"The worst thing that evil people can do is to turn you into one of them." Brilliant!!

@LuisSierra42

7 ай бұрын

@yujirohanmaisbestdad yeah, this was one of the main points made in the dark knight

@Siba-zb7dk

7 ай бұрын

False and not true

@DodZz666

6 ай бұрын

Israel and Gaza comes to mind

@VunderGuy

6 ай бұрын

There are no good people, no not one.

@henrykanning245

6 ай бұрын

@@DodZz666it should not this quote does not apply to Isreal and Gaza.

Florya is my vote for the greatest performance in cinema, it boggles my mind that a kid could convey deep existential horror the way he does. It feels 100% authentic and is frankly terrifying at times.

@ck891

5 ай бұрын

The young lad had therapy during the filming of the movie, it deeply resonated within him and disturbed him. Some of the things he saw messed him up real good, despite it being just a film

@snab032

5 ай бұрын

You can watch Andrei Zvyagintsev's film "The Return", where 2 Russian teenagers also played the roles of teenagers with great incredible realism. Also some of the best child and teenage roles in cinema. Unfortunately, one boy died several weeks before the presentation.

@cagneybillingsley2165

4 ай бұрын

come and see is originally a biblical term

@shaggydowns4603

4 ай бұрын

It says this in the first 30 seconds of the video@@cagneybillingsley2165

@AMbradfordfilms

4 ай бұрын

I think it's the most real feeling portrayal of the kind we have ever seen in the medium. It's as scary as it is impressive to pull off.

I saw this movie at a live screening. After the credits rolled, the entire place was silent, everyone just walked out slowly. It was a silent procession after a rollercoaster of suffering.

@CreamyDreamybull

5 ай бұрын

Yeah same. I saw a screening of the 4K restoration at the Laemmle in Santa Monica a few years back. Everyone just looked defeated by the end of it. Glad I could experience something like that on the big screen

@mymaster416

4 ай бұрын

Atrocity propaganda movie made it's job. Who would have guessed?

@molotochnik.i

4 ай бұрын

?? Usually when movies are over everyone silently leaves.

@phillav11

4 ай бұрын

@@mymaster416 The game you’re playing at is a losing one

@aubreypressley1450

3 ай бұрын

​@mymaster416 there's legit evidence that this stuff happened. A former SS officer even admitted as such after one screening. Go be a Nazi somewhere else.

This movie really hit me years ago, I'm from belarus so knowing my ancestors went through something alot similar. For me to be here is always insane to me. They made this movie like this because so many people went through something like this. The message at this end is that anyone can do something so terrible.

@pzaqy76412

6 ай бұрын

I’m an American and was in Belarus in 2018. Love the people and the country. Visited the patriotic museum. Was humbling experience. Every American should have to see this movie to know and understand what the peoples of the former USSR went through in WW II. Especial Belarus 🇧🇾 😢.

@lewis123417

6 ай бұрын

​@@pzaqy76412just a shame about the Belarusian government

@yuriii1999

6 ай бұрын

@pzaqy76412 Most def, a lot of Americans have no clue about what was actually going on around the world other than the American perspective. This movie would change most people's views on the war. That's what's up about going to belarus. I was born there but live in america now but I want to go back to visit and see everything but it's usually impossible to have find a good time to go there.

@kam2894

5 ай бұрын

@@yuriii1999Yep, I’m Russian living in America and it always shocked me how little they knew. I remember I got my history teacher to show a KZread video “The Fallen of WW2” and people were genuinely shocked to see how many Soviets died. I’ve also shown some friends Come and See and it definitely changed their views

@G30RG3KA

5 ай бұрын

27 million Belarusians and Russians and 19 million civilians out of that 12. Yet the world only focused on the Jews. really makes you think.

1/3rd of the Belarus' population was killed in WW2. The way the villagers are killed in Come and See is just 1/600 villages that were burned that way.

@penelopelane7281

3 ай бұрын

Yes, this is what we have to get our heads around. For those of us brought up in affluent peaceful western nations, the scale and depth of atrocity takes real hard psychological work on ourselves to assimilate properly, with all the understandings that brings.

@brunoactis1104

2 ай бұрын

@@penelopelane7281 The west also suffered, obviously not to the same scale. Also the west is very much not peaceful, it's just that they wage war against far away countries, in extremely unequal terms. I mean it's usually just massacres, not war.

@isaacfulton7731

Ай бұрын

If people had an idea what would happen would they have died fighting instead of in the atrocious way they were killed. Why did these places not fight harder. Were their spirits broken. Was it propaganda like how in this movie Hitler was called the liberator. I feel these atrocities are why invasions don't happen today. If you tried today people would fight pots and pans against rifles to not be killed I'm the way many of the victims of the past centuries wars were

@Theendbeginsagain

Ай бұрын

The people who still cream themselves over the Third Reich today ignore things like this.

@sudonim7552

Ай бұрын

@@isaacfulton7731 If oppressed people in any situation united against their oppressors there would be no hope of containing their strength, but that is very rarely the case in reality. Plus, most people will follow orders given by an authority figure, even if those orders lead to their death. In fact most people don't realize they are being ordered to their own deaths until it is too late. This is true for both soldiers who wage war and civilians who suffer it.

"The worst thing evil people can do to you is turn you into them", this hit extremely hard.

@baphyyy7898

5 ай бұрын

I'm 14 and this is deep

@poyobotyahoo7494

3 ай бұрын

​@@baphyyy7898 No need to be so sarcastic mate, sometimes we are allowed to appreciate things like this.

@daveyjoseph6058

Ай бұрын

@@poyobotyahoo7494 sarcasm? what? i sensed none

@poyobotyahoo7494

Ай бұрын

@@daveyjoseph6058 I was talking about the first replier, Baphyy7898.

@Reg_The_Galah

5 күн бұрын

@@baphyyy7898close your legs

"No clue how someone came up with these ideas" when speaking about the barn scene - there were countless of such instanced waged by nazis. My great grandpa always told stories about what he saw in the war. One of them I remember well - it was a well full of kids's bodies

@joez6235

6 ай бұрын

The film sparked quite a bit of controversy because of how similar the events were to what the Soviets were also doing in Eastern Europe. Being a Soviet film it was seen as rather hypocritical but I think it says a lot about just how hopeless it must have felt for those people to be in such a lose-lose situation where no matter which side you support or if you decide to not support either side, the end result is the same for you in any case. There were no heroes coming to save the day, only the horror of men with guns storming your village and committing countless acts of atrocity. If they hadn’t left him behind, how easily could he have been one of the people doing what was done to him?

