surprised you didnt mention how much the movie was about childhood innocence. when he shoots the picture of hitler, he stops when the footage of hitler gets to a baby, saying that baby hitler was innocent because all children are.
@@dolsopolardont be mean😂 Ive showed this to so many people and people always ask why he stopped shooting😂😂😂😂 Apparantly its not so obvious as I thought too
Come and See was one of those films I always tried to forget about after watching because of how much I was not the same person after viewing it, but this video reminds me of how much of a haunting and devastating masterpiece it is. Really great and well put-together video essay, it was all super cohesive and concise!
Yeah I watched it once about 15-20 years ago and never again. It had quite an impact. I do think everyone should watch it at least once though, it's an important film, an important reminder. I'm just.. not sure I'd want to "inflict" it on anyone? If that makes sense. Hard to explain.
I agree it truly hurt my spirit and cut deep. It's the most moving war picture I've ever seen. I want everybody to see it but at the same time it's so painful I almost feel guilty in causing them to feel pain by seeing it. It's the perfect War movie because war truely is hell. No glory just misery.
For me, that was We Were Soldiers. It just opened my eyes so much that we live our lives as we are, because of what they sacrificed. Greetings from down under 🇦🇺
This is by far one of the best video essays of this film that I've seen. The power of images and how they're presented and framed is so significant. You've earned a sub and derverse many more.
Reminds me of Call Of Duty World At War where they did the same thing with their loading screens. I don't know what disturbed me more, seeing the raw footage, or seeing it in the censored mode they had available where half the loading screens in game were dusted with pixel bars to obstruct the injured, dying, and dead. That game was unapologetically stark in trying to convey how effed war really is. Hell, even the main menu pulled no punches with "Brave Soldier, die with me" in the background. Absolute contrast to every other CoD since.
@@SilviaLikesCherries It feels as though integrity has been lost upon these art pieces of interact-able stories. Less meaning behind choices, and more of that for how the game feels while playing it, than how it conveys messages, tells a compelling story that makes *you* feel.
I mean, call of duty world at war didn't gloryfied anything,, if not the memory of the poor souls that died in the horrible cicumstances of war. It was a game made with the idea of make the player understand, somehow, how rude, disgusting, uncessary and useless war is. Is properly a videogame masterpiece, that can make you feel feelings like rage and sadness just looking at the details in the maps. That's what i think.
I saw this movie in Moscow when it was released, still feels like I can’t watch it completely again, I only see small fragments. When I came back to my home country Schindler’s list was released and the whole world went crazy on how harsh it was, I always kept my opinion to myself: you should watch this one and really understand the horror. Very nice essay, I have enjoyed all your videos, keep them coming! Subscribed!
You’re a fucking beast for making a straight to the point video essay. Most other people would’ve gone an hour or two having to describing the entire movie then spend 5:47 actually addressing the point of the video.
This movie is one of the best ways to ask the question "Would you kill baby Hitler?" On one hand, by doing so you prevent all the cruelty his regime caused (Tho probably not the war itself), on the other hand you perpetuate the very violence against innocents he was causing, because as a baby Hitler was still innocent.
Hitler foi só uma reação ao comunismo, não haveria Hitler sem Stálin. Dito isto, Stálin nada deve a Hitler em termos de sadismo e crueldade, a diferença é apenas que um lutou ao lado dos que ganharam e seus crimes foram "perdoados" ou pelo menos tirados de foco.
“If you a kill a killer the number of killers in the world stays the same” That logic can be very flawed cuz yes their innocent, but the amount of deaths caused by this “at the time” innocent baby in the future is such s heavy loaded situation. In that quote if you killed 1,000 killers that means you just got rid of 999, disproving that quote in its entirety
@@M1sc3 Hitler wasn't a reaction to communism, extremist ideologies are a reaction to poor socio-economic conditions. When poor socio-economic conditions occur, people begin to look for something to blame, and these targets are often minority groups, in the case of Nazis, being Jewish people. Extremist Communism developed for similar reasons, though blamed the system in which the world functions. Whether Communist existed or not, there would still be a Nazi party, but how different it would have looked is debatable. It is more accurate to say the Nazi party was a reaction to the treaty of Versailles, WW1, and the great depression.
This wasn’t just a movie… it was reality for years… many of these things occurred on the Eastern Front of WW2… imagine this movie happening, but again and again, and all over again.
Both sides had it at each other it wasn't the same as the western front after the war ended American and German troops were laughing together and sending prays but on the eastern front they were still fighting because of the war crimes endured on both sides.
I don’t need to see a movie that shows what happens to innocence. I have a picture of my uncle with my dad and his other siblings and how young he looked. Then I have a picture of after my uncle returned from the Pacific. He looked like an old man. Same with my aunts husbands.
The way you edit your videos and convey your points is really great. I no joke expected you to have like 1 mil subs. Keep at it and you'll grow for sure! I'll definitely have to watch more of your stuff 👍
Hello, everyone. I'm from Russia and I've seen this movie for the first time way back in 2019 when i was in college. Honestly, i dont know any other movie that would be as heavy for me as this one. Upon the first watch It had such horrifying impression on me, that i couldn't finish it. But, later, when i did - it left me feeling empty. Watching character's, even though fictional, pain, based off of real events, feels like a real pain of a real person. This movie doesn't hit with flashy effects or scenes of extreme gore, but the atmosphere, sound design, the tone, feeling of hopelessness - it all makes it feel like the worst nightmare, the end of old life through horror and pain. There's no other movie that could be as dead hitting as this one. And, to finish my long comment, i wouldn't recommend this movie to everyone. Its a raw, soul breaking, fleshed out movie that is not for the weak of heart.
