Come and See | Creating The Most Disturbing Film

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@SpikimaMovies
@SpikimaMovies Жыл бұрын
Hope you enjoyed this one. I sure did. What's YOUR favourite 'disturbing non-horror film'? Watch other great cinema for free for 30 days at mubi.com/spikimamovies
@Realsagarbhat
@Realsagarbhat Жыл бұрын
My 2 favorite 'disturbing non-horror film' 1) Shock Corridor (1963) 2) Tesis (1996) by Alejandro Amenabar
@sadponyguerrillagirl_-
@sadponyguerrillagirl_- Жыл бұрын
Come And See is really disturbing but the movie that really takes the cake for the most disturbing film is Salo or The 120 Days of Sodom, which is also really good and based on true events. If you have not heard of it, I would highly recommend researching it ASAP.
@1r0zz
@1r0zz Жыл бұрын
Rise of skywalker is the most disturbing movie I ever seen. It’s disturbing people got paid to make it :/
@gemonizam2469
@gemonizam2469 Жыл бұрын
If I had to choose one, I guess it would be Edmond (2005), even its from Stuart Gordon it is not a horror movie but really taught me not to ponder over my fears too much... "Every fear hides a wish"
@JohnathanEnder
@JohnathanEnder Жыл бұрын
Threads We Need to Talk About Kevin The Vanishing Man Bites Dog
@buttertool6211
@buttertool6211 Жыл бұрын
this movie was so intense and so well made that the director just stopped making movies, he said all that he needed to said
@AD-dg3zz
@AD-dg3zz Жыл бұрын
The filmmaking equivalent of a mic drop
@MonTube2006
@MonTube2006 Жыл бұрын
@@AD-dg3zz not quite. He sucks.
@k.o.h3599
@k.o.h3599 Жыл бұрын
@@MonTube2006 ok n*zi.
@MonTube2006
@MonTube2006 Жыл бұрын
@@k.o.h3599 get lost idiot 😆 I'm as much a naz* as Anne Frank was
@tallspartan117
@tallspartan117 Жыл бұрын
I heard that he stopped making movies because the Russian government was fuckinh with all his ideas. He was barely able to make this movie because they wanted so many things changed so he intentionally didn't finish it until much later when he was able to get his intended vision out.
@SakuraAsranArt
@SakuraAsranArt Жыл бұрын
It's interesting that this film has been called an "unhinged depiction of war" because war itself is unhinged. It's collective insanity!
@Bigjuicydumbdumb
@Bigjuicydumbdumb Жыл бұрын
I think people who think this film isn't realistic are on some copium about the human condition.
@thesequeltoobama7030
@thesequeltoobama7030 Жыл бұрын
@@Bigjuicydumbdumb I don’t think he was saying it’s unrealistic, I think he in a convoluted way was saying that it’s a uniquely raw, unsanitised and unhinged depiction of the depraved places anyone can and will go to in war that’s incomparably disturbing to any other depictions of war in popular cinema
@ApeRiderr
@ApeRiderr Жыл бұрын
@@Bigjuicydumbdumb I feel like it’s not really a war movie. It just shows a kid going nuts after living through some weird dramatized scenes of war crimes.
@sacredsam6046
@sacredsam6046 Жыл бұрын
@@ApeRiderr these depictions are not dramatized you would be shocked with what people do to each other
@ApeRiderr
@ApeRiderr Жыл бұрын
@@sacredsam6046 oh no, I am well aware especially since the setting the movie takes place in it was an SS unit made up of violent felons lol. I just didn’t really find the movie to be that realistic, I just found it strange.
@sappy.7z
@sappy.7z Жыл бұрын
I loved Come and See, it's absolutely dreadful and I never wanna watch it again. 10/10
@VIK_1903
@VIK_1903 Жыл бұрын
I can't think of any other film which I say (and it's true) that I watched it twice on a week and nobody would believe me. And no, I don't plan on rewatching it, even though it's on my favourite list.
@WobblesandBean
@WobblesandBean Жыл бұрын
I don't know how I feel about it. The main character, Flyora, is difficult for me to follow. It's pretty much his fault his entire village was massacred because he blew off the village elder's warning, he tried to drown Glasha, and when the girl at the end walked up after surviving the horrors she was put through, he does nothing to comfort her. A film doesn't need a hero, but as someone who's been through similar traumas he inflicted on others in "Come and See", I just felt sick watching him, even more than seeing the nāzîs. I know that war and its many atrocities will destroy the souls of anyone caught up in its vicious claws and leave them irreparably shattered, but Flyora's actions still seem needlessly cruel, even barbaric, for no other reason than the plot demands it. Same goes for his inexplicable luck all throughout the film. The Ñāzîs kill everyone in a neighboring village, even put their gun to his head, only to take a photo and then leave him alone? It makes no sense. Multiple times he goes out in a group to find food, and is the sole survivor. It took me out of the film a bit because Flyora's plot armor was just so thick. It's a beautiful, poignant, devastating film with brilliant acting, and I respect it as one of the most important films of all time. But seeing it left me feeling disgusted with the characters, not sympathetic.
@VIK_1903
@VIK_1903 Жыл бұрын
@@WobblesandBean you must take into account that Flyora is a 12 year old boy. Not a grown man. With that said, I can't, by any means, see his journey as a LUCKY kid. If anything, it's quite the opposite
@VIK_1903
@VIK_1903 Жыл бұрын
@@WobblesandBean by no means I'm trying to deny you to feel the way you feel about the characters, just trying to give some perspective
@PatrickStar-li9vu
@PatrickStar-li9vu Жыл бұрын
Same
@sample.text.
@sample.text. Жыл бұрын
Some movies are so good you can only watch them once.
@sixteenstringjack
@sixteenstringjack Жыл бұрын
Yes, I can't watch this again, but I'll never forget it
@sixteenstringjack
@sixteenstringjack Жыл бұрын
@@aligmal5031 Yes, I know Threads. Saw it when I was definitely too young! So realisitic, it all looked like people and places I knew then. It's weird, after Come and See I felt crushed but also full of love towards humanity. After Threads I just felt depressed! Haha. 2 STRONG films
@monicarenee7949
@monicarenee7949 Жыл бұрын
That’s how I feel about “Saving Private Ryan”. I can’t watch this one once though, so learning about it through KZbin
@sandym2502
@sandym2502 Жыл бұрын
@@sixteenstringjackhumanity is sick. Hate them. All.
@StrongandConditioned
@StrongandConditioned Жыл бұрын
Such a profound comment. Totally agree
@Realsagarbhat
@Realsagarbhat Жыл бұрын
In my childhood I used to like war movies that had heroic deaths or hero does something unbelievable at the end of war. But now in my 20s I realize there's nothing heroic about war , its just brutality, death and those who survive. War is not cute , its devastating and only very few films portray it honestly - Apocalypse Now, Come and See, Ivan's Childhood etc.
@Jimmy1982Playlists
@Jimmy1982Playlists Жыл бұрын
🎯🎯🎯💯🙏🏼
@serpentinefire921
@serpentinefire921 Жыл бұрын
Threads?!
@scratchynuts
@scratchynuts Жыл бұрын
@Oye good ass film
@thefirm4606
@thefirm4606 Жыл бұрын
All quiet on the western front
@definitivedatpoodlenoodle5366
@definitivedatpoodlenoodle5366 Жыл бұрын
@Oye As well as The Pianist, Johnny Got His Gun, 1917, Empire of The Sun, and Saving Private Ryan, ect.