@jirimakovsky6619

6 ай бұрын

@@joez6235 I never hear of that honestly, but good to know. Both branches of my fammilies moved to the Czech republic right after the war.

@NA-di3yy

6 ай бұрын

@@joez6235 lol what? provide examples of proved soviet atrocities comparable to what nazis did then

@AKKK1182

6 ай бұрын

@@NA-di3yy And the vatnik again climbs out of the cave and yells "PROOFS!!?? PROOOOFS!!???!?"

@WalkingSideways

6 ай бұрын

​@@NA-di3yyYeah, I've never heard of it either. With the cold war and the current situation, I should have heard about these events by now. But there's nothing...?

This and Grave of the fireflies are two of the most devastating films I have ever seen. Witnessing the fate of kids in these films, a very innocent part of me died with both of these films' endings. Thank you for analysing this one.

@LuisSierra42

7 ай бұрын

War absolutely sucks but we seem to not be able to get rid of it

@Bentfrombeyond

7 ай бұрын

I think Grave of the Fireflies gets its point across a little softer, but every bit as emotionally resonant to me.

@DeezNutsOvaYoFace

7 ай бұрын

@@LuisSierra42 War is not what it used to be. Before you could say that ideology, religion, race etc played a major part in escalating conflicts but now it only exists to enrich a few because War Is Expensive. Pentagon pays $1280 for a single coffee mug, this is what war accounting has led to. Rumsfeld probably jerked himself off at night, smiling that he convinced the US citizens to pay that much for a single mug (they regularly pay billions for jets that crash mid test flight too lol). War used to be Hell but now War is a VERY lucatrive business as well as hell for the unlucky few who will be at the recieving end of a missile that cost a few million.

@LuisSierra42

7 ай бұрын

@@DeezNutsOvaYoFace in ancient times, War was literally a profession, it was how people got the resources they needed. That motive is definitely not a new thing

@plmokm33

6 ай бұрын

@@LuisSierra42 Because conflict for resources is an intrinsic part of not just humanity but every single organism on this planet.

One of the things that has marked me the most in recent times, was when, out of morbid curiosity, i went down a rabbit hole of nazi accounts on twitter that i found deep in replies. All of them were so open with their hatred, but the one that affected me the most had a profile picture of the young ss officer in the scene just before he dies. It really put things in perspective. This person saw the same movie as me, but he most likely cheered at every bit of suffering inflicted on florya and the population, and felt pride in the final speech before the germans were gunned down. His hate is not abstract, not detached. He can look at the most vivid face of pure suffering inflicted on a fellow innocent human, and his only reaction is to laugh.

@kg7162

6 ай бұрын

Some time some people want to see the world burn

@brandonmorel2658

6 ай бұрын

Some "people" don't have the right to be called that. These animals can't be treated like normal human beings, for their desires are that of a cockroach. Not even prison is appropriate for them, dog kennels are too lofty. It's terrifying to even hear about them from third hand accounts.

@carbonatedphantom8388

6 ай бұрын

​@@brandonmorel2658An insult to cockroaches. Animals are driven by instinct. Hate is not instinct. Some of us are worse than animals, and that's terrifying.

@divinehorror2543

6 ай бұрын

​@@brandonmorel2658 while I agree with the idea, I disagree with the mentality We must treat nazis and all other evil degenerates as people Not to say they deserve anything less than the death they so readily wish upon others, but that we must be careful not to distance ourselves from the idea that, nobody is born a nazi, nobody is born racist, or sexist, or xenophobic Everybody is at risk of intoctrination, of being swayed to the wrong side, whether it be desperation, past abuse or loneliness But regardless, Hitler, the SS, and every neo nazi, KKK member and hateful murdering psychopath since or before, was, at one time, an innocent child, capable only of what they were taught was right, and just They could have once been anyone And we could have become them, were we not so lucky

@pajejua1818

6 ай бұрын

​@@brandonmorel2658 Re-read what you wrote. You already see things from their perspective, your rage is just directed elsewhere. The hatred that has fermented within these people (yes, they're still people) clearly exists within you.

The moment that stuck with me the most is his friends stepping onto a mine. Seconds before they were talking fondly. They were a plucky group of scavengers on a quest. Then boom. In an instant half of them are dead.

@starhalv2427

5 ай бұрын

That was the scene which made me realise it's not just another war movie, it's reality. I already knew that, but I understood it after that scene.

@ball3677

3 ай бұрын

​@@starhalv2427 That realization hit me when the guy with him got machine gunned later on that night. Just insanely BRUTAL where everyone around him is getting killed. No matter how cool or tough they seem. Everyone is dying around him.

@sophieelsa7469

3 күн бұрын

That happened with my grandfather. He was the only survivor. I've always wondered how that must have affected him

The final Hitler poster scene really impacted me and was so jarring to the carnage the viewer just witnessed. The reverse of Hitler’s life signifies that no amount of brutality, revenge, or gunfire will undo what happened or will rewrite the things that culminated into WW2. There’s also so much controversy over humanizing Hitler in media and I think Come and See did it perfectly: both acknowledging Hitler’s humanity and not disrespecting his victims in the process

@penelopelane7281

3 ай бұрын

Actually, in the three days after death, we review our whole life in reverse, before letting go of it. Knowing this causes us to think further about what those final scenes mean.

I don’t know how anyone can say that any war movie like saving private ryan can be the best war movie when come and see exists, it shows the truth of war with no patriotism and glory to muddle the horrors

@pajejua1818

6 ай бұрын

Saving Private Ryan is barely even a war movie, it's pretty blatant propaganda

@theBrid-gv8je

6 ай бұрын

American

@m.ceniza4688

6 ай бұрын

@@pajejua1818as are all war movies, even Come and See.

@hollowheaded9319

6 ай бұрын

​@@m.ceniza4688 Unlike other war movies where the main character triumphantly guns down bad guys and saves his comrades... In this film the boy accomplishes nothing, he loses everyone he cared about, he fails to save anyone, and there is no ending, we never know if the boy is gonna live or die. It's one of the better anti-war films in my opinion.

@TriflingWhiteBoy

5 ай бұрын

@@hollowheaded9319and thats what we call propaganda😂

The image of the girl with the whistle in her mouth is forever burned into my memory.

@africanlipplateandbonenose3223

3 ай бұрын

where are the movies showing the brutality of the americans, british, or russians? Oh right! They don't exist because this is all jewish propaganda to vilify opposition!

@jackleith3502

2 ай бұрын

This. Don’t think anything has ever disturbed me so much.

