the party who disobeyed orders and the morally correct thing but they were very rare.  This is why I am somewhat at a loss for what to make of this.  Hosenfeld seems to be a respectable person though it is not clear why he acted as he did.  Perhaps he was forced to join the army and did not believe in the Nazi ideas.  Maybe he knew that they would lose the war and did not care about Nazi policies anymore (troops often begin to simply cease performing when moral is low).  As for why Szpilman would trust Hosenfeld though, I believe that maybe he didn't.  Szpilman simply had no alternative other than to trust Hosenfeld.  Had he not he surely would have died.