@aleksandr2245
@aleksandr2245 Жыл бұрын
greetings from Belarus My great-grandmother is buried in one of the cemeteries near Minsk, and there are graves with a single monument. I will never forget when I saw a monument with 5 names on it: a woman and four children aged 2, 3, 4, and 5, all with the same date of death in 1941 or 1942, I don't remember exactly. There are many graves like this
@45HatesOurVets
@45HatesOurVets 3 ай бұрын
Peace be with her.
@spiderdijo7
@spiderdijo7 2 ай бұрын
😢
@НадеждаК-ц1ь
@НадеждаК-ц1ь 8 күн бұрын
А у многих и могил нет.
@gpl992
@gpl992 3 күн бұрын
There was also a mass grave of Jews there that a guy actually discovered 15 years ago but didn't bother to say anything until now 🫣🫠🙃😌
@AirForceFalcons_9922
@AirForceFalcons_9922 Жыл бұрын
The young actor actually physically aged during the making of the movie. His classmates were shocked to see his physical transformation. He went on to become a great actor as an adult.
@alexandermunguia5873
@alexandermunguia5873 Жыл бұрын
He did not age they put makeup on him to make him look older
@steveyuhas9278
@steveyuhas9278 Жыл бұрын
​@@alexandermunguia5873Not to be pedantic, but TECHNICALLY he did age 😉. Sorry, I'll see myself out.
@ulyanak.1596
@ulyanak.1596 Жыл бұрын
defintely not agreat actor as an adult, just a regular russian propaganda lover
@helloworld-ti5zs
@helloworld-ti5zs Жыл бұрын
Find a movie "Star" . He is there. A Soviet soldier. A good war movie.
@JoshuaAndres
@JoshuaAndres Жыл бұрын
What’s his name?
@ImYourOnlyItGirl
@ImYourOnlyItGirl Жыл бұрын
I watched this with my father. Usually during movies neither of us can shut the heck up. We were silent the entire time. And even after the end we both just sat there, in shock. Such an important film everyone should see. As westerners, we mourn the tragedy of Pearl Harbour. But many of us are oblivious to the horrors the East suffered through at the hands of the Axis powers. Insane.
@TheBobafett13
@TheBobafett13 Жыл бұрын
Well said.
@who1285
@who1285 Жыл бұрын
Oh wow see, we never really talked about Pearl Harbour in school so I never thought of it as a big tradegy. Silly I know, but growing up close to so where many WW2 events tok place (in EU) we were mostly just talking about events close by. Crazy, just thinking how much history we might still not know or understand! Good thing we have movies that educate :)
@moonshelter3448
@moonshelter3448 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful comment. Love it. Thank you.❤
@T1tusCr0w
@T1tusCr0w Жыл бұрын
There things out there in the worlds history that would make you feel differently about everything. Sometimes I think we don’t need them in our head. Others I think we need them most of all to see they stay only there.
@dirkz.duggitz1567
@dirkz.duggitz1567 Жыл бұрын
Great comment. Schools dont have the time to teach you all the history you should really know. Thats one reason so many are ignorant the history of slavery. You ask half the ppl in America and they think the civil war ended slavery for the most ppl or that black ppl were enslaved more than anyone else. Both are simply not true. Romans enslaved everybody, even other romans. Pearl Harbor was like the twin towers tragedy just 50 yrs earlier. It rocked our country to the core. Enough that Truman believed 2 atomic bombs sufficient retaliation. Also, alot of japanese americans were taken from their homes during ww2 and put in camps jic they may be spies. So much history alot of ppl will never know because schools either arent keeping kids attention, or just arent teaching it. What is life but time to learn and love? Sry for the book. But the og comment was on point tho.
@limedevil2518
@limedevil2518 Жыл бұрын
'Come and see' made me realise how we often fantasize war in modern movies. 10/10, wouldn't recommend.
@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272
@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272 Жыл бұрын
War can be awful, that is why people make movies about those who choose to fight for what they love instead of what they hate. War is going to happen, and you had better make up your mind sooner rather than later how you are going to fight. You can either be one who is molded by hatred or driven by love.
@aleahcim24
@aleahcim24 3 ай бұрын
your '10/10, wouldn't recommend' is so real lmao, i even told my friends that it was a great movie but i don't recommend it for them to watch it because even I myself would like to unsee the things I've seen
@1D991
@1D991 2 ай бұрын
​@@aleahcim24Definitely one of those, "Glad I saw it and think everyone should see it once, but I'd never recommend it" type films
@PopTartNeko
@PopTartNeko Жыл бұрын
The scene when Glasha glances back to the pile of bodies rotting behind the house just haunts my mind. Just because of how quick and casual (almost accidental) the shot is. Just the most horrifying thing you will ever see in 2 passing seconds. Brilliant movie. I've seen many war movies, many ww2 movies too. None of them depict the horror and trauma as closely and personal as this one does.
@hilarioferreira4805
@hilarioferreira4805 Жыл бұрын
I came here looking for a comment about this scene. Never in my life I felt anything remotely close while watching a movie. That sent real shivers down my spine.
@noaheke2666
@noaheke2666 Жыл бұрын
That shot still haunts me, the casual nature of it, like you said almost accidental. She glances back at a genocide flyora missed
@Arinisonfire
@Arinisonfire Жыл бұрын
That scene is almost like a jump scare. The suspense Klimov builds in the prior scene is so overwhelming - the fact that the entire village seemingly disappeared suddenly, the food still being warm hinting that whatever happened was very recent, the constant buzzing of flies heard throughout the whole scene, Glasha vomiting after trying to eat, and that haunting shot of the two dolls Florya's sisters left broken on the floor. You know something is seriously wrong, the film practically makes it obvious, but Florya is in denial, he thinks his family just escaped to somewhere safer and we the viewers want to believe that as well, but then you get *that* shot once he and Glasha leave the house. It's so sudden and nonchalant its like Klimov is slapping you in the face and saying "you knew they were all dead, stop kidding yourself." And you know the *REALLY* horrifying part? The part that makes me shudder every time I think about it? The slaughter of his family and village was almost certainly retaliation for him joining the partisans. It was called "Bandenbekampfung," or "bandit fighting and it was really what the Nazis did - if one person were even suspected of assisting in partisan activity theyd be murdered along with their family and the rest of their village. The village elder who tells him not to dig at the beginning of the movie was warning him and when Florya meets him again after he's been burnt alive, he essentially confirms it, "didnt I tell you not to dig?" Imagine feeling that, imagine being 14 years old and learning that not only has your family been murdered, but you're the reason they did. It's incomprehensible
@alpha-tomahawk532
@alpha-tomahawk532 Жыл бұрын
The scene with her at the end coming back after being raped got me more... i wouldn't expect from a film to just show someone so brutally wounded after rape that they didn't show, that even thinking about what they might have done to her is unbearable...
@seileen1234
@seileen1234 Жыл бұрын
It's brutal because it feels like real WW2 footage of a mass grave.
@justinholtman
@justinholtman Жыл бұрын
One of the best movie commentary critic channels on KZbin. Criminally underrated.
@shinjukucalling763
@shinjukucalling763 Жыл бұрын
the best and it's not close
@rageagainstmyhairline5574
@rageagainstmyhairline5574 Жыл бұрын
@@shinjukucalling763 Thomas Flight and Spikima are on the same level for me. Watching one of either of their videos is like watching a short from an auteur filmmaker. They have their own vibe going on and are just completely different from other channels. The ONLY other channel that comes close is In Praise Of Shadows, but they do other subjects like art and comics etc.
@justinholtman
@justinholtman Жыл бұрын
@@rageagainstmyhairline5574 yeah I actually just found Thomas not too long ago he’s really good too
@dayofthelords8371
@dayofthelords8371 Жыл бұрын
I dont think ill rewatch this film. So im very grateful that you put together the beautiful images that i didnt appreciate in the horror of watching.