@1neAdam12

Ай бұрын

Then the propaganda has done its job.

@andrewsigler7437

Ай бұрын

@@1neAdam12 the propaganda that rape is bad?

@1neAdam12

Ай бұрын

@@andrewsigler7437 The propaganda that Soviet Russia had perfected. "Blame others for the exact crime you're committing." Katyn comes to mind.

A film everyone should watch once. But boy is it like getting dragged across concrete watching it. Hard to call it a good movie but it’s definitely a impressive movie with incredibly thought provoking matter

@Jimmy1982Playlists

7 ай бұрын

Oh, its not hard for me... Klimov's film is without a doubt one of the greatest ever made (as is The Ascent, directed by Klimov's wife). I definitely know what you mean. It's an INCREDIBLY difficult watch - but I feel that many of the best films ever are difficult.

@heeelgekkkkkk

7 ай бұрын

What makes it a difficult watch? Because of how disturbing it is? @@Jimmy1982Playlists

@visassess8607

7 ай бұрын

​@@Jimmy1982PlaylistsI'll be honest, never really liked this movie. Not because of the subject matter but I do think it's not a good film.

@lazedreamor2318

6 ай бұрын

Agreed. This movie is nothing but pure misery porn that isn't bothered with conveying much of a story, and I'm not sure whether to consider it a bad or a good thing. The title perfectly describes what the overall intent was.

@wpw8570

6 ай бұрын

​@lazedreamor2318 Imagine saying a perspn who lived through Nazi attrocities and uses that experience in a film about Nazis is just misery porn. Sometiems movies need to be about history homie

As the brazilian philosopher Paulo Freyre wrote: "When education isn't liberating, the dream of the oppressed, is to became the oppressor". The kid grown up in a enclausurating and hopless world, the only thing he learned was violence and cruelty, the fact that, in the very end, he figured out in what he was becoming, shows how much he learned about said world, and himself.

@pauloduarte3712

5 ай бұрын

This man deztroyed our country.🇧🇷🇧🇷

@starhalv2427

5 ай бұрын

​@@pauloduarte3712 That's sad

@frankkkbard0n315

5 ай бұрын

its actually a really good quote in itself, but ironically, it aplies to the socialists who quote it better than anything else...

@OLEG-gt2yt

5 ай бұрын

Este filme é bom como um remédio contra a estupidez e a hipocrisia, mas, como você pode ver, não ajuda a todos. O que as palavras abstratas de um pedagogo Brasileiro têm a ver com as atrocidades nazistas na Bielorrússia ? O que esse professor sabe sobre o que acontece com uma pessoa quando todos os seus entes queridos são simplesmente mortos no mesmo dia como uma ninhada de ratos ? E o que há dentro de um homem de verdade que o impede de matar um bebé sabendo que esse bebé vai crescer para ser um monstro que vai matar toda a tua família ?

@Drakkross

5 ай бұрын

Unironically quoting a neomarxist ideologue

I'm from the city of Brest (Western Belarus) and it crushes me knowing that a lot of people don't have a clue what was really happening 80 years ago at the eastern front. The very title of this film is quite symbolical. Everyone should come along and SEE for themselves. See what humans are capable of. See the very core of what shall never be forgotten.

@CT-uv8os

5 ай бұрын

Go ask them in Gaza. While the governments of the world sit on their asses...

@tinahale9252

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. I believe every leader should watch this before making decisions that will assuredly repeat this history.

@zonesquestiloveunderworld

4 ай бұрын

I've always found that title so haunting. "Come and see, come and see!" - it sounds like what an enthusiastic child might say. There's something disturbingly "innocent" about it - it reminds me of Mark Twain's depiction of "Satan", and its quote "I can do no wrong, for I do not know what 'wrong' is." What happened in your country is forgotten all too often, even though it's happening again right now in many places across the planet....

@randomannoyance

3 ай бұрын

@@zonesquestiloveunderworld whats interesting is that in russian (the origin language of the movie) the name (more accurately translated as "go and look") sounds more like a command than teasing, like "You want to know what the real war is? Then go and look/come and see" But the official english translation and your interpretation of it is just as haunting

@jonossell121

3 ай бұрын

​@@randomannoyance Whole new perspective. Thanks

Its a great movie because it dispells that sentimental and illusionary notion that all those atrocities must have been committed by some deeply evil people clearly intent on causing the maximum suffering possible. The truth is that anyone can commit atrocities, ruin lives and cause untold amounts of pain, and many times even do it in full belief that they are in the right.

@Breezy-jq6hq

5 ай бұрын

We should always be suspicious of ourselves and realize we are capable of horrendous things.

@SlamdogX

4 ай бұрын

That's what I take from the ending. Not necessarily that it would be evil to kill baby Hitler, but that even Hitler was innocent once, and that anyone has the capacity to do what he did. Like how the doctors that studied the surviving Nazi commanders before they went on trial. They were shocked and horrified to find that they were just normal men that did unfathomably terrible things. They weren't special.

@TRUESLOPP

4 ай бұрын

always know there is an agenda for every world event, nothing ever happens because it was an "accident"

@hateferlife

3 ай бұрын

@@SlamdogX The so-called "banality of evil".

@brunoactis1104

2 ай бұрын

The first half of your comment is still true. You can see it in when the german soldier speaks, they knew exactly what they were doing, they did it in the most terrible way imaginable, and ment it the whole way.

5:35 This scene hit me really hard and is honestly horrifying in a way. To me, this scene displays everything that makes a child a child and exactly what is being stripped away. Watching the two smile and dance with joy as if nothing happened, you start to realize that this is unfortunately a scene that could only exist with children.

@africanlipplateandbonenose3223

3 ай бұрын

where are the movies showing the brutality of the americans, british, or russians? Oh right! They don't exist because this is all jewish propaganda to vilify opposition!

My father was exceptionally physically and mentally abusive to me and my other three siblings. He always spoke of how his father was an alcoholic, and his mother used to beat him with rose bushes (however the hell that even works...?). Whenever those long, intimate conversations with friends broaches that subject, I always make sure to communicate a motto I came with after suffering through living with such a man: "The hottest corners of hell are reserved for those who have had the worst kind of pain imaginable inflicted upon them, and then choose to inflict that pain onto others." Hearing you say the words you did at 11:19 has me feeling very very validated. What an intensely moving notion. I loved your breakdown on this film!

@billybob-zk9nm

3 ай бұрын

With the rose bush. I think he was referring to the thorns being used rather than the actual bush, like grabbing a bunch of them, hitting you in essence to make the thorns scratch u up

@angelab4652

Ай бұрын

Beautifully stated round such a toxic experience. Seems you broke the chain...