Bro, I love your videos and wish you much success with your channel. I watch a lot of channels similar (fortunately not the same) and as an actor and looking to be a filmmaker you not only give perspective maybe not thought about but point out the importance of why something is happening. All useful in everything I do. Thank you. Cheers!
I saw the movie a few months ago. Here is my review I wrote earlier for anyone who is interested (spoilers obvs). Come and See' (1985) Review Come and See is a Soviet film from the year 1985. It was directed by Elem Klimov and the screenplay was written by Ales Adamovich. As children, Klimov had to flee Stalingrad on a boat across the Volga with his mother, while Adamovich's experience directly relates to the story of the film. The title comes from the Book of Revelation: “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, ‘Come and see.' And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.” The story is set in occupied Belarus during the Second World War. It begins on a sandy beach, where our young protagonist, Flyora, a 15 year old boy, together with another boy are digging up artefacts. They find an SVT-40 rifle, and Flyora keeps it. After this, partisans come to visit his house. They take him into the woods as a squire, where he meets Glasha, a girl of about the same age. They meet and form a connection, alternately crying and hysterically laughing over their circumstances. They enjoy their time in the woods together but a bombing attack and a German paratrooper drop scatters them. Flyora and Glasha return to Flyora's house, where an eerie quiet is all that is found. They are happy and glad to find a meal to eat, but wonder where his family and the others have gone. (The film becomes darker around here). On the way out of the village, Glasha notices a pile of bodies behind Flyora's house. The two of them break down hysterically and are found by a partisan, who takes them to his camp. An old man badly burnt blames Flyora for digging up the rifles and causing the events. At this point Flyora is given a mission, to tag along with a motley crew of partistans. Their job is to try and seize some food in a warehouse. They make a mock Hitler out of clay and put a grenade in it as a booby trap in an effort to ambush a German convoy, but everything goes badly wrong when mines suddenly detonate on the road. Flyora and the surviving partisan try to take a cow back from a village as food, but along the way the partisan and cow are killed by machine gun fire. When Flyora awakes from sleeping, he meets a peasant, and then the Germans arrive in large numbers in trucks. The peasant takes him in and tells him to keep quiet. The Germans and their local collaborators round up everyone in the village and herd them into a large barn, with the promise they would be "sent to Germany for work". An SS officer tells them in Russian that they can leave the barn through a window if they leave their children behind. Flyora and a couple of others get out. The rest refuse. The Germans throw grenades and Molotov cocktails into the barn and then shoot at it until everything is silent. Flyora and a few others are spared for the amusement of the German troops. He staggers away and some hours later finds that the partisans have ambushed an SS convoy made up of some of the same troops. They gather round and the Germans and collaborators beg for mercy, which is not granted. Flyora, deeply traumatised by this point, now walks around under the bridge where the partisans are. He finds a portrait of Hitler, this portrait below, with the text reading "Hitler the Liberator". www.posterplakat.com/content/1-the-collection/posters/0-pp-284/PP284.jpg He fires his first shots of the film into Hitler's face as a surreal and chaotic montage of Nazi Germany and Hitler's life plays in reverse interspersed with his anger and shooting. The partisans call for him to keep up, and he follows them along. They walk off into the forest, and again in the next shot, as it turns to snow. I had heard a lot about this film and wanted to see it, being a WW2 history buff and a WW2 film buff, for quite some time. Some of you have probably heard of it as well. Its reputation precedes it as a brutally graphic depiction of the worst crimes of Nazi Germany, but the film is more than just that. I was expecting this part, of course, but all in all the violence does not take up most of the film, only portions. The thing I love most about this film is its surreal nature, and the way how close up expressions of Flyora and Glasha are constantly used to take the viewer out of the moment into a kind of dream-like state. Half of the film feels plainly realistic, and that half is mainly those parts which have more people in them, whereas in the scenes with Flyora and only a few others, the dream-like state is re-entered. Sound is used wonderfully to produce an ominous or a disturbing tone in certain scenes. Sometimes the sound is so subtle you can barely notice it, but it is there: a kind of unsettling rumbling barely perceptible in the background, or a ringing tone. All the audio and visuals come together to put the viewer not only in the location, but also with Flyora's mind, and his mental state, becoming more and more traumatised and less connected with reality throughout the film. The movie is not for the faint of heart, I warn you, but it is not excessively gory or sadistic compared to other war films. It never seems to revel or relish in the gore and atrocities but rather presents them as a backdrop of Flyora's journey through a broken world. On a purely visual level, the narrative towards the end leaves behind the streams and forests of earlier into a wasteland. The final scenes are taken up by burning flames and ruin all around mixed with the cheering and laughing of the German soldiers on their trucks, and then by a puddle in a muddy field in which Hitler's portrait is floating. Some of the scenes, particularly the one with Glasha dancing in the rain to imaginary swing music, are genuinely heart-warming. Still, it is not a happy film all in all, as you could probably tell. The end left me feeling neither very sad nor happy, simply empty in the same way as the devastation in the film. I thought the movie was brilliant, and a really unique piece of art, not only as an audio-visual, but also as a psychological experience. For anyone who has the stomach for this sort of thing, I very highly recommend it.