@ashleyschaefferkia2734
@ashleyschaefferkia2734 Жыл бұрын
This movie is absolutely relentless. No comic relief, no real cheers, no happy ending, just the reality of the true hell of war.
@boRalto
@boRalto Жыл бұрын
The most impactful scene to me, was not the atrocities shown and not shown on screen, but rather the scene where he and the girl are basking in the sunlight, running through that vibrantly green forest, showering in the rain. It's such a tremendous left turn in tone and yet slides into place so naturally, that it made me cry. I cried for all their innocence lost and all of their hope shattered throughout the rest of the movie. It is the ONLY breath of fresh air, the only let-up, the only gaze and I underline the word "gaze" on what these two children should've been allowed to have, and how it was robbed from them by that most undescribable act of humanity known as war.
@sixteenstringjack
@sixteenstringjack Жыл бұрын
So true
@UnkleKnuck
@UnkleKnuck Жыл бұрын
Same here, many impactful scenes in this masterpiece but one image that always sticks with me is Glasha dancing in the rain in that lush green forest, with the ghostly 1920's jingle playing faintly
@adrianalobo2513
@adrianalobo2513 10 ай бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👍
@wachimol
@wachimol 8 ай бұрын
to me one of the most impactful shots was during the barn burning, a female nazi officer(?) is savoring some lobster inside a jeep. the juxtaposition of such indulgence happening in the face of terror and genocide speaks volumes
@ajasilikonreffkmimmon
@ajasilikonreffkmimmon 3 ай бұрын
A coping mechanism. Many Vietnam vets are reported during and after the war to mask their emotion with hopelessly funny jokes.
@neilpemberton5523
@neilpemberton5523 Жыл бұрын
An interviewer who described Apocalypse Now as an anti-war film was corrected by its director Francis Ford Coppela, who said the entertainment value of the Ride of the Valkyries sequence meant it was not anti-war. Come And See is 100% anti-war. I was so appalled by the burning barn scene I never want to see it again.
@Pantsinabucket
@Pantsinabucket 11 ай бұрын
That’s not a barn, it’s a church.
@coming_up_roses
@coming_up_roses 9 ай бұрын
well said Kierkegaard
@VoidVintage
@VoidVintage 6 ай бұрын
Nothing like a BBQ 🔥
@proteous8100
@proteous8100 4 күн бұрын
@@VoidVintagenazi
@VoidVintage
@VoidVintage 4 күн бұрын
@@proteous8100 I don't think I've had Nazi yet.. 🤔
@0wlet290
@0wlet290 Жыл бұрын
It was planned to call the movie "Kill Hitler" as in “Kill the Hitler that lurks potentially in all of us!” (explained in one interview) . With that in mind the Hitler-scene has a very different tone and meaning. Also, the last shots them running into the forest with snow makes me wonder if it's a hint towards the "Operation Waldwinter" (eng.: Operation Forest winter). That would basically mean that they are running into their deaths - making it even more sad with "Lacrimosa" playing in the background.
@viktoriaf.1191
@viktoriaf.1191 Жыл бұрын
Holy shit I didn’t even realize that.
@victoriashelly5115
@victoriashelly5115 Жыл бұрын
what is operation waldwinter? I’ve been trying to find sources about it but none of them seem reliable and I feel like I’m searching for it incorrectly
@Godsfavyoyo
@Godsfavyoyo Жыл бұрын
@@victoriashelly5115 it was a code name for a anti partisan operation by the nazis in around 1943 in the Belorussian region of the western Ussr. Basically a ethnic cleansing to get rid of guerrilla forces or revolutionaries forming in nazi territory by its citizens
@kevinahlblad
@kevinahlblad Жыл бұрын
@@victoriashelly5115 Waldwinter was an anti-partisan operations that started 2 years before the movie takes place and at the start was mostly repression tactics and propaganda. When the movie takes place (1943) the risk posed by the partisans to an already struggling German supply line led to regular German army troops, instead of special security divisions to be used for looting and destroying villages and encircling partisans.
@annavg7294
@annavg7294 Жыл бұрын
I didn't even notice Lacrimosa was used. Damn, they thought of everything.
@BrownSugar98
@BrownSugar98 Жыл бұрын
My ex gfs dad was like, "You like war movies?" And downloaded a couple of war films on his roku, and this was one of them. I've only seen it once and I'll never forget it.
@blacknapalm2131
@blacknapalm2131 Жыл бұрын
One thing that always haunted me was the adorable little loris that the officer kept as his pet. He obviously loved and cherished the little thing. Meaning he was not heartless or without feeling or emotion or sentiment. Which made his actions against other human beings even more shocking.
@ivan00001983
@ivan00001983 Жыл бұрын
That guy was modelled upon Oscar Dirlewanger, real life human monster, who also allegedly had a similar pet and did all the things shown in movie - and way worse, he also did them personally
@dykesmcgee3136
@dykesmcgee3136 Жыл бұрын
i don’t see it that way. the loris “arms up” position is a response to stress. and the way he was poking at its groin…
@wallyjames7825
@wallyjames7825 8 ай бұрын
@@dykesmcgee3136that was the partisan soldier holding the loris like that, as opposed to prior when it was sitting on the German officer’s shoulder.
@sharpcheddar7305
@sharpcheddar7305 6 ай бұрын
He even puts a helmet over the lloris when they are burning the barn with the villagers in it so it doesn't witness the atrocity.
@georginacat7667
@georginacat7667 6 ай бұрын
It was meant to illustrate that he considered the life of an animal more valuable than that of one if " these " humans.
@89Awww
@89Awww Жыл бұрын
Come & See should've won best picture for 1985 and Aleksey Kravchenko should've won best actor for his harrowing performance. It's simply the most immersive film I've ever seen.
@benmcfee
@benmcfee Жыл бұрын
And when you consider that Aleksei Kravchenko was not a professional when he made this (though he certainly is today) AND that this was his first movie, the performance is all the more impressive. Also shout out to Olga Mironova, who played his (brief) companion. Both of their performances are utterly haunting.
@gracepicklebottom
@gracepicklebottom 7 ай бұрын
ofc he wasnt a professional he made orders to murder a cow and mishandle animals
@veggiedisease123
@veggiedisease123 4 ай бұрын
@@benmcfee What ever happened to Olga? Do we know? There is very little English information about her after this movie. I take it this was her and only movie. Her performance is amazing.
@benmcfee
@benmcfee 4 ай бұрын
@@veggiedisease123 I agree. And no, I haven't a clue what became of her, but she gave a shattering performance
@НадеждаК-ц1ь
@НадеждаК-ц1ь 8 күн бұрын
​@@veggiedisease123она стала учителем. Живет в Санкт Петербурге.
@paulagarcia3564
@paulagarcia3564 Жыл бұрын
I was uncomfortable the whole time and my bf told me he didnt see it as a horizontal line of events but rather fiora’s memories of the events and sometimes it seems kind of surrealist because that’s how we see memories especially ones that are haunting and traumatizing.
@gunfun7772
@gunfun7772 Жыл бұрын
Kinda makes sense with the emphasis on the faces in the movie. Like the faces are what he remembers most vividly.