The image that has stucked with me the most is at the end when Florian reencounters the girl... Such a devastating image, so harsh and cruel.

@jonossell121

3 ай бұрын

No happy ending or hope. Brutal

@penelopelane7281

3 ай бұрын

Not quite. Despite everything, he shoulders his rifle and goes off to fight another day…@@jonossell121

Stalingrad wasn’t just the deadliest battlefield on the Eastern Front, it was the deadliest battlefield in the entire history of mankind.

@daniellewillis2767

3 ай бұрын

The movie Stalingrad is also fantastic 👏

@riku9768

3 ай бұрын

Context?

@brunoactis1104

2 ай бұрын

@@riku9768 You can literally look it up dude, it's history.

@riku9768

2 ай бұрын

@@brunoactis1104 Was asking for context as to why Stalingrad was mentioned. Was puzzled

@brunoactis1104

2 ай бұрын

@@riku9768 He mentioned it to make clear the magnitude of the war on the eastern front.

When Hollywood hands out Oscars it should have gone to both the film and the boy. Haunting and intense. :(

@SuperKlondike64

Күн бұрын

Unfortunately, I don't think they had Oscars in the USSR.

I feel like films like this need to be required watching in this day and age. Many of us in America especially are so separated from the horrors of war that are so often glorified in our nation and our media. It’s easy to glorify war when you’re not around to see the horrors of it, and the impact on those just trying to live their lives. Great video!

@tenanaciouz

5 ай бұрын

no the america populace doesn't need to be doused in ever more jewish/bolshivek propaganda trying to make it seem like the soviet union waeren't souless, godless murderers

@jcdenton2907

4 ай бұрын

They should show footage of Gaza

@bucky7505

4 ай бұрын

I fucking hate war, I hate it. While there’s many things that stay with me about it, I’ll never forget innocently turning on a Vietnam documentary -or something. And they showed a man - shaking like I’d never seen before - trying to bring a cigarette to his mouth - and he just kept repeating “I wanna go home” over and over again

@karlgunterhupenbach8137

4 ай бұрын

​@@bucky7505So you should hate humans because they are war.

@brunoactis1104

2 ай бұрын

@@bucky7505 That's the one war americans suffered, and they didn't even have a cause to fight for, except for hateful destruction. And what happened when it ended? The veterans got home to a place they were not accepted or understood, war was still something far away for most.

During the massacre scene those weren't though up acts, talk to anyone who had family from the eastern frony. Those things happened.

@cdogthehedgehog6923

6 ай бұрын

He was talking moreso about the shrimp eating and random furry creature on the dudes shoulder.

@BeholdItKnits

Ай бұрын

@@cdogthehedgehog6923 I think the weird creature is a loris. The Nazi whose shoulder it sits on is partly based on Oskar Dirlewanger, who apparently had a pet monkey.

I’m a fan of disturbing films and extreme cinema and this one was easily the most harrowing experience I’ve had with film. Good lord was this brutal. Masterpiece

This film and "Threads" are probably the darkest, most humanistic, and most difficult films to watch ever made. Nice job on the review.

I watched this movie by myself when i was doing a Russian course in 2002. I bought it on sale, figured it would be something to watch on a Friday night after school finished. I knew it was a war movie, but figured it was something like an action flick. Nothing could have prepared me it. I watched it once, and wasn't okay for the rest of the weekend. I kept the movie, but couldn't watch it again

@jonossell121

3 ай бұрын

First time I watched it fucked me up for a month.

@penelopelane7281

3 ай бұрын

Take heart, one day you will be able to watch it with resilience, knowing the depth of evil but retaining your humanity.

I watched this film a month ago or so. I loved it from the beginning. It's absolutely mesmerizing. The sheer violence revolved my guts however it's so wonderfully shot that it's impossible to look away and you have to come and see. But the finale of the film it's just superb! Gotta be one of the greatest films in cinema history and in Russian cinema.

I was obsessed with this movie at one point and was reading discussions and comments about it and many people from the Western countries were often surprised by the plot and seen it an fictional, they were like "wow the creators came up with such horrors!"😨 when in reality that's just how the Eastern Front was. People often get so focused on the Holocaust as the main horror of the WWII, they forget what a meat grinder the Eastern Front was (more than 1 million people have died in the Stalingrad battle alone!) and how many civillians have been killed there in the 40s - millions and millions, and how Slavs were seen and treated the same way as Jews.

@Galy4a

3 ай бұрын

It was a strategic mistake of the Soviet Union not to raise the issue of the genocide of the Slavic people at the Nuremberg trials.

@jonossell121

3 ай бұрын

Maybe more than two million dead civilians and armed forces combined in Stalingrad

@nicolelawless9942

22 күн бұрын

I was also obsessed with the movie also but by the end of last month, I aged from 21 to 28 In 31 days. Woody one of my toys I’ve had for the longest time 17 years nearly now was incredibly traumatised by my aging self and he’s afraid of going near me because Woody fears I might hurt him but I don’t. My Come and See movie is literally like my therapy because of the way how Floyra calms me down very fast because he also feared of me hurting him too but I hugged Floyra when he approaches me, he knows how I’m truly feeling

@jonossell121

21 күн бұрын

@@nicolelawless9942 that's good honey I am happy for you and only want the best for you always love 💞

@nicolelawless9942

21 күн бұрын

@@jonossell121 Thanks, I don’t know where i would be now if Floyra wasn’t here. He knows I’m in love with him

Quite simply one of the great films in cinema history. Period. The two best war films I've ever seen were each, respectively, directed by one married couple - husband Klimov's Come And See and wife Larissa Shepitko's The Ascent. Both should be seen every few years by, basically, everyone who can handle it. These are two films I'd call perfect. Would absolutely love for you to analyze The Ascent, as well. Both films remind us there is nothing glorious about war.

@msdecleir6389

5 ай бұрын

I think you could include all quiet on western front? The Netflix one ….

@TRUESLOPP

4 ай бұрын

@@msdecleir6389 all quiet was pretty dog ngl

@penelopelane7281

3 ай бұрын

Yes, please. What about The Ascent…?

" The worst thing that evil people can do is turn you into one of them. " ... such a true and almost obvious statement ... but shockingly eye-opening

7:05 it’s not only the guilt. It’s also the pain of his damaged hearing next to the wailing grief screams around him

This film is one of the greatest artistic achievements of all time. Absolutely staggering. The nazi dragging a woman into the barn to burn her and all the others alive, gripping her by the hair like a sack of potatoes but stopping to get a light for his cigarette from a colleague, mid task....