@@EricNapoli-z3d There were a number of things Soviet censors took issue with that delayed the movie: - The extreme graphic violence - The protagonist is not a hero but rather a victim who's constantly deteriorating from the circumstances. The Soviets preferred propagandistic pathos over bleak realism. Partisans were the object of such lionization. To depict them with any ambiguity is ballzy move in the USSR. - There is religious symbolism which censors weren't fond of.
Every war movie has a moral obligation to portray war in its truest form, not to romanticise and obfuscate the true horror and existential dread that is war.
Full Metal Jacket, Come and See, All Quiet on the western front, 1917 are movies that are unique even from each other, they all show how these respective wars were known to be, the crudeness of human evil and mind.
i cant be articulate for this this is truly beautiful an incredible work of art possibly one of the best video essays ive ever seen very incredibly emotion jesus christ keep making stuff
Фильм о зверствах карательных отрядов на территории Беларуси (БССР) , весна-лето-осень 1943 года. Карательных подразделений, таких как - 118-й батальон шуцманшафта (по большей части этнические украинцы, военнопленные Красной армии, сформирован в Киеве ), командовал немец Эрих Кернер и украинец Григорий Васюра. Особый батальон СС «Дирлевангер» (комплектовалось из заключённых немецких тюрем, концлагерей и военных тюрем СС и военнопленных Красной армии, более половины состава батальона советские граждане(русские, украинцы,белорусы), командовал немец - Оскар Дирлевангер. Эти немецкие подразделения действовали против гражданского населения и партизан на территории Беларуси (БССР). Мою пробабушку 12.05.1943 г. так же живьем спалили нацисты и фашисты в собственном доме, Беларусь, деревня Ганцевичи, Плещенский район, недалеко от печально известной деревни Хатынь, которую спалили вышеперечисленные карательные немецкие подразделения. Всего в деревне Ганцевичи сожгли и убили 130 мирных жителей , в основном женщины и дети. Мой дедушка, которому было 17 лет успел убежать из деревни и наблюдал за происходящим с опушки леса. Потом он вступил в партизанский отряд и мстил за свою маму (мою пробабушку) и убитых жителей деревни Ганцевичи. Лично пустил под откос два паровоза с немецкими солдатами и техникой (взорвал рельсы). Участвовал в операции по освобождению Беларуси летом 1944 года, награжден медалями. Помню и горжусь своим предком.
Сначала они помогают партизанам, а потом жалуются, что их в качестве наказания убиваю. Если бы они любили свою настоящую (не советскую) Родину, то с ними было бы всё хорошо. Пример: Локотская республика
I recently ventured out and watched this movie. It is the most truthful and definitely tough movie about the war, about the life of people in the occupied territories, that I have ever seen. A few years ago I was in Belarus, in the village of Khatyn, which the Nazis burned down with all the inhabitants. It was not a pleasant experience.
"i like that one austrian painter" mfs after being sent into a war full of hell and torture and they have to witness his people get burned and die for nothing (suddenly war is not so sigma)
I was going through my great-uncle’s military stuff bc his family is a bunch of hippies and they were scared. He was graves registration ETO WW2 and he had a lot of memorabilia. I found a photo of him and his buddies posing around a horse drawn cart somewhere in Belgium. Then there was a photo of Nazis on the same cart in the same village. I asked my dad wtf and he said he sent that camera home with the film undeveloped. He had taken it off a dead nazi and took some pics of him and his friends to finish the roll. In like the late 1950’s he got the film developed and he never talked about the war again. His brother was in ETO and everyone else was PTO so I remember them always arguing over who had it worse. I am so tired of wars.
Excellent. Well Done. It has been said for a very long time that the first casualty in ALL wars is Always TRUTH. WW2 was deeply and intimately a PSYOP on a sliding scale. The Socio-Psychological overlay was very real on every level. Sad & Tragic. Sadly all of this is very active today. ~ Be Safe out there folks ~ Peace & Health to Us All.
does anybody know the name of the picture where the german soldiers hold a gun to the russian boys head i saw the same picture in a video of a football game once but as a huge flag(just the soldier with the gun and the boy), i think in a game between poland and germany but i could be wrong.
Originally, this movie was to be titled "Kill Hitler," but the changed before release. This movie is one of the best war/horror films of all time for many reasons but really stands apart with its immersive use of audio distortion that allows us to hear what the main character hears throughout the whole movie.
