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Come and See
Studio: Kino International Release Date: 09/02/2003 Run time: 142 minutes
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Come and See is one of those movies that although you must read the captions because it is a foreign film, you don't even mind because after a few minutes you are so engrossed in the cinematography and story you forget it is not in English.
As a historian and lecturer on historical topics, I can honestly say this is one of the best and most realistic films of the WWII genre. It is ranked up there with Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, and Letters From Iwo Jima.. It is an accurate portrayal of Nazi brutality towards humanity and the overall insanity of warfare in general. A must see....add it to your collection, you'll want to view it more than once.
Bruce D. Griffiths , Sr.
Don't buy this. The film is in poor quality and some of the subtitles have poor translations. There is also very few dvd features. Buy the RUSCICO release instead.
I saw Defiance some time ago, and when I bought it I read an opinion in Amazon of someone who was strongly recommending this film. So, I decided to purchase it too and give a (new) try to Russian films.
But, when I started watching this movie I thought I was in the tunnel of time and that it was Eisenstein rolling Potemkin. The performances didn't contribute also as the actors are terrible and the style of filming is typical of the russian school: loooooong scenes with no meaning at all, looooong takings of the faces which pretend to be expressive but are completely over-performed, ridiculous dialogs, plagued of symbolisms which can have a meaning only for the director but do not contribute to the overall story, etc...
In summary, don't waste your bucks in this piece of crap.
I cannot make any comment on this film that adds anything to the many fine reviews of it that I have read by other viewers and critics. I only wish to add another voice of praise for a work of genius. There is no painting, no work of literature, and no other film that comes close to portrayal of the nature of war and of the human condition achieved by this director, who apparently never made another film, and explained, when asked why, that he could see nothing left to say. I agree with him entirely. The fact that this film combines elements of horror and fantasy with the most brutal realities reflects, I think, the nature of our experience of the world, not this film-maker's methods. This is a searing, shocking, hypnotizing, and somehow extraordinarily beautiful film. It is not a film that will leave you with any feeling that all is right with the world, or ever can be.
To my mind, the best war movie ever made, and one of the best movies of all time period. One might object to calling it a war movie, but the film depicts how war is experienced by a VAST majority of those influenced by it. The movie captures all the extreme confusion and despair that real war imposes upon real humans. The entire movie, the main reason for its brilliance, is that it is essentially an overturning of your imagistic associations with war. Piece by piece, the protagonist's and viewer's associations with war are paralleled, and so are the devastations violence imposes upon protagonist and viewer. And imagery is Klimov's master tool. The child protagonist is by far the most apt choice, with his wide and rapt eyes, as the viewers are seeing real war for the first time, eager at first and soon made speechless.
Truly the name "Come and See" is appropriate, as you are dropped into some fresh hell. Expect to be changed utterly - to view as a witness, through art, suffering as if for the first time.
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