@blakeray9856

5 ай бұрын

Yes, exactly, I agree completely. Klimov's eye for details like this one and many other weird and unsettling ones is on the highest level.

The worst irony of the Dirlewanger brigade is that most of the soldiers were Eastern Europeans, these guys just did not care. When even the rest of SD thinks you’ve lost it, you’ve absolutely gone crazy.

@anishapoorwakispotta7754

6 ай бұрын

Anti communism and anti semitism is hell of drug. After WW2, just see how Americans behaved in Vietnam

@marseldagistani1989

6 ай бұрын

@@anishapoorwakispotta7754 Vietnam was in all honesty an unjust war, for both the Vietnamese and the American Draftees, as many of them were just teenagers from poor families, while Sons of Rich Americans who could dodge the draft sat on the sidelines, while their peers were dragged and sent to die in a war of containment. And from what I know, those draftees became jaded and angry, and who to turn their anger to but the very people of the country they were sent to fight in. It's not as if South Vietnam was any better, as the country was so corrupt that the people of S.V. just let the Vietcong march through the country and into Saigon. What I am trying to convey is that in the Vietnam War, everyone was a victim, from the American Soldiers who were drafted to the citizens who were: Napalmed, shelled, bombed, etc. If I recall there was a story where some American soldiers had to clean up the road off of corpses so the tanks could pass through, but missed a few and those corpses became paste under them and said "That's how desensitized we have become to the violence, so much so that we didn't care what happened to the corpse of a fellow man." The Rich dodging war isn't something new, it happened in the Civil War, it happened in WWI and II, Korea, Nam, and the interventions in the middle east.

@obligatoryusername7239

5 ай бұрын

@@anishapoorwakispotta7754 You're blaming anti-communism, as if the Soviets didn't kill *at least* half a million Afghani civilians in only 10 years, ravage Finland and the Baltics, and consistently persecute and deport ethnic minorities (from Tatars and Chechens to Estonians and ethnic Germans). As if Stalin's chief of secret police for years, Lavrenti Beria, wasn't a notorious serial rapist, sadist, and pedophile who would fit right in with Dirlewagner. Not to mention in his last years Stalin himself launched an anti-semitic purge. Communism is not virtue, they have shown themselves to be just as capable of atrocity as the fascists. When France kicked American troops out of their country during the Cold War, Washington left. When Hungary and Czechoslovakia tried the same thing, they got brutally invaded by the Soviets and their "brothers" in the Warsaw Pact.

@General_Rubenski

5 ай бұрын

@@obligatoryusername7239 Goes to show that Far Right and Far Left ideologies are really two different side of the same coin.

@kuppikahvikeisari9120

5 ай бұрын

​​@@General_Rubenskithey indeed are, and thats why when people say far right is rising, they are blind for the far leftism. If we should not forget the far right of the past, we should not do the opposite for the left. You should learn from history and not ignore the history of the ideology you are practicing. Making an argument "true communism is never been done" is a bad one, it has been tried many times and it always ends in tyranny and corruption. Edit. Typos

Regarding 4:30: The Passion of Joan d'arc probably relies on human facial expressions just as much to tell its story, if not more. Maybe it gets a bit of a handicap since it's a silent film and doesn't have audible dialogue but still, there are so many closeups of faces going through strong emotions.

The moment that sticks in my head the most is when Glasha comes with blood pouring out of her thighs and blowing the whistle at about the 2 hours mark

@krysling4860

2 ай бұрын

It's not Glasha

I liked the movie a lot but didn't know how to describe it's artistic narrative. You really hit on the topics well, showing your appreciation for it, and how it made you feel. There's definitely different ways to interpret it but you really summarized it in a way I could only imagine, thanks!

my understanding of the ending was just that all this suffering cant be undone. once the genie is out of the bottle all hell is breaking loose. I guess I missed all those parts. Great vid!

This is one of the heaviest war movies ever made. It doesn't pull punches and fully shows the brutality and senseless evil of war.

damn that was an incredible analysis. I've been putting off watching this movie for years and now I think you've made me feel like it might actually be worthwhile. 10/10

I've been on a tear, watching Holocaust survivors give their firsthand accounts of how their lives started out normal and then the horrific descent into hell. Their stories, as much as this film, remind me that I must never be part of the madness that is hate. Also, burning people alive in barns and churches seems to have been a frequent Nazi tactic, judging by all of the various accounts I've heard. This movie brought that ti life and its something I'll never forget.

@pete8276

4 ай бұрын

Strange how the victims are now doing the same, only instead of barns and churches it's hospitals and playgrounds.

@Uffda.

3 ай бұрын

It’s not all that uncommon a practice. In terms of war, that is. Somewhere large enough to fit everyone, where they’d likely have associations of calm or comfort. And pretty much every town is going to have one. And it cuts down on both time and ammo usage if you can just get everyone in one building and let the fire do the work for you. It’s not uncommon in the historical record at least in part because it is ruthless, cruel efficiency.

@pete8276

2 ай бұрын

@@iamme25yago I disagree, I’ll let your clearly active imagination decide on which particular set of grounds.

Very brutal and realistic movie. One of the best (anti) war movies every made

You are a phenomenal analyst.

What’s wild about that scene in the field with the tracers was that those were real machineguns firing real bullets. Among the best films I’ve ever watched.

It’s a brilliant movie. The actor that played Floriya was so good. It was a very artistic depiction from the director. What struck me is that you never really see the violence occurring, but you get to see just before or after it has occurred, allowing your mind to fill in the horrific details. The plane overhead lent to the feeling of hopelessness of Floriya’s situation - escape is impossible and death is inevitable. Any movie buff should definitely watch this one. It is absolutely captivating from the first minute the last. I’ll occasionally lose focus during a film but the one makes that impossible; you are fully immersed in the mind of Floriya. You feel what he feels.

My grand grand parents both were kids, when their families were hanged and shot in public by nazis in Belarus. They were starving and wandering all alone among the burnt villages, asking for potato skin and boiling it with grass as a dish. After war, my grand grand mother always gave money for those who asked for it - because she actually knew, what is the real need and the real help from people. We will never forget, what nazis and their collaborators did to our people, to Russian, Ukrainian, Belarus, and all other smaller soviet brothers.

Phenomenal, watching Zone of Interest did something to to reignite my interests and ever since I have been on a big WW2 kick over the past few months. Come and See was recommended on Reddit and I watched it but so much of it didn't make sense until seeing your analysis here. Great job!

wow what an in depth analysis. I didnt get the baby Hitler thing at the end upon first watch, now the film is even better. Thank you! :)

thank you. I watched Come-And-See many times, but you identified deep meanings.

