Come and See | Creating The Most Disturbing Film

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  • Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
  • Elem Klimov's 'Come and See' is widely known as one of the most terrifying films ever made. But what exactly makes it such a haunting film? Why does this film affect us the way it does, and is it really just another scary non-horror film?
    I talked about Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 'Cure' before on my channel; like 'Cure', 'Come and See' is not just another disturbing film. It is a beautifully crafted work of art, and deserves a much better position than a subsidiary of shock cinema.
    So let's dive into the wonderfully twisted world of 'Come and See' and really, see what it is all about.
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    Timestamp
    0:00 The Scene
    1:25 Split Diopter & Sound
    3:35 Splitting the Film
    4:15 The Sound
    8:23 The Color & Camera
    10:58 The Portrait Shot
    12:30 Theatricality
    13:28 Smile
    15:55 Thank you
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  • @SpikimaMovies
    @SpikimaMovies  Рік тому +356

    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 Рік тому +8

      My 2 favorite 'disturbing non-horror film'
      1) Shock Corridor (1963)
      2) Tesis (1996) by Alejandro Amenabar

    • @sadponyguerrillagirl_-
      @sadponyguerrillagirl_- Рік тому +6

      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 Рік тому +19

      Rise of skywalker is the most disturbing movie I ever seen.
      It’s disturbing people got paid to make it :/

    • @gemonizam2469
      @gemonizam2469 Рік тому +4

      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 Рік тому +9

      Threads
      We Need to Talk About Kevin
      The Vanishing
      Man Bites Dog

  • @buttertool6211
    @buttertool6211 Рік тому +8674

    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 Рік тому +722

      The filmmaking equivalent of a mic drop

    • @MonTube2006
      @MonTube2006 Рік тому

      @@AD-dg3zz not quite. He sucks.

    • @k.o.h3599
      @k.o.h3599 Рік тому +13

      @@MonTube2006 ok n*zi.

    • @MonTube2006
      @MonTube2006 Рік тому

      @@k.o.h3599 get lost idiot 😆 I'm as much a naz* as Anne Frank was

    • @tallspartan117
      @tallspartan117 Рік тому +379

      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 Рік тому +6132

    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 Рік тому +229

      I think people who think this film isn't realistic are on some copium about the human condition.

    • @thesequeltoobama7030
      @thesequeltoobama7030 Рік тому +61

      @@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 Рік тому +7

      @@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 Рік тому +130

      @@ApeRiderr these depictions are not dramatized you would be shocked with what people do to each other

    • @ApeRiderr
      @ApeRiderr Рік тому +7

      @@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 Рік тому +5393

    I loved Come and See, it's absolutely dreadful and I never wanna watch it again. 10/10

    • @VIK_1903
      @VIK_1903 Рік тому +84

      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 Рік тому +35

      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 Рік тому +145

      @@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 Рік тому +36

      @@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 Рік тому +1

      Same

  • @Realsagarbhat
    @Realsagarbhat Рік тому +3238

    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.

  • @ImYourOnlyItGirl
    @ImYourOnlyItGirl Рік тому +3017

    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 Рік тому +23

      Well said.

    • @who1285
      @who1285 Рік тому +71

      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 Рік тому +1

      Beautiful comment. Love it. Thank you.❤

    • @T1tusCr0w
      @T1tusCr0w Рік тому +6

      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 Рік тому

      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 Рік тому +997

    'Come and see' made me realise how we often fantasize war in modern movies. 10/10, wouldn't recommend.

    • @spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272
      @spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272 Рік тому +24

      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 19 днів тому +2

      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

  • @AirForceFalcons_9922
    @AirForceFalcons_9922 Рік тому +2475

    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 Рік тому +99

      He did not age they put makeup on him to make him look older

    • @steveyuhas9278
      @steveyuhas9278 10 місяців тому +211

      ​@@alexandermunguia5873Not to be pedantic, but TECHNICALLY he did age 😉. Sorry, I'll see myself out.

    • @ulyanak.1596
      @ulyanak.1596 10 місяців тому +40

      defintely not agreat actor as an adult, just a regular russian propaganda lover

    • @helloworld-ti5zs
      @helloworld-ti5zs 10 місяців тому +7

      Find a movie "Star" . He is there. A Soviet soldier. A good war movie.

    • @JoshuaAndres
      @JoshuaAndres 9 місяців тому +1

      What’s his name?