@typhoonthunder
@typhoonthunder Жыл бұрын
Come And See is quite possibly the rawest movie ever made. A tapestry of horrific violence, conceited ideologies and human suffering at the hands of the Nazi hoodlums. I’ll never forget the first time I watched it all the way through. I can see why Klimov wanted to name this “Kill Hitler”
@bobdollaz3391
@bobdollaz3391 Жыл бұрын
They were used to worse depravities under the Bolsheviks
@what-uy7go
@what-uy7go Жыл бұрын
@@bobdollaz3391 Many starved and were forcibly relocated under the CPSU during industrialization and collectivization. The Nazis committed mass murder, burned down villages at random, and used natives for slave labour if they weren't outright killing them. It's kind of hard to argue that the USSR was somehow worse than the Nazis, because for all their wrongdoings prewar and postwar, it's a lot better than whatever shithole Europe would've become had the Nazis somehow survived or won
@thefirm4606
@thefirm4606 Жыл бұрын
@@bobdollaz3391 it’s not a competition!
@chilichinashop
@chilichinashop Жыл бұрын
@@bobdollaz3391 hush nazi sympathizer 🤫🤐
@thedreamscripter4002
@thedreamscripter4002 Жыл бұрын
@@bobdollaz3391 Another stupid lie from "Black book of communism"
@hekates-ladder
@hekates-ladder 9 ай бұрын
This video essay was what led me to watch Come and See. All of it was harrowing, but seeing the girl with the whistle in the full context - it was like a full body, deep ache. She and Florya have both been violated by this war and they’re still alive, to live with it. I’ll never forget the feelings this film created in me.
@HectorVII
@HectorVII 10 ай бұрын
that scene with fyora and the girl in the forest and she starts laughing.... i literally felt like her face was morphing in front of my eyes. truly the most terrifying movie ever made
@belkaletto
@belkaletto Жыл бұрын
I’m from Belarus. The country were this movie actually was filmed. Watched it more than 5 times. So beautiful. So true. A real masterpiece. This is the history of every Belarusian family.
@Akella1986
@Akella1986 5 күн бұрын
It was USSR actually
@proteous8100
@proteous8100 4 күн бұрын
@@Akella1986Belarusian SSR*
@gpl992
@gpl992 3 күн бұрын
Its also the History of every Ashkenazi and Romani Family 😢
@adeimousragnarok8150
@adeimousragnarok8150 Жыл бұрын
Let me just say...I have been a Marine for 23 years...been to War twice...and this, this movie...nothing else that Ive seen encapsulates the sheer horrors of War so effectively...I can only imagine the nightmares the cast and crew have endured after making this
@Ailasher
@Ailasher Жыл бұрын
Well, as here sing in one song "there is no family in Russia where its hero was not remembered". 34 million were coscripted and enlisted during the war out of about 200. Not all of them have been to the front lines. About a million of them, for idiological reasons or fear of a terrible death, decided to change sides. Both my grandfathers and my great-uncle were there. One came back from captivity (a sailor), the second was lucky to survive all four years of the war (I don't know what you call it: we have it close to "combat engineers": specifically building water crossings), and the third was missing (infantryman, militia). They all went through hell. And the Soviet authorities let us know at all costs: that this was it and that they are the real heroes who saved us from extermination, and it can't be otherwise. Including films like these. From this, a real cult of victory over the Nazis arose in the country. In part, it is that (the cult, not the victory) bites us in the ass for now, in Ukraine and not only. So, all the survivors knew: they were needed. They had done the most important thing in their lives. They, collectively I mean, were not allowed to dissolve into loneliness and despair. In so many ways. But still drinking a lot. Not everyone, there were real iron men, "real communists" as they called them then, who didn't allow themselves such "weakness" -- I think they probably still fought, but differently, by building, creating rather than by destroying. I was lucky enough to catch them: they were the most hardcore, honest and deterministic people both at work and daily life that I have ever known. If the word "communist" means anything to me personally -- it's their example. One of my kin didn't talk at all about the horrors of captivity, and he got there in '41, fortunately: in the waters of the Baltic sea, otherwise he probably would not have lived one of the East Front "Stammlager" -- where people were literally starved to death if they did not express their willingness to change sides. By forced labor: Germany had a labor shortage. And a sailor then meant, by definition, a man with at least some mechanic skills. The second mentioned only that while they were setting up the crossing and holding the bridgehead, under constant artillery fire, on the other bank - from their company remained a few dozen people. And the first to die were usually the fresh, young recruits who lost their cool under artillery fire. More than once. I even found a description of one of his awards when they started digitizing the archives: "under heavy artillery fire didn't lose his heart and organized the men to continue build the crossing in spite of the heavy losses". Four years... Were they both lucky? More like survivors, like Fiona -- I think so.
@OneLifeJunkJack
@OneLifeJunkJack Жыл бұрын
How about this movie then? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpC1hHend9NjmKM It's about the Russian civil war and it's based on a short novel written in 1923 by a Bolshevik supporter who eventually got shot in the year of The Great Purge. That novel was never accepted by the censors and only got published in 1989. Unfortunately, "Come and See" still feels a little bit like propaganda because the author tries really really hard to show how evil the Nazis were, especially in that scene with the flame thrower. Something written by a Nazi, say, in 1946 would have been more genuine and depressing, with a feeling that all this cruelty was for nothing, with the added sensation that something is not quite right with the narrator. And that's exactly the feeling we get from The Chekist, especially at the very end when the credits roll (it's a difficult movie), so I strongly recommend it.
@laurengin4581
@laurengin4581 Жыл бұрын
@@OneLifeJunkJackfound the Nazi apologist ⬆️
@OneLifeJunkJack
@OneLifeJunkJack Жыл бұрын
@@laurengin4581 Dear God, I'm not a Nazi apologist. Perhaps the fact that I'm not a native speaker made my message unclear. If you want to witness evil, just listen to the things that Pol Pot said during his last interview. Then imagine that it is because of guys like him that people are being killed in wars and that there are a lot of smaller Pol Pots, like Matryoshka dolls. That's what is really terrifying. The majority of Nazis are not going apeshit with a flamethrower and that's not really what I want to see.
@AnIdiotsLantern
@AnIdiotsLantern Жыл бұрын
@@OneLifeJunkJack “I’m not a Nazi apologist, I just think other people were worse then Nazis” - you, apparently
@TheErinlw
@TheErinlw 11 ай бұрын
The build up to the village scene, with the German soldiers slowly entering the town and rounding everyone up so nonchalantly, made my blood run cold.
@amirsinak
@amirsinak Жыл бұрын
When I watched this movie for first time I was holding a slice of pizza in my hand for 45 min
@nicolelawless9942
@nicolelawless9942 6 ай бұрын
I was holding my Come and See movie for a very long time before finally hugging it. The movie has been protecting my emotions ever since but the war has been protecting me for more than 11 years and I don’t know what I’d do without it
@UltimateFalk
@UltimateFalk Жыл бұрын
The perfection of every facial expression portrait in this film had me absolutely floored
@CaseyReviews
@CaseyReviews Жыл бұрын
There's one more thing I want to add on to this. I noticed that some of the most disturbing scenes in the film is where Flora blends into the background. Like when all the villagers were in the church. I think (I might be wrong) that this represents how war takes away people's individuality, and makes life miniscule, and something that can just be thrown away for war.
@klaatubaradanikto1490
@klaatubaradanikto1490 Жыл бұрын
really sad but really on point observation. so many bodies, so many souls lost. literally just scene after scene of crowds in some sort of torment and/or hysteria, its all so disorienting
@g.rathbone764
@g.rathbone764 Жыл бұрын
There’s a scene in this where Flora is dancing with the girl in the forest, and there’s just an ominous distorted radio in the background. It felt so haunting, like even in this moment of joy the horrors of the conflict are looming overhead like an ever present dread.
@zmaleki2906
@zmaleki2906 Жыл бұрын
I live in a country in the middle east, and I sometimes hear people say "we need another Hitler to just erase this cursed region out of earth" It's horrific I know, and you won't believe how many times I've heard that sentence. I recommend this movie to anyone who is stupid enough to say such things.