4:04 Thats not the first time that picture is shown, its actually shown quite a few times throughout the movie, telling its own little story in the background
When I first saw it, I had a really different interpretation for the ending in my mind. Over the whole movie, Flora has to endure the most traumatic experiences and violence, but he himself only kills once : when he steps into a bird nest and kills the young birds by accident, which makes him cry. He never shoots or uses violence at a person the whole movie, except for the hitler portrait in the end. I thaught he only shot once and the pictures you see are just going around Floras mind, and even after he only shot at a picture of the most despicable man, who is the root cause of all Flora had to experience, he is still a child who can't be violent. (As was even Hitler once, therefore the picture of him as a child). So he starts crying again.
hey man ! i love ur stuff! keep going. If I can suggest a somewhat similar movie you could dissect, Incendie by Denis villeneuve (originally a theatre piece by Wajdi Mouawad)
Another purpose, I think, of the real-world images that were used, is that it shows how everything looks from the outside. From the outside, you see smiling children, Hitler smelling flowers, unity, strength, health, prosperity - all the things which no fascist regime can ever be. It is only ever what we came from and return to in the film - naked human desperation and unending cruelty. The price of the pretty little pictures are the souls of absolutely everyone - both the insulated 'quiet little Germans' and the fighters and, of course, the victims. The main character in Come and See suffers, I would say, a fate worse than death. To know that is within some people, that they would give up everything for a fake plasticine perfection based on nothing but pain... some things, I don't know how you live with. If what is done can be said to be living, that is.
This movie hurt my soul. It might be the most moving war picture I've ever seen. I wish more people in the West were familiar with it. It's free to watch in HD on UA-cam on MOSFILM Channel so we have no excuse not to see it. I give it a 10/10. I won't spoil the movie but it is depicts extremly realistic mass genocide commited by the Nazi's on the Soviets during WW2.
Watching "Come and See" for the first time. I feel like this is disturbing. War is not just about fame and glory but death and suffering. I believe this should be a horror movie.
(2:18) Is the younger man who comes into frame carrying a fuel can and looks straight at Flyora supposed to be a juxtaposition of their shared experiences? The one, Flyora, later on in his journey and the German youth near the beginning of his, during the "fun" and triumphant/flamboyant stage? I don't know. I'm not really sure if it was intentional, but it just caught my eye. Thanks for posting. EDIT: I'm not sure if I'm using the right words to describe the stage in life the depicted younger German is going through. I meant, "fun and triumphant/flamboyant" in terms of having fully absorbed and implemented the propaganda and rhetoric that he has experienced up to that point. I also wanted to point out that he almost looks identical to Flyora. At least to me, at any rate. Again, I'm not sure if that was meant to be intentional or not.
I feel like I am missing an introduction before you jump to the film analysis, yeah you mention it in the description, but not the video, which feels weird, like someone trying to explain something to me before even introducing what we are talking about. My first instinct isn't to go read the video description when I click on video. Hope this helps!
Love this movie. So hard to watch. I told my buddy about this film because he loves war movies but he couldn't finish it. They should make everyone watch this in school. Maybe then we wouldnt be escalating to another world war.
I still don't get it why these people keep making these movies every year about how bad the "nazis" were and the 6 million but never do they mention how bad the communists were and what they did. (over 20 million innocents dead, mass rape after 1945 in germany etc.).
It was very common until the early 70s for British and American films to use actual footage. For instance in films about bombing and suchlike,however that was mainly simple economics.
i find it very frustrating that you described (almost) every aspect of the film perfectly however you missed the mark on one of the most important scenes. when the protagonist is shooting the propaganda poster of hitler, we see the clips and snippets of footage linked directly to him, however not as propaganda or as a warning; the snapshots of film are documenting hitler's life from end to start. the original title of the film, "Kill Hitler", before it was changed to "Come And See" (which, by the way, is taken out of a quote, and was not intended to direct viewers to watch the film), was a very subtle nod to the "Baby Hitler" question, which asks if one would go back in time and kill hitler when he was an innocent baby. instead of the protagonist taking the warning, he is flashed with an iconic image of hitler as an infant, which he refuses to shoot. there is already another video essay documenting this, which i will link here; ua-cam.com/video/6nQWjVL578c/v-deo.html
The title of the film comes directly from Revelations. Unless I missed it, I don't think you mentioned it. It's not the most important thing about the film obviously but I do think any film essay about it should probably mention it.
Caramba, que ensaio maravilhoso! Creio que nossos olhos estão muito mais habituados com filmes em tons épicos e heroicos do que com o horror que a guerra verdadeiramente produz. E de fato, isso não ocorre ao acaso. A ideia de "filme de guerra" que está impressa em nossas mentes foi cuidadosamente pensada, roteirizada, coordenada para ter aqueles tons. Esse filme me convida a repensar nas minhas referências de filmes de guerra e (por que não?) na própria guerra. Que seu conteúdo chegue cada vez mais longe! Sucesso!
Já assistiu ''Nothing new on the western front''? Filme anti-guerra do ponto de vista de um soldado alemão. Em um primeiro momento o filme demonstra a expectativa de grandiosidade e a realidade da guerra. Ótimo filme.
This film along with Black sun were PTSD inducing and I cannot watch them again. But they serve a purpose in showing how those two Empires treated people that people forget why we ended the war we did. Times aren’t perfect but it’s much better than whatever they had in store.
I’d like to clarify on the whole “bad and evil Nazi’s” thing. Not every german was horrible, (you’d be suprised at what the soviets did against them.) The only branch was the waffen ss who did these crimes (not saying other branches didn’t aswell). A good series to show the misery of the german soldier is “Generation War”. Overall, war is hell. The elderly wage war, the youth fight for it. Great movie
Of course not all German did bad things but it certainly wasn’t only Waffen SS units. The ‘myth of the clean Wehrmacht’ is worth reading about. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht
@KitaNoChi War crimes are, of course, awful in all circumstances. However, the Wehrmacht were complicit in the holocaust. I think it is difficult to claim this is similar to war crimes committed by allies forces.