  • @PopTartNeko
    @PopTartNeko Рік тому +1529

    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 Рік тому +58

      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 Рік тому +89

      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 Рік тому +81

      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 Рік тому +28

      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 Рік тому +14

      It's brutal because it feels like real WW2 footage of a mass grave.

  • @aleksandr2245
    @aleksandr2245 Рік тому +540

    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

  • @sample.text.
    @sample.text. Рік тому +603

    Some movies are so good you can only watch them once.

    • @sixteenstringjack
      @sixteenstringjack Рік тому +34

      Yes, I can't watch this again, but I'll never forget it

    • @sixteenstringjack
      @sixteenstringjack Рік тому +5

      @@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 10 місяців тому

      That’s how I feel about “Saving Private Ryan”. I can’t watch this one once though, so learning about it through UA-cam

    • @sandym2502
      @sandym2502 9 місяців тому

      @@sixteenstringjackhumanity is sick. Hate them. All.

    • @StrongandConditioned
      @StrongandConditioned 9 місяців тому

      Such a profound comment. Totally agree

  • @0wlet290
    @0wlet290 Рік тому +1418

    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 Рік тому +47

      Holy shit I didn’t even realize that.

    • @victoriashelly5115
      @victoriashelly5115 Рік тому +22

      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 Рік тому

      @@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 Рік тому +97

      @@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 Рік тому +6

      I didn't even notice Lacrimosa was used. Damn, they thought of everything.

  • @boRalto
    @boRalto Рік тому +508

    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 Рік тому +4

      So true

    • @UnkleKnuck
      @UnkleKnuck Рік тому +13

      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 7 місяців тому +1

      👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👍

    • @wachimol
      @wachimol 5 місяців тому +5

      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 16 днів тому

      A coping mechanism. Many Vietnam vets are reported during and after the war to mask their emotion with hopelessly funny jokes.

  • @justinholtman
    @justinholtman Рік тому +1008

    One of the best movie commentary critic channels on UA-cam. Criminally underrated.

    • @shinjukucalling763
      @shinjukucalling763 Рік тому +4

      the best and it's not close

    • @rageagainstmyhairline5574
      @rageagainstmyhairline5574 Рік тому +6

      @@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 Рік тому

      @@rageagainstmyhairline5574 yeah I actually just found Thomas not too long ago he’s really good too

  • @typhoonthunder
    @typhoonthunder Рік тому +859

    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 Рік тому +15

      They were used to worse depravities under the Bolsheviks

    • @what-uy7go
      @what-uy7go Рік тому

      @@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 Рік тому +97

      @@bobdollaz3391 it’s not a competition!

    • @chilichinashop
      @chilichinashop Рік тому

      @@bobdollaz3391 hush nazi sympathizer 🤫🤐

    • @thedreamscripter4002
      @thedreamscripter4002 Рік тому

      @@bobdollaz3391 Another stupid lie from "Black book of communism"

  • @89Awww
    @89Awww Рік тому +301

    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 10 місяців тому +37

      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 4 місяці тому

      ofc he wasnt a professional he made orders to murder a cow and mishandle animals

    • @veggiedisease123
      @veggiedisease123 Місяць тому +1

      @@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 Місяць тому

      @@veggiedisease123 I agree. And no, I haven't a clue what became of her, but she gave a shattering performance

  • @dayofthelords8371
    @dayofthelords8371 Рік тому +500

    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 9 місяців тому +10

      This movie is absolutely relentless. No comic relief, no real cheers, no happy ending, just the reality of the true hell of war.

  • @blacknapalm2131
    @blacknapalm2131 Рік тому +307

    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 Рік тому +75

      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 11 місяців тому +5

      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 5 місяців тому +8

      @@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 3 місяці тому +5

      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 3 місяці тому +7

      It was meant to illustrate that he considered the life of an animal more valuable than that of one if " these " humans.

  • @neilpemberton5523
    @neilpemberton5523 Рік тому +115

    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.

  • @BrownSugar98
    @BrownSugar98 Рік тому +126

    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.

  • @paulagarcia3564
    @paulagarcia3564 Рік тому +201

    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 10 місяців тому +23

      Kinda makes sense with the emphasis on the faces in the movie. Like the faces are what he remembers most vividly.