@maratnedoma6668
@maratnedoma6668 Жыл бұрын
what region they meant?
@serpentinefire921
@serpentinefire921 Жыл бұрын
I mean to be fair Islam is fuckin evil
@bobdollaz3391
@bobdollaz3391 Жыл бұрын
A.H. did nothing wrong
@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim
@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim Жыл бұрын
wow. just….sick.
@neilpemberton5523
@neilpemberton5523 Жыл бұрын
Some Russians who support Putin actually want him to be a modern Stalin.
@HigrationsMintergrund420
@HigrationsMintergrund420 Жыл бұрын
I remember being sick at home and going through "movie classics that nobody knows". I chose and watched this film. I was completely disturbed for DAYS 😅😌
@OhYahDude
@OhYahDude 9 ай бұрын
"They are looking directly at the audience, and by the end it becomes the audience looking at them" that is one of the best takes I've heard. Brilliant
@Loosie_fur
@Loosie_fur 6 ай бұрын
I felt like I myself got PTSD watching it. But seriously, I feel this would be the closest feeling to actually losing your mind. Truly terrifying movie.
@nicolelawless9942
@nicolelawless9942 6 ай бұрын
I remember having PTSD from this movie, I once tried telling Mummy about it but every time I did; I would panic and rush upstairs to breakdown like hell. Woody has become terrified of me because I’m protecting the war greatly from Woodys awful words, if he says anything horrible, the war tells me to lose it for its protection
@Loosie_fur
@Loosie_fur 6 ай бұрын
@@nicolelawless9942 you ok?
@nicolelawless9942
@nicolelawless9942 6 ай бұрын
@@Loosie_fur I was a bit hungover today but I’m definitely better than earlier
@Loosie_fur
@Loosie_fur 6 ай бұрын
@@nicolelawless9942 😂 fair enough.
@nicolelawless9942
@nicolelawless9942 6 ай бұрын
@@Loosie_fur I totally regret watching this movie so drunk and I’m now forever traumatised by this movie even more. I think I need to slow down but there’s nothing a horrified Woody could do now and I only take the movies advice because Come and See understands my feelings no one else does. I think I’m going a bit nuts
@weeeeeeraaaaaa
@weeeeeeraaaaaa Жыл бұрын
Hey, when you mention in the beginning that Flyora murmurs "a cryptic phrase" - not sure if you're aware it's not that cryptic. It's exactly what Glasha told him she wants from life when they first talked - любить, рожать. Great video, inspired me to rewatch!
@cynthiaz2412
@cynthiaz2412 Жыл бұрын
This video essay is so brilliantly written and directed. I've followed this channel for some time and watched many of the videos - finding almost all of them interesting and educational - but I think this is the most powerful one yet. (The part on the Portrait Shot was so incredibly moving, which worked very interestingly with your voice over and explanation of the usage of them.) Indeed a testiment to the film and its subject matter, but also a great demonstration of skill on Spikima's side! Thank you for manking such good video essays and introducing me to great films and the fascinating crafts/techniques behind them!
@SpikimaMovies
@SpikimaMovies Жыл бұрын
Thank you for such a thorough and meaningful review of my review!
@реональдсамойлов
@реональдсамойлов 6 ай бұрын
Я бы обратил ещё внимание, что очень часто камера двигалась по кругу большого радиуса. Заключая в этот круг главного героя. Возможно это отсылка к кругам ада. И ещё один интересный визуальный эффект. После того как группа нацистов фотографируется с Флëрой, налетает клубок чёрного дыма, и он "уносит" с собой нацистов, оставляя Флëру одного. Такой намёк, на инфернальную сущность фашистов.
@Gleamorous
@Gleamorous 8 ай бұрын
that devoid look in the young boys eyes is absolutely haunting in every single scene.
@codemanthe2nd343
@codemanthe2nd343 Жыл бұрын
The portrait shots make me uncomfortable, the ways the actors look into the camera are haunting.
@1D991
@1D991 2 ай бұрын
It's as if the voices of the past that the characters represent are speaking directly ro the viewer, and rather than feeling like a conventional 4th wall break we see in most cinema it feels more like those ghosts have posessed the actors to literally invite us to "come and see" the horrors of war
@ivan00001983
@ivan00001983 Жыл бұрын
An old German ww2 vet once saw this movie, and he came home and cried and said to his family he is crying because all shown was true, they did it all, and worse, multiple times in Eastern front. I guess he once again in his mind went there and relived the bestiality, the horror, the shame...
@klaatubaradanikto1490
@klaatubaradanikto1490 Жыл бұрын
wow, that's insane. but it goes w/o saying everyone should watch this movie. its curious to me how quite a few ppl are saying it's "propaganda," when while its about someone's subjective experience, all these things (and as you said, worse) really happened. i remember in middle school a holocaust survivor recounting a few events that had happened that they had seen and experienced that were just as bad in the film. i dont understand how people can still deny or minimize these atrocities, especially as someone with jewish relatives and ancestry. its just horrible.
@EggwardEgghands
@EggwardEgghands 11 ай бұрын
@@klaatubaradanikto1490 Something can be true and propaganda at the same time. What we're not seeing here is that the Soviet Union did the same to its own people... and then subjected Europe to it when they invaded in 1939. For many countries, this terror was the reality until 1991. Leaving that bit out is the propaganda part.
@obe_595
@obe_595 10 ай бұрын
@@EggwardEgghands I mean thats out of scope of what the movie is.. but you are not wrong.
@EggwardEgghands
@EggwardEgghands 10 ай бұрын
@@obe_595 In a sense yes, but it could also quite easily have been given room in the movie. Scenario: Germans digging a mass grave when their shovels hit dead bodies... from Stalin's mass graves a decade earlier.
@tsarXadam
@tsarXadam 9 ай бұрын
@@EggwardEgghands Straight up Nazi apologia coming from you.
@pepperpattynaise
@pepperpattynaise Жыл бұрын
Ive been thinking about this movie so much lately, and then here it is, this amazing video essay. Thank you for sharing it with us!
@dylancarr8415
@dylancarr8415 Жыл бұрын
What always struck me about the movie was the visable toll the war had on Fylora's face. Especially the space around his eyes emphasising the lack of rest one must have in such a situation, constantly running from death.
@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry
@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry Жыл бұрын
one tragedy of war is how there are people to eager to bring much human suffering under the guise of "glory,honour,hatred"
@arseniilistopad2895
@arseniilistopad2895 Жыл бұрын
If you are interested about other movies like "Come and See" or "Ivan's Childhood" of the same period, you might also check out "The Dawns are Quiet Here" (1972), "The Cranes are Flying" (1957), "Trial on the Road" (1971), "Twenty Days Without War" (1976), "The Fate of A Man" (1959) or more modern "Fortress of War" (2011). They aren't as surrealistic as the former two (those two are quite unique among other films of the same origin regarding WWII), but are still great war (anti-war) dramas.
@kparker2430
@kparker2430 11 ай бұрын
English Film "Threads" - only once
@Squidward558
@Squidward558 Жыл бұрын
This is my all time favorite movie. This analysis is fantastic as well and I love how you can take the use of camera angles to analyze, its something us non-technical people can really appreciate. The reason this movie is my favorite is because its the only movie I've ever seen that left a mark on me. It is traumatizing, sad, beautiful, and most of all, deeply disturbing. I think it should be a must-watch in schools and for everyone, whether you want to or not. Its a horror movie where the monster is us, and the scariest part is that its real.
@LadyAstarionAncunin
@LadyAstarionAncunin Жыл бұрын
I have the Criterion Collection Blu-ray of this film even though it's not the kind of film you just pop in for a relaxing movie night. It is a powerful film, and one I think should be shown in every history class from high school and above.
