Wednesday, August 6, 2008

The Pianist

I thought it is a musical film. So I thought of seeing this later. But after seeing this movie as a favorite movie in one of my colleague's blog profile, I watched this movie.

Its not a musical film, which I thought earlier. Its about the survival of a Jewish musician at the time of World War II after the invasion of Germans in Poland. The film showcases many horrors done by Germans like killing, beating & burning of Jews. I am unable to see the film once the Germans started torturing the Jews. Its horrible (May be I am light hearted? 8-) ). I wonder how the kid saw the movie.

The hero hides in an apartment and struggles for food. At one point of time he drinks the unclean water, eats rotten potato. After seeing this I thought how we are gifted.

We, the software engineers, are not starving from food. We really dont know the worth of a single piece of meal. If you ask any software engineer, how his canteen food he will tell that it is the most crap food and they wont eat what they take in their plate. Most of the people are wasting the food in the office. In our office canteen they used to display the amount of cumulative and daily food wastage. Mostly it will be 25kg per day.

In the film, The Pianist, at one scene a family of 5 people will share one piece of caramel. Here is a picture which got Pulitzer prize and showing a hungry children.

Most of the people in this world are starving for food. But here we are wasting kilos of food. If one person wastes a meal, its like he obstructed another perons's meal. After seeing this movie, I sworn myself that here after I wont waste food. Atleast it is a good thing I am doing.