  • @adeimousragnarok8150
    @adeimousragnarok8150 Рік тому +921

    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 Рік тому +30

      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 Рік тому +1

      How about this movie then? ua-cam.com/video/X_RSDqBn0bA/v-deo.html 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 Рік тому +57

      @@OneLifeJunkJackfound the Nazi apologist ⬆️

    • @OneLifeJunkJack
      @OneLifeJunkJack Рік тому +5

      @@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 Рік тому +13

      @@OneLifeJunkJack “I’m not a Nazi apologist, I just think other people were worse then Nazis”
      - you, apparently

  • @belkaletto
    @belkaletto Рік тому +98

    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.

  • @hekates-ladder
    @hekates-ladder 6 місяців тому +28

    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.

  • @zmaleki2906
    @zmaleki2906 Рік тому +1087

    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.

  • @g.rathbone764
    @g.rathbone764 11 місяців тому +114

    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.

  • @CaseyReviews
    @CaseyReviews Рік тому +82

    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 9 місяців тому +11

      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

  • @HectorVII
    @HectorVII 7 місяців тому +25

    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

  • @blueblood8658
    @blueblood8658 Рік тому +52

    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 😅😌

  • @cynthiaz2412
    @cynthiaz2412 Рік тому +218

    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  Рік тому +21

      Thank you for such a thorough and meaningful review of my review!

    • @user-ih8sz7ps9c
      @user-ih8sz7ps9c 3 місяці тому +1

      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.

  • @UltimateFalk
    @UltimateFalk Рік тому +50

    The perfection of every facial expression portrait in this film had me absolutely floored

  • @codemanthe2nd343
    @codemanthe2nd343 Рік тому +43

    The portrait shots make me uncomfortable, the ways the actors look into the camera are haunting.

  • @justanothermortal1373
    @justanothermortal1373 Рік тому +75

    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.

  • @ivan00001983
    @ivan00001983 Рік тому +117

    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 9 місяців тому +24

      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 8 місяців тому +8

      @@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 7 місяців тому +11

      @@EggwardEgghands I mean thats out of scope of what the movie is.. but you are not wrong.

    • @EggwardEgghands
      @EggwardEgghands 7 місяців тому +2

      @@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 6 місяців тому

      @@EggwardEgghands Straight up Nazi apologia coming from you.

  • @eclipssezz
    @eclipssezz Рік тому +58

    As a photographer the shots in the movie are the most satisfying I've ever seen, it's so well shot it seems like they have idea what they're doing literally any frame. As much as I agree for example Cyberpunk 2077 etc. have 'better looking' scenes with beautiful lighting of neon lights and high technology, this right here, seems so much more emotionally investing than just that.
    Every shot represents an emotion we should feel, and we feel very much that, which is how you know it's very good.

  • @TheErinlw
    @TheErinlw 8 місяців тому +13

    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.

  • @Gleamorous
    @Gleamorous 5 місяців тому +11

    that devoid look in the young boys eyes is absolutely haunting in every single scene.

  • @weeeeeeraaaaaa
    @weeeeeeraaaaaa Рік тому +33

    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!

  • @amirsinak
    @amirsinak Рік тому +29

    When I watched this movie for first time I was holding a slice of pizza in my hand for 45 min

    • @nicolelawless9942
      @nicolelawless9942 3 місяці тому +1

      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

  • @arseniilistopad2895
    @arseniilistopad2895 Рік тому +49

    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 8 місяців тому +1

      English Film "Threads" - only once

  • @burger5381
    @burger5381 Рік тому +79

    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 Рік тому +16

      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.

  • @LadyAstarionAncunin
    @LadyAstarionAncunin Рік тому +110

    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 Рік тому +3

      That's a great idea but too intense for many people

  • @the_bane_of_all_anti_furry
    @the_bane_of_all_anti_furry Рік тому +11

    one tragedy of war is how there are people to eager to bring much human suffering under the guise of "glory,honour,hatred"

  • @Jimmy1982Playlists
    @Jimmy1982Playlists Рік тому +151

    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 Рік тому +27

      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.

  • @pepperpattynaise
    @pepperpattynaise Рік тому +83

    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!

  • @Squidward558
    @Squidward558 Рік тому +39

    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.

  • @dylancarr8415
    @dylancarr8415 10 місяців тому +13

    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.

  • @phaedrus4931
    @phaedrus4931 Рік тому +28

    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 Рік тому +52

    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 :)

  • @jaewon4316
    @jaewon4316 Рік тому +45

    absolutely amazing video essay. i watched this recently and this was just what i wanted! gosh i’m scarred.

  • @SixBeark
    @SixBeark Рік тому +17

    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!

