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When I saw the trailer of this movie, my first thought was that it probably wouldn't be interesting because the main focus is only on Jackie's point of view after her husband's death. And I think I was right. As I expected, the movie is not something captivating. There's no action, tension or drama. Natalie is great, but even her great acting can't make the movie enough interesting to keep the viewer's attention for a long time. It's also quite monotone. On the other hand, it seemed like it was put a lot of work to make the movie the best it can be. I think the mistake they made is that they only focused on her point of view about Kennedy's death. I mean, a little documentary that is about 30 minutes is enough to tell her story about her husband being murdered. But this movie is about her and they could have shown more aspects of her life and more about her work. Something that's not just connected to the White House. I see the movie much better if they included more about her as a person, an individual, maybe this way people could see her not only as the wife's president but like a talented and intelligent human being that had creative mind and showed people more than they had expected.

The movie is quite simple, but I think that that exactly simplicity made most of the scenes so heartbreaking and overwhelming. There was no filter, just raw and real truth of what jewish people had to go through during WW2. The movie showed desperation, hope, need for survival. Some moments were so heavy that I was not even able to cry, I just simply suffered wathing the main character's misery. Another thing I noticed, and liked, in the film is that some Nazis (specially Captain Hosenfeld) were presented in a positive way that I have not seen in any movie about the WW2 before, it just proves that some of them contained humanity. Also, needless to say but I will say it anyway, the acting game was at a spectacular level. Overall, I think this was a very powerful and distressing documentary not only about one pianist's survival but a story about a whole dark and disturbing era of the human history. Like I said, very heartbreaking movie but definitely a worth watching one.

Although many people have already said this,I still want to mention how amazing the acting game was and how beautiful some scenes were shot. But I will focus mainly on the storyline. Indeed, the plot is worth of admiration. As the movie passes, there are a lot of plot twists and moments filled with tension. But even though there were a lot of unexpected turns, some scenes were pretty monotone, and the movie atmosphere is really exhausting and dark. A lot was happening and in some moments I felt like there was too much things going on. Reading the reviews here, I found some plot holes too but again, I think that was because there were too many things going on on screen and some characters actions got confused. However, I do not deny the movie was made with a good thought (I also really liked the end), but I would change one or two things. Even with the little flaws, I recommend to watch.