"You'd be surprised by what the Soviets did against them" tee hee as if they were the original victim lmaoo. If my country was invaded by a nation who classes our people as "subhumans" and plans to turn the entire population to slave labor, commiting massacres left and right like what happened in Belarus, sieging and starving cities (leningrad),bombing cities back to the middle ages, I sure as hell would feel sympathy and understand why the Soviets took vengeance when they had the chance.
Come and See is by far one of the strangest movies ive watched... not because of the portrayal or story, just the way it was filmed and certain scenes. Great movie, but oh so strange.
I've watched this film about 5 times and it's definitely the most disturbing film about the war I've watched, yes it inserts some 1940's newsreel but so do many other films but there is so much more you could have chosen to reveal that is genuinely shocking and unique such as using live firing of the MG over the heads of the actors and film crew in the scene where the cow is shot to ensure the sounds and carnage were accurately portrayed, and yes the cow was actually shot. Kravchenko who played the boy was forced onto a starvation diet for the later stages of filming to ensure he looked emaciated enough to support the deprivations shown. Maybe your heading should have read "live ammunition used in a war movie".
It's hard to grow on UA-cam, so I would really appreciate it if you could share my content with people you think might like it :)
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@@killshot5490 thank you so much bro
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surprised you didnt mention how much the movie was about childhood innocence. when he shoots the picture of hitler, he stops when the footage of hitler gets to a baby, saying that baby hitler was innocent because all children are.
probably because it was like the most obvious part of the film
@@dolsopolar some people do drugs and have brain damage (im some people)
@@dolsopolardont be mean😂 Ive showed this to so many people and people always ask why he stopped shooting😂😂😂😂 Apparantly its not so obvious as I thought too
@@danielsmokesmids dw still pretty smart
Some boys are psychopathic murderers.
Come and See was one of those films I always tried to forget about after watching because of how much I was not the same person after viewing it, but this video reminds me of how much of a haunting and devastating masterpiece it is. Really great and well put-together video essay, it was all super cohesive and concise!
Thank you very much! It means a lot that someone with as much discernment as you values my work. I'm glad you liked it :) Greetings and keep it up!
Yeah I watched it once about 15-20 years ago and never again. It had quite an impact. I do think everyone should watch it at least once though, it's an important film, an important reminder. I'm just.. not sure I'd want to "inflict" it on anyone? If that makes sense. Hard to explain.
I agree it truly hurt my spirit and cut deep. It's the most moving war picture I've ever seen. I want everybody to see it but at the same time it's so painful I almost feel guilty in causing them to feel pain by seeing it. It's the perfect War movie because war truely is hell. No glory just misery.
For me, that was We Were Soldiers. It just opened my eyes so much that we live our lives as we are, because of what they sacrificed. Greetings from down under 🇦🇺
This is by far one of the best video essays of this film that I've seen. The power of images and how they're presented and framed is so significant. You've earned a sub and derverse many more.
This is the only war movie that feels like you getting PTSD from watching it. It's the road to hell.
I still havent managed to watch it in one sitting, midway through it just requires a rest and decompress
OMG!!!
EVEN ALL QUITE ON THE WESTERN FRONT!!!!
you are cringe
@@Miss_Rawr_Rawr QUITE SO
Yeah it was so bad the person who plays the main character even got grey hairs cuz of this film
Reminds me of Call Of Duty World At War where they did the same thing with their loading screens. I don't know what disturbed me more, seeing the raw footage, or seeing it in the censored mode they had available where half the loading screens in game were dusted with pixel bars to obstruct the injured, dying, and dead. That game was unapologetically stark in trying to convey how effed war really is. Hell, even the main menu pulled no punches with "Brave Soldier, die with me" in the background. Absolute contrast to every other CoD since.
CoD now is a bad copy of Fortnite.
@@SilviaLikesCherries It feels as though integrity has been lost upon these art pieces of interact-able stories. Less meaning behind choices, and more of that for how the game feels while playing it, than how it conveys messages, tells a compelling story that makes *you* feel.
I mean, call of duty world at war didn't gloryfied anything,, if not the memory of the poor souls that died in the horrible cicumstances of war.
It was a game made with the idea of make the player understand, somehow, how rude, disgusting, uncessary and useless war is.
Is properly a videogame masterpiece, that can make you feel feelings like rage and sadness just looking at the details in the maps.
That's what i think.
and the ending of that game was sad too
Dont you DARE compare COD with this
Keep going, I've never seen a film essay so short before and I love it. Keep up the format.
I saw this movie in Moscow when it was released, still feels like I can’t watch it completely again, I only see small fragments. When I came back to my home country Schindler’s list was released and the whole world went crazy on how harsh it was, I always kept my opinion to myself: you should watch this one and really understand the horror. Very nice essay, I have enjoyed all your videos, keep them coming! Subscribed!
Shschindler list is american propaganda film
You’re a fucking beast for making a straight to the point video essay. Most other people would’ve gone an hour or two having to describing the entire movie then spend 5:47 actually addressing the point of the video.