  • @pseudotsugame
    @pseudotsugame Рік тому +6

    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

  • @itsmethedood
    @itsmethedood Рік тому +14

    Thank you for the thoughts and efforts Spikima

  • @Flavio_Mark
    @Flavio_Mark 6 місяців тому +11

    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.

  • @chenking7446
    @chenking7446 8 місяців тому

    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

  • @AKA-corne
    @AKA-corne Рік тому +61

    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 8 місяців тому

      i get hate as well

    • @neyadob
      @neyadob 7 місяців тому +8

      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 2 місяці тому +3

      @@neyadob Classic men moment

    • @nimbus2490
      @nimbus2490 Місяць тому

      @@lottavuorinen Lol

    • @aleahcim24
      @aleahcim24 19 днів тому +1

      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.

  • @OhYahDude
    @OhYahDude 6 місяців тому +4

    "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

  • @rabbitss11
    @rabbitss11 Рік тому +8

    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

  • @RoshDroz
    @RoshDroz Рік тому +1

    You seriously make the most insightful film analysis vids on all UA-cam. Love seeing a new upload every time

  • @olgaglera1097
    @olgaglera1097 Рік тому +19

    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.

    • @user-ih8sz7ps9c
      @user-ih8sz7ps9c 3 місяці тому

      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.

  • @croatoansounds
    @croatoansounds Рік тому +8

    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

  • @Autistic_Cl0wn
    @Autistic_Cl0wn Рік тому +71

    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 9 місяців тому +15

      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 7 місяців тому +8

      agreed, it also seems to show in the way she walks in that scene...

    • @Autistic_Cl0wn
      @Autistic_Cl0wn 7 місяців тому +1

      @@dunngyllite7883 Yes, absolutely.

    • @NuSuntSerb
      @NuSuntSerb 7 місяців тому

      @@dunngyllite7883 the blood is biggest give away

    • @leehalloway8787
      @leehalloway8787 3 місяці тому

      ​@@dunngyllite7883 Judging by where the blood was coming from, it definitely seems so.

  • @peace4myheart
    @peace4myheart Рік тому +2

    Always a joy to watch your videos. I feel like I'm watching a masterclass in cinema with each and every release.

  • @kayrakarabal8849
    @kayrakarabal8849 9 місяців тому +1

    this is no doubt the best video essay ive ever watched, impeccable work

  • @ryanhodor1833
    @ryanhodor1833 Рік тому +10

    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.

  • @CaseyMeeko
    @CaseyMeeko Рік тому +68

    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 Рік тому

      @@violettray2679 '''''unprovoked'''''' stop watching CNN and BBC

    • @bellaraizel8549
      @bellaraizel8549 Рік тому +1

      @@violettray2679 *putin's war

    • @ItsTristan1st
      @ItsTristan1st 9 місяців тому +1

      @@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 7 місяців тому

      ​​@@ItsTristan1stthere were lots of russians and belorussians. That's how collaborationism works. Not only ukrainians. So shut your mouth. And germans too.

    • @michaelistoma8356
      @michaelistoma8356 7 місяців тому

      ​​@@ItsTristan1stthe war in Ukraine started because putin want to rebuild ussr and keep his power. That's all.

  • @R1ngbanana
    @R1ngbanana Рік тому

    Thank you for having captions!! Great video

  • @ElHombreGato
    @ElHombreGato Рік тому +1

    Ugh.... beautifully said..... I've never been moved by a film review before in my life... until now. You're a true artist

  • @longiytsin1318
    @longiytsin1318 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for your review. It is great to learn about movies which aren’t in pop culture.

  • @TheCatThatNobodyKnow
    @TheCatThatNobodyKnow Рік тому +8

    When I finished this film I didn't fully cry I just completely disassociated and felt nothing for 24 hours.

  • @milan-px5uq
    @milan-px5uq Рік тому +1

    I am so happy to have come across this channel, great stuff

  • @neptuniite
    @neptuniite 11 місяців тому +1

    This was such a remarkably intelligent and comprehensive analysis. Well done!

  • @SickTwistedQueen
    @SickTwistedQueen Рік тому +30

    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.

  • @adamgardiner5869
    @adamgardiner5869 Рік тому +12

    If ever I wanted to convince someone of the value of film critics I'd simply show them this channel. Simply brilliant analysis.

  • @50Street21
    @50Street21 5 місяців тому

    Your commentary was mesmerizingly captivating. Absolutely brilliant.