@blknmongl342

6 ай бұрын

You got an extremely thick skin, to watch it multiple times.

We've all led sheltered lives. WWII was the rule not the exception. The brutalization of the weak by the strong is the lot of the vast majority of humanity throughout history. At least in the first world, we live in a brief and precious period of relative calm and peace and prosperity.

@kg7162

6 ай бұрын

For the time being, the future is uncertain with all this event may you live a peaceful life Far from these miseries

@brandonmorel2658

6 ай бұрын

The First World unfortunately is the minority. The Third World, which is most of humans beings alive right now, suffer a reality of passive subjugation and extermination at the hands of the First World. Like someone said a long time ago, we have suffered a devastation similar to Vietnam all year round for our entire continuous existence. Most people, while they have not encountered something similar to the events of WWII, they most definitely not lead sheltered lives, under this system of exploitation it's impossible.

@colbyboucher6391

6 ай бұрын

You reeeeally sound like you want to break into some facist bullshit rn

@malbasedvalentine3210

6 ай бұрын

Your words ring true about the sheltered lives, because those sheltered have ironically become the very beasts that Flyora wasn’t meant to become. That vengeance will only lead to the same atrocities seen here, but it all was for not as many merely dehumanize “Nazis”, sympathizers, and praise the opposition like communism or it’s more optical variant, socialism. It’s almost like living without suffering, without pain, without knowing, leads to this very nature in people. Only until we face the circumstance of war can we finally comprehend things.

@malbasedvalentine3210

6 ай бұрын

No matter what, you are left with choices in life. Some unfortunately have two, others have multiple. I made my choice, I die with that choice, and I don’t regret it because the reality of my choice is not far from the others who are almost no different.

a month or two ago, i clicked on this video. about 10 seconds in, i went and watched the film, and i was so utterly affected and transformed by the experience that i forgot to watch this video until now. i had to search again for this, and i'm glad that i did. the movie stuck with me, through every passing week, and i've been through a lot of very bad things in that time. it was almost a comfort to have such a dark, transformative piece of art looming in the back of my mind. i've made plans with my family to watch it with them on saturday, and i am so excited to see it again. something this deep and difficult to unpack deserves much of my time, i think. i love what this video has to say, too, i think it's such an excellent unpacking of this heavy material.

Thanks for the video, the conclusion almost made me cry.

I think a better question is, "Would killing baby Hitler actually change anything?" Sure, Hitler gave the orders, but if all of the Germans refused, nothing would happen. The atrocities of WWII were carried out by enthusiastic collaborators. The social forces and the environmental, economic, and cultural conditions at the time made these sorts of things an inevitably. Eugenics was a huge thing back then, and was only soured for people by the Nazis actions. You're telling me if we had killed Hitler as a baby, someone wouldn't eventually do something like the Holocaust?

@rakeguy7703

5 ай бұрын

"blahblahblah pls don't kill Hitler" - said a nazie weaboo with anime girl avatar.

@nfaisnfgay

5 ай бұрын

Yeah this is always the logical fallacy. The Nazi’s already had a strong founding group. Without Hitler, sure, they may of not grown as quickly, but it still would’ve happened.

@EliteBuildingCompany

4 ай бұрын

@@nfaisnfgay Then, one day, for absolutely no reason at all...

@nfaisnfgay

4 ай бұрын

@@EliteBuildingCompany Yup. The enemies had already written in the world news at the time that the Jews of the world should unite and put economic pressure on Germany. This was going to happen anyway

@EliteBuildingCompany

4 ай бұрын

@@nfaisnfgay "Judea declares war on Germany" i believe was the headline.

A huge thank you for analysing this one!

Fantastic analysis. Really enjoyed this, and your incredibly thoughtful insight.

I legitimately could not figure out where you were going with this at first. Without paying very close attention to the ending, it seems very easy to miss what you’re actually seeing and what it means. You really helped explain it to me

this is a masterpiece of a film and one i’m sure i will not be ready to watch again anytime soon. the most striking scene to me was the final scene, where florya and the other resistance fighters disappear into the woods. he merges with the group and becomes indistinguishable from them. he becomes a real soldier, not the singular hero he childishly imagined at the beginning of the film. the story is no longer about him, but about all of them, who have no doubt witnessed similar atrocities that have changed them within and without. despite their collective suffering and the uncertainty of their futures, they continue on. not for glory or fame, but because it’s the right thing to do. amen. great analysis! liked and subscribed. :3

This is one of the most intense movies I've ever seen. It's brilliant in its subtlety, how the things that you DON'T see or hear in the film conjure up your own images of fear and horror on a very primal level. The first time I saw it was about a month or two ago, and about a third of the way through, I realized that the way they shot it had a way of pulling the viewer in, and making you feel like you weren't even watching a movie anymore, but looking into a mirror. It also made me curious to learn more about what WW2 was like from the perspective of someone from that part of the world, and for an American who's from a military family, that was a very sobering rabbit hole to go down. It's a great film, but if you haven't seen it, just know that it is definitely not an easy watch.

@penelopelane7281

3 ай бұрын

Indeed, not a easy watch, but nevertheless, required viewing.

8:45 They didn't come up with those ideas, they actually happened. You gotta remember, it's a soviet movie, the peopel that LIVED those horrors were not even that old yet. And it's not like american vets, no, they were villagers, grandmas, mothers, sons, everyone directly suffered those things and they when the war was over, life went on.

didn't watch the video yet but i like how "the baby hitler question" is a legitimate statement one can make

They used their atmosphere really well in this movie. Its just disturbing. Even in the times of "peace" in the movie it just has this sickly/snuff film vibe about it. This is the type of movie that i Heavily recommend against watching if you are tripping on psychedelics. If you know what i mean you know what i mean.

2:17 he actually asked "did you poop yourself?" "Full pants?" Im not even joking

Excellent review. Thank you.

excellent video my bro, please, keep them coming!

If you have no clue how someone came up with the ideas of the massacre scenes. You need only look into the histories of the people there. I remeber an interview with a Norwegian SS soldier that served on the eastern front. He said they burned whole villages in churches like in the movie. And that they would many times arrange gladiator fights to the death for the jewish men, saying that the winner would live, only to kill them all in the end anyways

Come and See is the kind of movie I have to see through video essays because I know I won't be able to handle watching it on it's own

Thank you so much for this video essay. I learned about this movie for the first time about an hour ago and went on a rabbit hole. I know I can go watch it for free right here on YT but I am not brave enough. Still I wanted to learn more about the movie and message and this was perfect. Thank you.