This movie is one of the best ways to ask the question "Would you kill baby Hitler?"
On one hand, by doing so you prevent all the cruelty his regime caused (Tho probably not the war itself), on the other hand you perpetuate the very violence against innocents he was causing, because as a baby Hitler was still innocent.
Hitler foi só uma reação ao comunismo, não haveria Hitler sem Stálin. Dito isto, Stálin nada deve a Hitler em termos de sadismo e crueldade, a diferença é apenas que um lutou ao lado dos que ganharam e seus crimes foram "perdoados" ou pelo menos tirados de foco.
The REAL question is, Would you erase the people who is fault for hitIer's making his way into history to erase a fraction of population that time?
“If you a kill a killer the number of killers in the world stays the same”
That logic can be very flawed cuz yes their innocent, but the amount of deaths caused by this “at the time” innocent baby in the future is such s heavy loaded situation. In that quote if you killed 1,000 killers that means you just got rid of 999, disproving that quote in its entirety
@@M1sc3 Hitler wasn't a reaction to communism, extremist ideologies are a reaction to poor socio-economic conditions. When poor socio-economic conditions occur, people begin to look for something to blame, and these targets are often minority groups, in the case of Nazis, being Jewish people. Extremist Communism developed for similar reasons, though blamed the system in which the world functions. Whether Communist existed or not, there would still be a Nazi party, but how different it would have looked is debatable. It is more accurate to say the Nazi party was a reaction to the treaty of Versailles, WW1, and the great depression.
there would be another hitler anyaway
This film made me very angry for a few days. It was horribly disturbing
thats the truth of what happened... it bitter but true and it is very good at showing that in the movie i still remember watching it and get chills.
Madness
This wasn’t just a movie… it was reality for years… many of these things occurred on the Eastern Front of WW2… imagine this movie happening, but again and again, and all over again.
Both sides had it at each other it wasn't the same as the western front after the war ended American and German troops were laughing together and sending prays but on the eastern front they were still fighting because of the war crimes endured on both sides.
@@Chadrick2 "both sides"
I was surprised you didnt mention that the docu footage goes backwards
I think that part was representing Flyoras wish to undo all that has happened.
I don’t need to see a movie that shows what happens to innocence. I have a picture of my uncle with my dad and his other siblings and how young he looked. Then I have a picture of after my uncle returned from the Pacific. He looked like an old man. Same with my aunts husbands.
You're the man. Insane production quality
Beautiful description, it gave my goosebumps bravo. Now i will see this movie and show my family this video after BECAUSE OF YOU!
The way you edit your videos and convey your points is really great. I no joke expected you to have like 1 mil subs. Keep at it and you'll grow for sure!
I'll definitely have to watch more of your stuff 👍
Hello, everyone. I'm from Russia and I've seen this movie for the first time way back in 2019 when i was in college. Honestly, i dont know any other movie that would be as heavy for me as this one. Upon the first watch It had such horrifying impression on me, that i couldn't finish it. But, later, when i did - it left me feeling empty. Watching character's, even though fictional, pain, based off of real events, feels like a real pain of a real person. This movie doesn't hit with flashy effects or scenes of extreme gore, but the atmosphere, sound design, the tone, feeling of hopelessness - it all makes it feel like the worst nightmare, the end of old life through horror and pain. There's no other movie that could be as dead hitting as this one.
And, to finish my long comment, i wouldn't recommend this movie to everyone. Its a raw, soul breaking, fleshed out movie that is not for the weak of heart.
Ah, this is a great vid essay, you'll go far
Thank you so much. You'll go far too!
Bro, I love your videos and wish you much success with your channel. I watch a lot of channels similar (fortunately not the same) and as an actor and looking to be a filmmaker you not only give perspective maybe not thought about but point out the importance of why something is happening. All useful in everything I do.
Thank you.
Cheers!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate you taking the time to write those kind words
Deserves more views keep up the good work 🙏
Thank you so much for your suppor brot! You don't know how important it is to receive feedback like this when one is starting out :)
@@lancelloti. The grind can get tough but stick at it and you'll do great bro 🙏
Your material is really great man. Keep up the good work!
This is the most "video essay" video essay on UA-cam. I could barely stomach it!
I just discovered your channel, instantly subscribed i think you'll go far keep them coming!
thank you bro
I saw the movie a few months ago. Here is my review I wrote earlier for anyone who is interested (spoilers obvs).
Come and See' (1985) Review
Come and See is a Soviet film from the year 1985. It was directed by Elem Klimov and the screenplay was written by Ales Adamovich. As children, Klimov had to flee Stalingrad on a boat across the Volga with his mother, while Adamovich's experience directly relates to the story of the film.
The title comes from the Book of Revelation: “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, ‘Come and see.' And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
The story is set in occupied Belarus during the Second World War. It begins on a sandy beach, where our young protagonist, Flyora, a 15 year old boy, together with another boy are digging up artefacts. They find an SVT-40 rifle, and Flyora keeps it. After this, partisans come to visit his house. They take him into the woods as a squire, where he meets Glasha, a girl of about the same age. They meet and form a connection, alternately crying and hysterically laughing over their circumstances.