  • @northernzeus768
    @northernzeus768 Рік тому +1

    ThAnkyou for the in depth commentary on one of my very favorite movies of all time. Haunting and brilliant is this masterpiece.
    Liked and subbed. 😊👍

  • @goldbullet50
    @goldbullet50 Рік тому +5

    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 UA-cam years ago. Turns out you had made one yourself this very day :D

  • @chrisquinlan6527
    @chrisquinlan6527 Рік тому +5

    Come And See is an astounding piece of art. A difficult but worthwhile watch.

  • @lautiTPAO
    @lautiTPAO Рік тому

    Man, your analysis are something else! Such a good channel

  • @smooches-the-deathmetal-bunny
    @smooches-the-deathmetal-bunny 11 місяців тому

    i constantly binge horror analysis to learn and get ideas for music that i make. not topic ideas, but on how to write it. your videos are my biggest resource.

  • @knotz909
    @knotz909 Рік тому +4

    i watched this movie after seeing your review and man, It moved me beyond any words. i repeated several scenes often just to absorb what the heck is going on, because i will likely not watch it again by myself xD

  • @nja0528
    @nja0528 Рік тому +22

    컴 앤 씨는 너무나 보기 힘들고 괴롭지만 영화를 사랑한다면 반드시 봐야하는 영화입니다.

  • @armstrongslastnut2532
    @armstrongslastnut2532 9 місяців тому

    Holy crap dude. This is the 3rd video of yours that I've seen and I am thoroughly blown away with your analysis of films and skills in presentation.

  • @brasa8517
    @brasa8517 Рік тому +13

    Waiting for you to make one about all quiet on the western front, still traumatized by the movie, the soundtrack was godly

  • @daisycasey9077
    @daisycasey9077 Рік тому +3

    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

  • @enduroian
    @enduroian Рік тому +1

    the information on that special camera lens at the beginning is so cool. Ill have to look out for that now! (i hate to be that guy who comments on the first two minutes of the video) i love technical-speak. well done video, can tell you really know your stuff

  • @christopheratkins9677
    @christopheratkins9677 Рік тому

    Brilliant work. Well done...again!!!

  • @anthonymyers4516
    @anthonymyers4516 Рік тому +7

    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 Рік тому +2

      Those and "Men behind the sun" , about unit 731

  • @reorioOrion
    @reorioOrion Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @CersVenk
    @CersVenk Рік тому

    always good to see someone talk about stuff in cinema and use what they talk about

  • @jasonm.8174
    @jasonm.8174 2 місяці тому

    Holy heck this is some of the best and most astute film commentary Ive seen here on the tube. I am def subscribing

  • @haseulibae7083
    @haseulibae7083 Рік тому +6

    This is one of those movies that I will only be able to watch once. I'm glad I did, because it's a work of art, but never again. It's completely horrific.

  • @viktoriaf.1191
    @viktoriaf.1191 Рік тому +14

    I can watch scary movies. I can watch disturbing movies. Ya they’re gross or scary or just plain weird but I can stomach them. But this movie. I had to watch it in 2 parts because it was just so much death, sadness and disparity and my favorite movie is requiem for a dream. This movie is a movie that I am so glad I watched because it opened my eyes to the reality of war and how devastating it can. I mean I already knew that but watching this and seeing what happens to that poor girl with the whistle and why she had the blood. It’s just so Heartbreaking. This is a movie that I am so happy that I watched and became more educated on the subject but I will never ever watch again. It is burned in my brain and I’ll never forget it.

  • @sepiarain
    @sepiarain Рік тому

    I wish the algorithm would give me more of your work. This film is one of the greatest, this video essay has A-Level film studies feels. Image and representation. Which is awesome! Because it's the key tools for understanding what we enjoy, or in this case appreciating what is causing us this trauma and harm. A beautifully intense and complex film. Thank you for the equally lovely essay.

  • @i.o.inoagenta
    @i.o.inoagenta Рік тому

    outstanding work! thank you

  • @zoejpg8102
    @zoejpg8102 Рік тому +4

    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.

  • @jonjahr3403
    @jonjahr3403 5 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @bloodsalt
    @bloodsalt Рік тому

    Fantastic video study of the film - thank you for making this

  • @amyyoung2804
    @amyyoung2804 Рік тому

    Thank you so much! I have thoight about seeing this film but now I feel I must experience this albeit difficult vision of a horrific time in history. War is all so personal as well. Thanks again

  • @joshuadelgado1286
    @joshuadelgado1286 6 місяців тому +4

    People need to know more about this movie. It’s absolutely incredible. You finish the movie knowing the evil truth of people.