This movie has a great plot - in 1947, a Polish Jewish violin prodigy, living in London, suddenly disappears, leaving his English close friend, whose family looked after the violinist, angry and sad. Despite loved ones urging him to move on, the friend goes on a journey over many years to find the violinist. He follows a narrow thread of people who met the violinist and who can contribute clues about what happened to him. This movie makes you think about all those Holocaust survivors, some living overseas, who lost all their family in concentration camps. How did they survive such horror? How did they go on to build a life? How could anyone else possibly understand what they went through?
The reaction of the friend when he finds the violinist is silly and unnecessary. Also the violinist's final demand to his his friend is cruel and silly, too - he calls him "my brother" then is really cruel to him? It doesn't make sense.
There are some amazing scenes. Historically the years just after WWII are overlooked, perhaps because people wanted to forget the atrocities and start anew.
This film puts you right back in that era, in a very realistic way.
The reaction of the friend when he finds the violinist is silly and unnecessary. Also the violinist's final demand to his his friend is cruel and silly, too - he calls him "my brother" then is really cruel to him? It doesn't make sense.
There are some amazing scenes. Historically the years just after WWII are overlooked, perhaps because people wanted to forget the atrocities and start anew.
This film puts you right back in that era, in a very realistic way.