They enjoy their time in the woods together but a bombing attack and a German paratrooper drop scatters them. Flyora and Glasha return to Flyora's house, where an eerie quiet is all that is found. They are happy and glad to find a meal to eat, but wonder where his family and the others have gone. (The film becomes darker around here).
On the way out of the village, Glasha notices a pile of bodies behind Flyora's house. The two of them break down hysterically and are found by a partisan, who takes them to his camp. An old man badly burnt blames Flyora for digging up the rifles and causing the events.
At this point Flyora is given a mission, to tag along with a motley crew of partistans. Their job is to try and seize some food in a warehouse. They make a mock Hitler out of clay and put a grenade in it as a booby trap in an effort to ambush a German convoy, but everything goes badly wrong when mines suddenly detonate on the road.
Flyora and the surviving partisan try to take a cow back from a village as food, but along the way the partisan and cow are killed by machine gun fire. When Flyora awakes from sleeping, he meets a peasant, and then the Germans arrive in large numbers in trucks. The peasant takes him in and tells him to keep quiet.
The Germans and their local collaborators round up everyone in the village and herd them into a large barn, with the promise they would be "sent to Germany for work". An SS officer tells them in Russian that they can leave the barn through a window if they leave their children behind. Flyora and a couple of others get out. The rest refuse. The Germans throw grenades and Molotov cocktails into the barn and then shoot at it until everything is silent.
Flyora and a few others are spared for the amusement of the German troops. He staggers away and some hours later finds that the partisans have ambushed an SS convoy made up of some of the same troops. They gather round and the Germans and collaborators beg for mercy, which is not granted.
Flyora, deeply traumatised by this point, now walks around under the bridge where the partisans are. He finds a portrait of Hitler, this portrait below, with the text reading "Hitler the Liberator". www.posterplakat.com/content/1-the-collection/posters/0-pp-284/PP284.jpg
He fires his first shots of the film into Hitler's face as a surreal and chaotic montage of Nazi Germany and Hitler's life plays in reverse interspersed with his anger and shooting. The partisans call for him to keep up, and he follows them along. They walk off into the forest, and again in the next shot, as it turns to snow.
I had heard a lot about this film and wanted to see it, being a WW2 history buff and a WW2 film buff, for quite some time. Some of you have probably heard of it as well. Its reputation precedes it as a brutally graphic depiction of the worst crimes of Nazi Germany, but the film is more than just that. I was expecting this part, of course, but all in all the violence does not take up most of the film, only portions.
The thing I love most about this film is its surreal nature, and the way how close up expressions of Flyora and Glasha are constantly used to take the viewer out of the moment into a kind of dream-like state. Half of the film feels plainly realistic, and that half is mainly those parts which have more people in them, whereas in the scenes with Flyora and only a few others, the dream-like state is re-entered. Sound is used wonderfully to produce an ominous or a disturbing tone in certain scenes. Sometimes the sound is so subtle you can barely notice it, but it is there: a kind of unsettling rumbling barely perceptible in the background, or a ringing tone. All the audio and visuals come together to put the viewer not only in the location, but also with Flyora's mind, and his mental state, becoming more and more traumatised and less connected with reality throughout the film.
The movie is not for the faint of heart, I warn you, but it is not excessively gory or sadistic compared to other war films. It never seems to revel or relish in the gore and atrocities but rather presents them as a backdrop of Flyora's journey through a broken world. On a purely visual level, the narrative towards the end leaves behind the streams and forests of earlier into a wasteland. The final scenes are taken up by burning flames and ruin all around mixed with the cheering and laughing of the German soldiers on their trucks, and then by a puddle in a muddy field in which Hitler's portrait is floating.
Some of the scenes, particularly the one with Glasha dancing in the rain to imaginary swing music, are genuinely heart-warming. Still, it is not a happy film all in all, as you could probably tell. The end left me feeling neither very sad nor happy, simply empty in the same way as the devastation in the film.
I thought the movie was brilliant, and a really unique piece of art, not only as an audio-visual, but also as a psychological experience. For anyone who has the stomach for this sort of thing, I very highly recommend it.
Fascinating. Thank you for that in depth review and analysis.
Great video man, you'll grow very big!
The sheer amount of balls it took to pull off this movie.
Making a movie about Nazis being bad is the safest thing a person can do.
@@EricNapoli-z3d There were a number of things Soviet censors took issue with that delayed the movie:
- The extreme graphic violence
- The protagonist is not a hero but rather a victim who's constantly deteriorating from the circumstances. The Soviets preferred propagandistic pathos over bleak realism. Partisans were the object of such lionization. To depict them with any ambiguity is ballzy move in the USSR.
- There is religious symbolism which censors weren't fond of.
@@EricNapoli-z3d Because nazis were, or in this context, the nazis who invaded and contributed to the invasion of Belarus were.
@@elchicogore9517 Were what?
@@EricNapoli-z3d Bad, evil, despicable.
This movie is a film that you cannot just watch it once you need to revisit it. I was blown away when I first saw this a couple years ago
Can't believe you only have 48k subs, great video
There’s something really catchy and strange about that shot of the Nazi soldier with his goggles reflecting light
Very good point and observation!
this movie was one of the most terrifying things i’ve ever seen
Every war movie has a moral obligation to portray war in its truest form, not to romanticise and obfuscate the true horror and existential dread that is war.