@cherylsmith4826
@cherylsmith4826 Жыл бұрын
That's a great idea but too intense for many people
@burger5381
@burger5381 Жыл бұрын
I remember watching this movie with some friends and they did the same gasp I did when I saw the corpses of the villagers
@carlpanzram7081
@carlpanzram7081 Жыл бұрын
Jesus christ that is the single most disturbing scene I've ever witnessed, because you KNOW that platoons really went around and executed whole villages. This really opened my eyes.
@phaedrus4931
@phaedrus4931 Жыл бұрын
You did this work of art justice. Cannot believe a video review helped bring me back to the revelations of this film, without the hardships of once again going and seeing. Thank you, for the stark reminders of this tragically illuminating classic.
@rageagainstmyhairline5574
@rageagainstmyhairline5574 Жыл бұрын
There are exactly two channels I genuinely get excited to see an upload from, and you are one of those two. Outstanding work as always :)
@WobblesandBean
@WobblesandBean Жыл бұрын
Who's the other one?
@rageagainstmyhairline5574
@rageagainstmyhairline5574 Жыл бұрын
@@WobblesandBean Thomas Flight.
@Flavio_Mark
@Flavio_Mark 9 ай бұрын
This is a great review! One thing that really stood out to me was the German airplane that appears several times throughout the movie, along with the buzzing becoming more and more intense, as if it was a mythological creature, an omnipresent beast that is always there, lurking, ready to attack, watching your every step, wherever you go, and which has the power to tear you to pieces in a split second. All it takes is one bomb at the right time, landing in the right place, and everything you've done, everything you've gone through to survive, all the brutality you've endured, all the right decisions and excruciating efforts brought about by war simply… disappear. It puts into perspective how small and expendable people are during a war. You only have the ~illusion~ that you control your fate, when in reality you are as tiny as an ant and can be crushed at any moment - as is shown at the beginning of the film, when Floria and his brother are seen from the perspective of the plane. The terrible reality of always being watched by a giant, flying monster that wants to end you. An incredible, unforgettable and horrible film. A must-watch, so that no one dares to repeat the horrors of war.
@jaewon4316
@jaewon4316 Жыл бұрын
absolutely amazing video essay. i watched this recently and this was just what i wanted! gosh i’m scarred.
@AKA-corne
@AKA-corne Жыл бұрын
Just hearing about this movie again gave me anxiety and pure hate. The part where the girl is taken by troops and indicated that she got group raped haunts my mind 💀
@kparker2430
@kparker2430 11 ай бұрын
i get hate as well
@neyadob
@neyadob 10 ай бұрын
That happened much more often in reality than it's been shown in the movie. That's the true, ugly face of war.
@lottavuorinen
@lottavuorinen 5 ай бұрын
@@neyadob Classic men moment
@nimbus2490
@nimbus2490 4 ай бұрын
@@lottavuorinen Lol
@aleahcim24
@aleahcim24 3 ай бұрын
YES THAT SCENE WAS HORRIFYING. When I saw that scene I needed to take a break because I was mortified at the thought that something like that HAPPENED in real life and could be happening anywhere in the world right now because there are real wars going on.
@olgaglera1097
@olgaglera1097 Жыл бұрын
Я видела это кино еще в 80-х, когда мне было лет восемь. И оно до сих пор стоит у меня перед глазами. Особенно момент где мальчик выливает воду из сапог. Почему-то. Не знаю. В детстве ведь можешь понять только какие-то простые вещи. И вот это было мне понятно. Полные сапоги воды для меня означали, что мальчик в очень страшной ситуации. Я попыталась пересмотреть это кино несколько лет назад и не смогла. Моим пределом так и остались те сапоги. Этот фильм действительно может травмировать психику взрослого человека.
@реональдсамойлов
@реональдсамойлов 6 ай бұрын
Я прекрасно вас понимаю. Нас тоже в школе водили на просмотр этого фильма всем классом. Я сейчас смутно помню свои тогдашние ощущения, но это был какой-то глубинный ужас. Девчонки выходили из кинозала в слезах, все молчали погружённые в себя. И насколько помню, мы, после никогда с одноклассниками не обсуждали этот фильм, переваривали его в себе. В середине 2000, когда фильмы стали более доступны, я скачал этот фильм в свою коллекцию и с тех пор, пересматриваю его раз в два-три года. Чаще не могу. Но и реже тоже. Этот фильм надо смотреть, чтобы понимать, до чего может довести человека вседозволенность и безнаказанность. Чтобы когда, кто-то будет пытаться запихать тебе в голову мысль, что х@хлы (м@скали, жыды, чурки и пр.) - нелюди и недостойны жить, воспоминания об этом фильме не давали дорогу этому дерьму. Этот фильм лучшая антипропаганда войны и человеконенавистничества.
@rabbitss11
@rabbitss11 Жыл бұрын
I only became aware of this film about a year ago but was absolutely mesmerized by its brutality and sheer brilliance in capturing the chaos and insanity of war, it's like no other film I've ever seen, it stays with you for a long time after
@Jimmy1982Playlists
@Jimmy1982Playlists Жыл бұрын
One of the greatest films of all time... as is The Ascent, by the director's wife. One married couple created probably the two greatest war films of all time.
@SRR-5657
@SRR-5657 Жыл бұрын
Apparently she died 2 years after making The Ascent, while she was scouting locations for a Movie called Farewell. After her death, Klimov produced a 20 minute tribute film to her. After that he made 3 films, Agony, Farewell, then finally Come and See. Each released in 2 year intervals after her passing. Before her passing he seems to have made mostly documentary, comedy, and drama type films. He hadn't made a film in nearly a decade when his wife died and the released the next 3 films. Think about it, a man makes mostly normal films about drama or comedy or sports while he's married. His wife does, he creates a tribute film to her, then makes 3 films, Agony, Farewell, Come and See.
@ryanhodor1833
@ryanhodor1833 Жыл бұрын
This film is cinema at its most unforgiving, visceral, and brutal. It is an absolutely flawless descent into hell with one of the greatest performances in history.
@Autistic_Cl0wn
@Autistic_Cl0wn Жыл бұрын
This is a quick take, I think the reason the girl wasn't speaking, nor doing much because she was sexually assaulted, and is in shock. It's definitely an implication. Amazing video as always!
@klaatubaradanikto1490
@klaatubaradanikto1490 Жыл бұрын
i had this impression as well, also as to how she would often react to the protagonist with both anger and fear, but also the need to have someone with her and not be alone. the scene when they're in the woods together is so heartbreaking and strangely twisted and hysterical.
@dunngyllite7883
@dunngyllite7883 10 ай бұрын
agreed, it also seems to show in the way she walks in that scene...
@Autistic_Cl0wn
@Autistic_Cl0wn 10 ай бұрын
@@dunngyllite7883 Yes, absolutely.
@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave
@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave 10 ай бұрын
@@dunngyllite7883 the blood is biggest give away
@leehalloway8787
@leehalloway8787 6 ай бұрын
​@@dunngyllite7883 Judging by where the blood was coming from, it definitely seems so.
@adamgardiner5869
@adamgardiner5869 Жыл бұрын
If ever I wanted to convince someone of the value of film critics I'd simply show them this channel. Simply brilliant analysis.
