Come and See
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Movie Reviews of Come and See
Movie Review: This is why I love cinema.
Summary: 5 Stars
Films like Come & See remind me why cinema is the most important art form in the world. Books are wonderful as is painted and sculpted art, but anyone can watch a movie and take something from it, whether you can read or not. This is a film that can be understood by any culture, race or religion. Even without subtitles, this movie speaks volumes about mankind, the beauty within people and the horrors of war. I am truly moved by Come & See and I am recommending it to everyone I know. This is the first Russian made film I have ever seen and it would be hard to top. Terrance Malick's The Thin Red Line is shot in a similiar way, but doesn't come close to showing the beauty AND horrors of war like Come & See does. Buy this movie. For the price of a night at the movies, you will own a masterpiece in filmmaking. It is one for the ages. I also suggest high school history teachers showing this to students. It is a very important film indeed.Movie Review: A Very Great Work of Art
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Movie Review: Terrific film about a forgotten war
Summary: 5 Stars
Klimov paints an unforgettable picture of the Eastern Front and the terrible suffering of the Soviet people at the hands of the savage Nazi soldiers. Building his story around a young boy who is uprooted from his family in order to follow the partizans, he presents all the brutality and the horror of the village destruction strategy that Wehrmacht adopted in the occupied territories. Klimov is able to tell his story in a poetical way not only by pictures and dialogues but also by music themes as happens near the beginning of the film with the partisans posing for a photo, accompanied by the famous "Song of the Great Patriotic War" in a short but magestic performance. This is one of the best war films I have ever seen, albeit it doesn't have any battle scenes at all. The real protagonist here is the drama of the innocents and the horror of blind violence.Movie Review: What it was really like
Summary: 5 Stars
This isn't some glorification of war. There are no heroic stands and modern-day Thermopylaes, not even cynicism. This was what it was really like on the Eastern Front. It is brutal and cruel. Ordinary people have their lives brutalised and even those who resist seem to rarely see the enemy; bombs fall down from unseen planes as they fly over the forest. Both my mother and my uncle experienced events very similar to those depicted here; piles of executed naked bodies (what were once your family and neighbours) piled up against the barn, watching ordinary people being burned alive in another. If you feel like sitting back with a beer in your hand waiting for some gung-ho war movie (even if it is an intellectual modern verion shot with "grim realism") forget it. This is a war movie, not Hollywood.Movie Review: what can happen
Summary: 5 Stars
I wouldn't recommend this film to overly sensitive people. It is a grimly realistic portrayal of what can happen, and history tells us has happened, when people are given license and encouragement to indulge their most cruel, brutish impulses. The director has,to my mind, succeeded brilliantly in showing the murderous orgy which resulted when the constraints of culture and civilization were removed. Rather than entertainment, watching this film is an experience, reminiscent of the nightmare visions of Bosch and Brueghel. As a counterpoint to the barbarity we are shown the determination of the invaded people not to be trodden underfoot. Come and See is surely a tribute to the strength of the human will to survive even under these monstrous circumstances.