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The perspective of the film was through the eyes of a Holocaust survivor named Wladyslaw Spzilman. The director, Roman Polanski, was inspired by his parents; They were send to several concentration camps, and his mother died at Auschwitz. This made the Holocaust a very personal and traumatic event to him, which is portrayed in his film. Polanski’s point of view of the Holocaust is illustrated in the several scenes and images throughout the movie. For example, the Germans continually put restrictions on the Jews, like when they were limited to only two thousand units of their currency in each household. This was an extremely inadequate amount of money to live off of, so the family tries to find a place to hide the rest of their five thousand. …show more content…

In another situation, an elderly man could not stand up from his wheelchair he was thrown off the balcony to his death. This expresses the brutality and lack of compassion the Nazis had for the Jews. Polanski demonstrates the disrespect and how disposable these human beings were. The Nazis were not even fazed by the horrifying death of the innocent old man. Also, Polanski expresses in another scene that the Wladyslaw was not prejudice against the German’s despite all the wrong they did against him. He has a conversation with a German woman, who is shocked that he can not enter the building, walk in the park, of sit on a bench. All they can do is stand and talk. This also portrays that not all Jews were evil. Polanski shows that there is good in the world, but unfortunately there were a lot of cruel, vicious Germans, like the one portrayed in the apartments. After the women in the apartments realized that Wladyslaw was a Jew, she started screaming to stop his and not let him leave because he was inferior. This is a powerful image because it shows how much people can be influenced by their government to believe such rotten, untruthful

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