Beautiful video for a great movie, Its a bummer soviet era cinema isn't talked about more often

I’ve watched this film for the first time on the 9th of may last year. On the Victory day that was corrupted by existing war-hungry government. I’m not a fan of horrors and violent movies, so my friend tried to tell me not to go, I’m too tender soul for this. But I knew I had to see it. It was shown in a secret place, there were about fifteen of us young people. By the end we were all crying, some of us screaming, some chugging vodka to numb themselves. I tried not to cry as much as I could, but then there was this scene with a girl with a whistle stuck in her mouth. And I couldn’t hold it anymore. Even when I remember it now, a year and a half later, it’s right before my eyes and I can’t stop to hyperventilate and sob. This film is truly a masterpiece, the most devastating thing I’ve ever seen

Klimov's "Come And See" and his wife's "The Ascent" are masterpieces of reflecting on War. ❣️☭

Great analysis Guide to Kulchur has a good breakdown of the movie as well

the title of this video hit me like a psychic wave of energy that almost made me pass out, thank you

Come and See is one of the best movies that i ever seen!

I don’t know if I’m exactly an empath- literally feeling the pain of others, and I don’t know if it can truly exist when it comes to feeling something as extreme as what victims of hitler’s agenda went through. But I do know that even witnessing re-enactments of something like this just breaks a part of me. In middle school (I’m in my mid 30’s now) I remember we had a holocaust survivor come and speak to us in our auditorium. We had a few hundred students and we all got to shake his hand at the end. I was one of the last in line. I had already cried, fighting not to cry out loud. Even as a little girl, I’ve never wanted to be seen crying. By the time I got to shake his hand, I just involuntarily burst out sobbing. He just held onto my hand and patted it with his other hand. I don’t remember what happened after that anymore, it’s been so long. Unfortunately I don’t remember his name anymore either. I’m positive he’s passed away by now. But I wish I had the chance to see him again and tell him so many things. One thing that’s always stuck out in my mind is how bad I felt, sitting there being comforted by the person whose story I’m crying over. I wanted to give him comfort, but all I could do was just stand there and bawl. Even if I had a chance to do it over; to give him all of my compassion and to tell him what an impact he made on me- on so many people, I doubt it would go differently. At least I’m led to believe that as just typing this, I have tears rolling down my cheeks. I guess if anything, I can only hope my tears were enough to tell him what I couldn’t get my voice to speak. After explaining all of that, I know I can’t handle watching this movie. But I’ll keep the people who truly lived it in my heart.

@applesandgrapesfordinner4626

5 ай бұрын

I believe your tears were enough to let him know. I reckon the impression was already lasting.

@dalerimoller272

5 ай бұрын

@applesandgrapesfordinner4626 Thank you for the reassurance. I can only hope so.

This was an amazing video! I just finished watching ‘Come And See’. Amazing film!!!!

This is honestly one of the few movies I've watched once but can't watch again. It is so viscerally terrible to sit through that I can't bring myself to go through it again

This is a movie I don't think I can ever watch again. It destroyed me. I never once thought about the end scene being hopeful, just paralyzing. Maybe I'll be able to see that interpretation in a decade after this film has stopped terrorizing me but I just don't know

@blakeray9856

5 ай бұрын

I watched this movie three times. The second and third viewings were no less harrowing than the first, but I am glad I watched it a few times. It helped me understand the film better and make sense of some scenes that were confusing to me at first. I do not experience the ending of this movie as hopeful at all. True, Fliora does not shoot at the baby Hitler in his mother's lap, he seems to have an awareness of what he has become, what has happened, and that there are no easy answers, no one person to blame, and yet he leaves this scene and joins the troops marching off into the forest to an uncertain future. The war continues.

I read the ending as flyora losing his individuality to become a true soldier as he had always dreamed. After the hitler sequence the camera loses him in the woods momentarilly as he becomes absorbed into the unit and disappears into the column of soldiers. Maybe he drew an ethical line at killing baby hitler, gaining purpose, direction, and a sense of honor...or maybe he realized he was finally broken enough to kill a child, holding that final shot not out of compassion, rather because shooting a poster for revenge is a childish fantasy. He is ready for the real thing now.

@pianiykeks6423

6 ай бұрын

That's the dumbest interpretation I've heard in a while.

@TRUESLOPP

4 ай бұрын

flyora lost his soul and became a cog to the war machine. he understood that everyone starts as a baby, with zero thoughts and the ideas of atrocities come to them by virtue of ignorance and rage from the surroundings. this film essentially is saying that floyra has the capacity to become hitler like everyone else due to what happened to himself, just like hitler had the capacity to become who he is after WW1 and what happened to germany.

Literally Gotta be one of the best videos I’ve ever seen…💯

This is a wonderful narrative....well done to the speaker.

That is why I don’t watch American movies about war… there is no glory or courage in war

@ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460

4 ай бұрын

There is, but there is also blood, brutality, and depravity. It's an odd mix that is not something one should strive for.

@audiemurphy1925

3 ай бұрын

Damn calling Men like Winters a coward is stupid and as spiers as men who would have more courage than you

Lands of BELARUS. The pain that people went though is truly soul-crushing. Soviet people suffered and fought like no other country against fashism. The sacrifice for peace and the future was immence and horrific. Till this day - 9-th May of May is a Victory day in Russian and other post-Soviet countries to be remembered and celebrated with tears in eyes. This movie shows scary realism and psychoanalysis hybrid. The movie is truly deep. The ending is bayong genius and fills heart with hope. God Bless everyone.

This explains things in the film very well for me. Thank you.

Great analysis, what an amazing movie!

the joyous scenes feeling psychotic is exactly what i was thinking - the part where glasha starts tapdancing was so insanely eerie it nearly made me turn the film off

Great film… powerful and the child acting is remarkably remarkable

A lovely, well done video on an a truly amazing film.

Terrific analysis.

The barn scene got to my soul . This same thing happened in what is called Ohio in the United States. In 1787 American Col. M. Crawford led an expedition against the Native peoples they ran across. They would trap them in their homes and burnt them down. Then the European settlers built on top of the ashes. It is not discussed in American history at all. The nations attacked were the Mingo, Wyandotte,Delaware, and Sandusky Seneca. Crawford was later captured and slowly tortured to death by Native women. My Aunties were some of the women who did it. Benjamin Logan also did the same. P.s. Ohio was promised to be the 14th state used for Native Americans only. Now today 12 /10/23 Palestinians are experiencing the same. All 3 groups fighting against those who were /are too greedy and want what doesnt belong to them. Every member of the IDF should be made to watch this and Apocalypse Now. Free Palestine!

