No he doesn’t. I was extremely prejudiced against him, going into this film. I don’t particularly like his movies besides the pianist.
But after listening to his and Ryszards stories, what struck me most was: how do you carry on living after experiencing such horrors?
There is a monument in the Warsaw okopowa Jewish cemetery which reads, and I am paraphrasing
“My grandmother on my mother’s side had 17 grandchildren, my grandmother on my father’s side had 14. I am the only one that survived. The rest were murdered by German barbarians.
I will never forgive them”.
And you can feel the intensity of that hate in the words. And you can understand it.
How does one continue to live and not be overcome by hate as that man was? It is incredible comparing the two