@SickTwistedQueen
@SickTwistedQueen Жыл бұрын
I had this film on my watch list, but seeing this upload in my notifications was what made me finally go watch it! The points you brought up made me absolutely love this film even more. Watching this film was also a very important therapeutic experience for me as a trauma survivor who is still trying to understand my trauma. The things you said about it in your video also help me with that a lot. The performances in this film, too -- wow! Aleksei Kravchenko (Flyora)'s eyes are such an important part of the emotional content. He knows how to use them for sure. Anytime I see a shot of him from this movie I'll be impressed yet again. There is great dramatic acting here, but I'm most impressed with the more subtle performances from the whole cast. Nina Evdokimova (who plays the young woman with the whistle), for example -- her face, her stare, her physicality. Such a horrific film, but it also demands so much important history to learn and to face onself's humanity. Definitely one of the rare films I would love to have a poster of.
@vanillatwilight1701
@vanillatwilight1701 Жыл бұрын
i remeber my brother walking out of his room, an expression I'd never seen on his face before. I knew he was watching that movie so I asked how it was. he was quiet when he said that was one of the most incredible movies he'd ever seen. and that he never wanted me to watch it.
@CaseyMeeko
@CaseyMeeko Жыл бұрын
Thank you for spreading knowledge about most traumatic and most important anti-war movie of the XX century. Anyone who's seen it knows the price of any war and hates it with his whole soul / Your proud russian subscriber.
@HavanaBobChannel
@HavanaBobChannel Жыл бұрын
@@violettray2679 '''''unprovoked'''''' stop watching CNN and BBC
@bellaraizel8549
@bellaraizel8549 Жыл бұрын
@@violettray2679 *putin's war
@ItsTristan1st
@ItsTristan1st Жыл бұрын
@@violettray2679 this film should have explained to you exactly why the war is happening in Ukraine. Never again! It is also important to note that many of the actions in the film were actually carried out by Ukrainians, not Germans. The Soviet Union was unhappy about a member state being portrayed in that manner.
@michaelistoma8356
@michaelistoma8356 10 ай бұрын
​​@@ItsTristan1stthere were lots of russians and belorussians. That's how collaborationism works. Not only ukrainians. So shut your mouth. And germans too.
@michaelistoma8356
@michaelistoma8356 10 ай бұрын
​​@@ItsTristan1stthe war in Ukraine started because putin want to rebuild ussr and keep his power. That's all.
@SixBeark
@SixBeark Жыл бұрын
Your videos are such a wonderful combination of complex film and camera techniques explained in a clear and concrete way that it's impossible not to enjoy. I tend to borrow a lot from your style & approach when attempting to explain psychoanalysis & other challenging forms of film critique. Keep up the great work!
@itsmethedood
@itsmethedood Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the thoughts and efforts Spikima
@pseudotsugame
@pseudotsugame Жыл бұрын
thank you for the detailed technical breakdown of how this movie portrays despair. The bit about the lenses that focus on two things at once was so interesting
@jonjahr3403
@jonjahr3403 8 ай бұрын
I loved Come and See. The acting, camera, lighting and background were flawless or at least nearly flawless in my opinion. That all said it will also haunt me til the day i die. Especially the scene where it looks as if shes walking towards him with the whistle blowing. That whistle sound alone is for me one of the most haunting aspects of the movie.
@slugcult1973
@slugcult1973 6 ай бұрын
This film makes Saving Private Ryan and Apocalypse Now seem like episodes of Sesame Street. It's been called a free fall into barbarism. Which is so accurate. Amazing movie.
@raghav9000
@raghav9000 6 ай бұрын
True, it is very very brutal
@croatoansounds
@croatoansounds Жыл бұрын
Glad to see new videos still being made on this movie! I saw it for the first time five days ago, and I am still trying to fully understand what I watched haha. But it was amazing, just brain scrambling
@andieallison6792
@andieallison6792 Жыл бұрын
I was GUTTED when I saw that KZbin removed the other video essay about Come and See ("The Scariest Film Ever Made ISN'T A Horror Film"). Thank you for this; more people need to know about this movie!
@lisazkc256
@lisazkc256 Жыл бұрын
They removed that video? Wow, I have no words... Why would they even remove it, what is wrong with them?
@dejeffmcbob
@dejeffmcbob Жыл бұрын
@@lisazkc256 The creator removed the video and deleted their channel. There was an attempt to reupload it but the creator asked them to remove it and they respected the request. While I doubt he wants people to find the video, I was able to find it on the internet archives which if you want to, you can find it.
@dejiadeleye5697
@dejiadeleye5697 Жыл бұрын
Until this video, I didn’t even realize that shot of the girl standing as Flyora passes by was a split diopter. I just thought he simply walked past her
@TheCatThatNobodyKnow
@TheCatThatNobodyKnow Жыл бұрын
When I finished this film I didn't fully cry I just completely disassociated and felt nothing for 24 hours.
@justanothermortal1373
@justanothermortal1373 Жыл бұрын
I watched this when I was 14. There are so many scenes engraved in my head as fresh as I first saw it. I loved this movie because it was for the first time I've seen war being portrayed for the raw trauma that it is. I probably won't watch it again.
@chrisquinlan6527
@chrisquinlan6527 Жыл бұрын
Come And See is an astounding piece of art. A difficult but worthwhile watch.
@TheMiraculousVillain
@TheMiraculousVillain 3 ай бұрын
I love that once the movie gets going, it never lets up on the terror, making it one of the scariest descents into hell ever
@joshuadelgado1286
@joshuadelgado1286 9 ай бұрын
People need to know more about this movie. It’s absolutely incredible. You finish the movie knowing the evil truth of people.
@nicolebogda1482
@nicolebogda1482 Жыл бұрын
Dear gawd, the WORK on this film! I have friends who had survived this war from both sides who were not participants but…survivors. I can only be grateful they never saw this or it perhaps would have triggered the trauma rather than what they recalled in their last days. Highly recommend no one who has survived this time see this film- however I feel anyone who has not survived such atrocities in war & life? Really should see this until they understand the reality of TRUE horror… ty for this video. ❤
@seileen1234
@seileen1234 Жыл бұрын
This i think is the true anti-war film. Never ever have i see the everyday evil of WW2 portayed like that, feels like looking at a raw footage of some truly horrorific moments.
@nja0528
@nja0528 Жыл бұрын
컴 앤 씨는 너무나 보기 힘들고 괴롭지만 영화를 사랑한다면 반드시 봐야하는 영화입니다.
@ДзмітрыйЯкаўлеў
@ДзмітрыйЯкаўлеў Жыл бұрын
My great grandfather was a teen in Belarus when the war started, so he joined partisans too. He was the one to bury weapons in the field to hide it from germans. One day germans captured his friend, tortured him so the friend had to give them my grandpa's name. The found him and commanded to dig all the weapons he buried or he'll get shot. Unfortunately enough he forgot where he buried the last gun but found it after hours of digging around under germans' gun. Close to end of the war he helped to move stuff for partisans with his horse, but when they reached frontline they took away his horse so my grandpa was left alone with no means to return to his village. War ended and he was going around villages to offer his work and woul dcarve spoons and plates for people, but they weren't always nice to him because everybody had barely any food and money for themselves and poor orphans weren't really well liked at that time. He returned home and got family in the end and good job, the village still remembers him dearly. That's not the only war story i have in the family, there are many and they are all unique and equally tragic. To watch this movie is double hard when u actually see ur people on screen and u know that ur family went through it too. I feel it in my blood almost, their struggles will be always part of my genetic memory.
@carlpanzram7081
@carlpanzram7081 Жыл бұрын
Great story. Your home country has seen some horrific violence. Maybe it helps you that this is not exclusive to your people, litteraly every country has seen unimaginable violence in their history. Brutal war has been the norm for most of humanities history, and we all have the potential for it in our dna. No matter where you look, humans have been excruciatingly cruel to each other. We are living in the better times now my friend.