Regardless of how you feel about the movie, that young man played his part very well.

You've convinced me to watch this film. Thanks!

Great movie - Just watched it for the first time earlier this year. The Dirlewanger Brigade were among the worst of a bad lot, weren't they?

I think Floria pulling the gun from the sand represents childbirth. A warrior is born.

@TRUESLOPP

4 ай бұрын

he was never a warrior. he was a kid who found a "toy" to play in the war, completely delusional to the travesty to occur.

@codemancz798

4 ай бұрын

He digs up something he shouldn't, hell breaks loose

One of the clearest and most succinct examinations of just one aspect of this incredibly complex, dense, and incredible film! Really nicely put together.

It's a hard watch but worth it. Capturing the hell that is war ain't easy, but this move wrings truth out in just about everything it does. Just make sure you're in a good place mentally. I'm serious.

My review of the film (spoilers in the lower parts): 'Come and See' (1985) Review Come and See is a Soviet film from the year 1985. It was directed by Elem Klimov and the screenplay was written by Ales Adamovich. As children, Klimov had to flee Stalingrad on a boat across the Volga with his mother, while Adamovich's experience directly relates to the story of the film. The title comes from the Book of Revelation: “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, ‘Come and see.' And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.” The story is set in occupied Belarus during the Second World War. It begins on a sandy beach, where our young protagonist, Flyora, a 15 year old boy, together with another boy are digging up artefacts. They find an SVT-40 rifle, and Flyora keeps it. After this, partisans come to visit his house. They take him into the woods as a squire, where he meets Glasha, a girl of about the same age. They meet and form a connection, alternately crying and hysterically laughing over their circumstances. They enjoy their time in the woods together but a bombing attack and a German paratrooper drop scatters them. Flyora and Glasha return to Flyora's house, where an eerie quiet is all that is found. They are happy and glad to find a meal to eat, but wonder where his family and the others have gone. (The film becomes darker around here). On the way out of the village, Glasha notices a pile of bodies behind Flyora's house. The two of them break down hysterically and are found by a partisan, who takes them to his camp. An old man badly burnt blames Flyora for digging up the rifles and causing the events. At this point Flyora is given a mission, to tag along with a motley crew of partisans. Their job is to try and seize some food in a warehouse. They make a mock Hitler out of clay and put a grenade in it as a booby trap in an effort to ambush a German convoy, but everything goes badly wrong when mines suddenly detonate on the road. Flyora and the surviving partisan try to take a cow back from a village as food, but along the way the partisan and cow are killed by machine gun fire. When Flyora awakes from sleeping, he meets a peasant, and then the Germans arrive in large numbers in trucks. The peasant takes him in and tells him to keep quiet. The Germans and their local collaborators round up everyone in the village and herd them into a large barn, with the promise they would be "sent to Germany for work". An SS officer tells them in Russian that they can leave the barn through a window if they leave their children behind. Flyora and a couple of others get out. The rest refuse. The Germans throw grenades and Molotov cocktails into the barn and then shoot at it until everything is silent. Flyora and a few others are spared for the amusement of the German troops. He staggers away and some hours later finds that the partisans have ambushed an SS convoy made up of some of the same troops. They gather round and the Germans and collaborators beg for mercy, which is not granted. Flyora, deeply traumatised by this point, now walks around under the bridge where the partisans are. He finds a portrait of Hitler, this portrait below, with the text reading "Hitler the Liberator". www.posterplakat.com/content/1-the-collection/posters/0-pp-284/PP284.jpg He fires his first shots of the film into Hitler's face as a surreal and chaotic montage of Nazi Germany and Hitler's life plays in reverse interspersed with his anger and shooting. The partisans call for him to keep up, and he follows them along. They walk off into the forest, and again in the next shot, as it turns to snow. I had heard a lot about this film and wanted to see it, being a WW2 history buff and a WW2 film buff, for quite some time. Some of you have probably heard of it as well. Its reputation precedes it as a brutally graphic depiction of the worst crimes of Nazi Germany, but the film is more than just that. I was expecting this part, of course, but all in all the violence does not take up most of the film, only portions. The thing I love most about this film is its surreal nature, and the way how close up expressions of Flyora and Glasha are constantly used to take the viewer out of the moment into a kind of dream-like state. Half of the film feels plainly realistic, and that half is mainly those parts which have more people in them, whereas in the scenes with Flyora and only a few others, the dream-like state is re-entered. Sound is used wonderfully to produce an ominous or a disturbing tone in certain scenes. Sometimes the sound is so subtle you can barely notice it, but it is there: a kind of unsettling rumbling barely perceptible in the background, or a ringing tone. All the audio and visuals come together to put the viewer not only in the location, but also with Flyora's mind, and his mental state, becoming more and more traumatised and less connected with reality throughout the film. The movie is not for the faint of heart, I warn you, but it is not excessively gory or sadistic compared to other war films. It never seems to revel or relish in the gore and atrocities but rather presents them as a backdrop of Flyora's journey through a broken world. On a purely visual level, the narrative towards the end leaves behind the streams and forests of earlier into a wasteland. The final scenes are taken up by burning flames and ruin all around mixed with the cheering and laughing of the German soldiers on their trucks, and then by a puddle in a muddy field in which Hitler's portrait is floating. Some of the scenes, particularly the one with Glasha dancing in the rain to imaginary swing music, are genuinely heart-warming. Still, it is not a happy film all in all, as you could probably tell. The end left me feeling neither very sad nor happy, simply empty in the same way as the devastation in the film. I thought the movie was brilliant, and a really unique piece of art, not only as an audio-visual, but also as a psychological experience. For anyone who has the stomach for this sort of thing, I very highly recommend it.

While this movie is hard to watch, it's still my all time favorite anti-war movie...along with Grave of Fireflies. Great video, thanks!

Incredible analysis

there us no beach in this movie, just a sandy area... Belarus has no coastline

@sergeyalaev9393

6 ай бұрын

Rivers have beaches...and Belarus has both beaches and swamps.

I remember the German officer that was executed, along with non-Germans (Norwegians?) that joined the German military. The non-Germans were trying to put blame on the Germans.

@Galy4a

3 ай бұрын

Those who said “We are not Germans” were Ukrainian nationalists, they took an active part in punitive operations at that time, for example, you can read about Khatyn. Now in modern Ukraine streets are named after them.