Come and See
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Movie Reviews of Come and See
Movie Review: USA NEEDS TO SEE THIS MOVIE: WHAT IS WAR, WHY WAR IS ALWAYS IMMORAL, WAR IS HELL
Summary: 5 Stars
War harms children and other living things.
This is the most honest and exacting movie about war and its direct effects on civilians ever made.
Forget Saving Private Ryan. This movie shows war. Period.
This movie shows why Pope John Paul II declared modern warfare always immoral and unjustifiable and evil. This is why we must stop now in Iraq and Afghanistan and Colombia and everywhere else we wage our dirty wars.
The USA has never experienced warfare. The people of the USA have never been under attack; we have no idea. And so we merrily go attacking other peoples and making life hell for them. We do not know. Father, forgive us the evil we do. We do not know.
See this film. Come and See. And so we will know. And so we will pray we can stop ourselves before we kill some more. Stop our unending, persistent war against other lands.
Never more war. Beat our swords into plows. Feed the hungry refugees our wars create, the orphans we leave without hope.
See this film and know, and act for A Persistent Peace: One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World.
Come and see.
Movie Review: Transcendent!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Come and See"'s attention to the smallest details of dialouge and set dressing is astounding (seemingly documentarian at times), and this is brilliantly contrasted with restraint. The most brilliant moments in this film were universes of echoing silence and looming unknown. I've never seen a film that conveyed forboding and suspense so well. The emotions are such that to define them in words is to overcomplicate them. This film is visceral. It must be experienced to be understood. At the same time, it also works on a very high intellectual level. One could read symbolism into just about every moment of the film. There are scenes steeped in surrealism and theatrical devices that seem MORE real than anything filmed or written to be naturalistic. The screaming and ringing sounds of silence that ensue bombings.... WOW. The blend of the film-making talent and the still fresh two-score-old wounds of Elem Klimov is exceedingly evident, enlightening, and effective. Only some one this close to the real events could have illuminated them as well. This is a film made by some one who was there, but it is not the spin of just anyone who was there. It is the mad unraveling of a poet widower.
You KNOW the history, but you've never FELT it like this.
Movie Review: Best war movie I've ever seen
Summary: 5 Stars
"Come and See" is the best war movie I have ever seen. I think movies like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Stalingrad" don't add up to chump change compared to this one, literally. The thing is that European directors are less concerned with the whole political correctness thing than are American directors. WWII buffs like Spielberg would never produce anything as brutal as this one. No movie expresses the evil of the holocaust like Klimov's "Come and See."
The main character in this movie is a Belorussian boy by name of Florya, who decides to leave his family to join the partisans to fight Hitler's troops. Eventually, though his village gets invaded and his mother, twin sisters, and the rest of the villagers are all killed. Florya gets separated from the partisans and ends up in another village. This is where the movie reaches its highlight as villagers are forced by the SS into a big house, the doors are locked, and then the evil gets unleashed. Grenades and molotov coctails are thrown inside the house and the troops open fire as the whole structure ignites into flames.
During WWII, over 600 Belorussian villages were burned to the ground, together with their inhabitants.
Movie Review: As with a camera of Thunder
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Movie Review: Outstanding with One Caveat
Summary: 5 Stars
I cannot really say anything new to add to the praises already heaped on "Come and See." I thought the entire film was magnificent with one glaring exception: The scene with the captive sniveling SS commander under the bridge pleading for his life and claiming he never killed anyone, talking about what a good father he was, etc., etc.
Sorry, but this is not believable in the least. The Waffen SS most certainly committed the kinds of atrocities depicted in the film, and I had no problem with the portrayal of drunken sadism. This being said, the one thing you cannot do with any veracity is accuse the Waffen SS of being cowards. Certainly a captured senior commander of any Waffen SS combat unit in Russia would not behave in the manner of the character in "Come and See."
And please. . .do not write comments calling me a Nazi lover or defender of the actions of the SS. If you REALLY read what I've said, that is nowhere even marginally implied.