@anthonymyers4516
@anthonymyers4516 Жыл бұрын
I've been trying to put people onto this movie and Stalingrad. Both some of my favorite war films. Amazing to see somewhat reboot-like films coming out nowadays. As always, stay up, stay positive.
@bobdollaz3391
@bobdollaz3391 Жыл бұрын
Those and "Men behind the sun" , about unit 731
@brasa8517
@brasa8517 Жыл бұрын
Waiting for you to make one about all quiet on the western front, still traumatized by the movie, the soundtrack was godly
@ЕгогошкаКраснодарский
@ЕгогошкаКраснодарский 7 ай бұрын
This is the scariest movie I've watched in my entire life. When I have to give an example of the most emotional film, I will give it. 10/10. I cannot say the optimal age for a person to become familiar with it. I watched it as a teenager and the film made an impression on me that I have never experienced before or since. It's always tears, always horror, always numbness. I have never seen anything heavier.
@nicolelawless9942
@nicolelawless9942 6 ай бұрын
I actually had nightmares just minutes after watching it and the last 35 minutes were something else. The last 35 minutes of me and Floyra separating was heart wrenching because Floyra wanted me and him to be together for slightly longer but him accepting my fate was the worst feeling he had experienced but I sacrificed my own life to make sure Floyra went back to the war. It was just too emotional watching Floyra accepting I was no longer here and I cried watching the movie a second time
@ElHombreGato
@ElHombreGato Жыл бұрын
Ugh.... beautifully said..... I've never been moved by a film review before in my life... until now. You're a true artist
@Jay-nz2do
@Jay-nz2do Жыл бұрын
To me the comment about not digging the gun alludes to flyora's desire to participate in the war, that he seeked it and found it
@carlpanzram7081
@carlpanzram7081 Жыл бұрын
That's a great insight. It makes great sense as a metaphor, because digging is litteraly uncovering something previously unknown, and a gun is a symbol of war. His uncle warned him to not find out what war means. The Film is called "come and see", which is the opposite of what his uncle said. Well done.
@Martinmd12-zt7vu
@Martinmd12-zt7vu Жыл бұрын
One of the most powerful films on human evil ever made.
@mikakishimori8856
@mikakishimori8856 Жыл бұрын
"Come and see" and "Deer hunter" are both movies that you cannot stop thinking of right after you finish watching it...
@reorioOrion
@reorioOrion Жыл бұрын
See also "Ascent" (1976) directed by Larisa Shepitko. This is the wife of Elem Klimov. "Ascent" is also a film about the war, about difficult choices, about the characters of people. It is considered as iconic as "Come and See" А very heavy film.
@daisycasey9077
@daisycasey9077 Жыл бұрын
i remember when i first watched this i had no idea what i was in for and i just remember power sobbing during the first scene you highlight. even now just seeing her face is agonizing. there's no movie like Come and See
@longiytsin1318
@longiytsin1318 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your review. It is great to learn about movies which aren’t in pop culture.
@drapedup76
@drapedup76 Жыл бұрын
This movie festered in my mind for about two weeks afterwards, finally I had seen a small glimpse of the true horror on WWll
@The_VanDal
@The_VanDal 9 ай бұрын
I think the scene that got me the most is after the german commander or whatever looks through the barn's window and goes "climb up here and you're free, but leave the children behind". A woman goes to climb with her baby, only for a soldier to grab the baby by the leg and just toss it back inside the barn like it's some piece of garbage. That moment in particular stayed with me. The entire scene at the barn is just pure nightmare fuel, and god, Fiora's face throughout all of it
@goldbullet50
@goldbullet50 Жыл бұрын
What a coincidence. I was just watching your video about "Irréversible", and that reminded me of another disturbing film "Come and See", which I remember seeing an analysis on KZbin years ago. Turns out you had made one yourself this very day :D
@oryjen
@oryjen Жыл бұрын
Most realistic and dark poetical movie about war I ever saw. This is way more than cinema. This is metaphysics.
@Leguinan
@Leguinan Жыл бұрын
I watched this movie in a cinema festival in the 80's. I was in my late teens. I still remember how the audience was silent after the final scene, and how people did not leave the theatre immediately. This movie leaves you in shock, but also drives into your head a deep sense of respect. You are not supposed to applaud, or rush out of theatre chatting. I heard that other people had the same experience. It is not hollywood, action, good/bad, heroes and fun, it is a deep work of art that has an utter respect for people, for pain, for the dead and the ones who survive.
@EthanWane
@EthanWane 6 ай бұрын
They didn't split that shot with a lens trick, it's done by crudely comping and cutting out the film, akin to what was often done in starwars. The two ARE facing each other, the final shot is showing her perspective (his back) and her dead reaction to watching him walk away. She's given up looking for help, and he's given up trying to be the help
@thegreatmarondraith8741
@thegreatmarondraith8741 Жыл бұрын
I never heard of this movie before but I really wanna see it now. I can't believe it's from 1985! It reminds me of Son of Saul, another movie that takes place during this time. If you haven't done a video on Son of Saul, I implore you to do so! Legendary stuff, man ❤
@thegreatmarondraith8741
@thegreatmarondraith8741 Жыл бұрын
Though I have yet to see this one, I think Son of Saul is actually more disturbing
@Sixstringman
@Sixstringman Жыл бұрын
Most of the best movies were made in the 80's when cocaine ruled the world.
@Brucer42O
@Brucer42O Жыл бұрын
I think the entire movie is/was on youtube
@jostpolc3858
@jostpolc3858 Жыл бұрын
I have seen a lot of war and anti-war films, dramas, horror films of all genres and from all over the world, but I have never seen such an ominous, shocking and terrifying film before and never since. It shows what war really is, something worse than hell itself.
@drunkvax
@drunkvax Жыл бұрын
It’s crazy how severely underrated this movie is
@bentob1ox
@bentob1ox Жыл бұрын
Overrated if anything
@gnas1897
@gnas1897 Жыл бұрын
​@@bentob1ox barely anyone outside of the former USSR knows about it.
@bentob1ox
@bentob1ox Жыл бұрын
It’s on the top 100 of imdb
@gnas1897
@gnas1897 Жыл бұрын
@@bentob1ox should be in the top 5
@chenking7446
@chenking7446 11 ай бұрын
I always love your movie commentaries because the way you structure your videos, your speech and your commentary feel like an hommage, a poem to celebrate the craft of the piece, and it ties it all very well together and makes it even more impactful
@meowwstr
@meowwstr Жыл бұрын
I remember thay showed us this film at school and it was one of the most traumatizing experience I've ever had like WHO'S IDEA IT WAS WE'RE MIDSCHOOLERS
@gnas1897
@gnas1897 Жыл бұрын
I bet your school never had a problem with neo Nazis after that
@I_am_drowning_in_my_own_mind
@I_am_drowning_in_my_own_mind 10 ай бұрын
For a background on that girl, after the Germans burnt her entire village, they said if you give us the children will let you go her being a child, the past her through the window with a small child, maybe four years old maybe younger they threw the four-year-old back through the window while she was clinging to him, crying and screaming and then they threw a grenade through the window. It didn’t kill everyone then they started shooting at the barn, and then they hit it with flamethrowers after the flame throwers the screaming eventually died down. They dragged her by her hair and then pulled her into the back of a truck while other men were trying to grab her out of the truck, not trying to save her. The people in the truck kicked the other people off, it was disgusting
@meheheomg
@meheheomg Жыл бұрын
Одно только видео травму наносит с первых секунд, не знаю как смогу фильм посмотреть. Да и вообще странно, что никогда о нем не слышала... Спасибо за анализ
@nahidaxnilou
@nahidaxnilou Жыл бұрын
очень тяжелый фильм, но к просмотру обязателен когда вышел его показывали в школах, насколько я знаю
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