Mr. Jones - Movie Review - (No Spoilers)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Mr. Jones is directed by Agnieszka Holland and stars James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, and Peter Sarsgaard - www.imdb.com/t...
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The Holodomor is almost unknown in the West but the Ukrainians remember.
I remember and I am from the West because I made it a point to study about it.
It's a damn shame it's never talked about.
History repeats itself.
I'm a US citizen helping spread this truth to people I know years later. The millions need to be honored and remembered.
Perhaps I am too close to the story to be a good judge, but I find it important in that it helps those in the West understand a part of history that they barely, if even, knew. I am an American/Dutch journalist and have lived and traveled all over Russia. I have lived and traveled all over Ukraine (still have a home there). So much of this story is based on reality that it hurt. My wife is a native Ukrainian and each Sunday I sing in the choir of an Orthodox Church (Ukrainian Orthodox) and so many of the older people in our parish either have scars from childhood memories of that time, or their parents and grandparents suffered during one of the three major famines of that period. I urge visitors to Kyiv to visit the Holodomor museum. It is both outdoor and indoor and as you approach the entrance there is a statue, named the "Bitter Memory of Childhood" depicting a young starving girl clutching a few strands of wheat. In summer it is the tradition of visitors to leave apples at her feet, as if to offer her something to eat. In winter visitors place flowers around her ankles as if to protect her bare feet from the cold.
Who else is watching this after the recent invasion?
Hunger and cold...
Are in our house...
Nothing to eat...
Nowhere to sleep...
Haunting.
Average Russians? I don't think there were any in the film. The countryside part of the story happens in Ukraine and the people there are Ukrainians, not Russians. You know there's a difference, right?
I could've worded that differently, sure, and said the average citizen of some parts of the Soviet Union - you are correct. And yes as a Finn I'm familiar with the concept of a country and a people being occupied by another - specifically Russia - so there's no need to be condescending, my friend :)
Saying "average Russians" is not only incorrect, as @adam sewastianowicz points out, it misses the point entirely, because the famine in Soviet Ukraine was manmade, targeted exactly by the Russians (or incl. Russophone Soviets such as Stalin, if you prefer) against the Ukrainians. It was vicious, covert, denied, and part of an overall deliberate rapacious genocidal strategy of the marauding Muscovite empire that simultaneously hated the existence of the elder Rus-Ukrainian culture and sought to appropriate its history and material legacy (land, historical treasures, and cultural accomplishments) for itself. Given your country's history with such a neighbour, @notyourdad, I'm surprised you would let slip such an inaccuracy...
A very strong powerful movie...and true.
The movie shows exactly what happened to Ukraine during those times. Hard to watch, no happy end, no conclusions from the West. Even now it is not yet ended!
The story is so rough, so complicated that it is really hard to understand for someone who has limited knowledge about Ukrainian history.
The film is a great attempt to explain the truth about Holodomor.
I agree. The Ukraina section was very good, but rest of the movie was just mediocre.
Hi Dad, so I actually liked it a lot. The acting was great. I would give it a 7 out of 10. Send my regards to mom.
I will.
You reviewed the movie well. But would you say you'd recommend it for people that don't know of this tragedy so they can be informed of a very important event in history?
I would recommend it for anyone and everyone. It was a slow burn, but a great movie.
Great review, be interesting to know if that section of film that was great was shot first and later changes were made.
I don't know, couldn't find any information on it.
An excellent movie. Saw it twice. The character Mr. Jones is a little naive to think there would not be some retribution against speaking the truth about what really was going on in the great Holodomor. Reality at its extreme bites in parts where people suffering (cold and hungry) is quite unimaginable. A story that had to be told.