Full Metal Jacket, Come and See, All Quiet on the western front, 1917 are movies that are unique even from each other, they all show how these respective wars were known to be, the crudeness of human evil and mind.
i cant be articulate for this
this is truly beautiful an incredible work of art possibly one of the best video essays ive ever seen very incredibly emotion jesus christ keep making stuff
just found your channel, and I absolutely love your work!! thank you so much for all the effort you put into every video 🙌
Thanks bro 🙌 I just uploaded a new one today, in case you want to check it out :)
Just got this recommended. Nice channel. You got a new subscriber man!!
Just saw your Andy Circus video. Extremely good quality. Instant sub and gonna watch all your vids the coming days ❤❤❤
Фильм о зверствах карательных отрядов на территории Беларуси (БССР) , весна-лето-осень 1943 года.
Карательных подразделений, таких как - 118-й батальон шуцманшафта (по большей части этнические украинцы, военнопленные Красной армии, сформирован в Киеве ), командовал немец Эрих Кернер и украинец Григорий Васюра. Особый батальон СС «Дирлевангер» (комплектовалось из заключённых немецких тюрем, концлагерей и военных тюрем СС и военнопленных Красной армии, более половины состава батальона советские граждане(русские, украинцы,белорусы), командовал немец - Оскар Дирлевангер. Эти немецкие подразделения действовали против гражданского населения и партизан на территории Беларуси (БССР).
Мою пробабушку 12.05.1943 г. так же живьем спалили нацисты и фашисты в собственном доме, Беларусь, деревня Ганцевичи, Плещенский район, недалеко от печально известной деревни Хатынь, которую спалили вышеперечисленные карательные немецкие подразделения. Всего в деревне Ганцевичи сожгли и убили 130 мирных жителей , в основном женщины и дети. Мой дедушка, которому было 17 лет успел убежать из деревни и наблюдал за происходящим с опушки леса. Потом он вступил в партизанский отряд и мстил за свою маму (мою пробабушку) и убитых жителей деревни Ганцевичи. Лично пустил под откос два паровоза с немецкими солдатами и техникой (взорвал рельсы). Участвовал в операции по освобождению Беларуси летом 1944 года, награжден медалями.
Помню и горжусь своим предком.
Сначала они помогают партизанам, а потом жалуются, что их в качестве наказания убиваю. Если бы они любили свою настоящую (не советскую) Родину, то с ними было бы всё хорошо. Пример: Локотская республика
@@Joe-kq5sw мы вас нацистов всех перебьем
no fucking way, a video essay that is not 50+ hours long
I recently ventured out and watched this movie. It is the most truthful and definitely tough movie about the war, about the life of people in the occupied territories, that I have ever seen. A few years ago I was in Belarus, in the village of Khatyn, which the Nazis burned down with all the inhabitants. It was not a pleasant experience.
Come and see is one of those few bits of media that changes you
This fella deserves alot more views
You deserve more subs man
4:48 im sorry but we are "Nat zi-ing them"
I did Nat zi that coming
I thought that too
You should have more subscribers. Great content!
"i like that one austrian painter" mfs after being sent into a war full of hell and torture and they have to witness his people get burned and die for nothing (suddenly war is not so sigma)
I swear i hate those "war is hell yeah🗿" bitches
Amazing Video, keep going (this one is for you and the algorithm)
I was going through my great-uncle’s military stuff bc his family is a bunch of hippies and they were scared. He was graves registration ETO WW2 and he had a lot of memorabilia. I found a photo of him and his buddies posing around a horse drawn cart somewhere in Belgium. Then there was a photo of Nazis on the same cart in the same village. I asked my dad wtf and he said he sent that camera home with the film undeveloped. He had taken it off a dead nazi and took some pics of him and his friends to finish the roll. In like the late 1950’s he got the film developed and he never talked about the war again. His brother was in ETO and everyone else was PTO so I remember them always arguing over who had it worse. I am so tired of wars.
This is a beautiful, comprehensive and well crafted video. The algorithm did good this time.
What’s the name of that song in the background? I hear it a lot but never know what to look up
mozart lacrimosa
Great vid!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Such a good video! Loved it
Great videos. Super impressed. Keep it up
Excellent. Well Done. It has been said for a very long time that the first casualty in ALL wars is Always TRUTH. WW2 was deeply and intimately a PSYOP on a sliding scale. The Socio-Psychological overlay was very real on every level. Sad & Tragic. Sadly all of this is very active today. ~ Be Safe out there folks ~ Peace & Health to Us All.
does anybody know the name of the picture where the german soldiers hold a gun to the russian boys head
i saw the same picture in a video of a football game once but as a huge flag(just the soldier with the gun and the boy), i think in a game between poland and germany but i could be wrong.
Originally, this movie was to be titled "Kill Hitler," but the changed before release. This movie is one of the best war/horror films of all time for many reasons but really stands apart with its immersive use of audio distortion that allows us to hear what the main character hears throughout the whole movie.
very well done! i appreciate the insights.
Hell yeah, this was a great video!!
This was a really good video, so I am commenting to boost it into the algorithm
notice how in the last shot his body is reflected perfectly in the portrait of hitler.
4:04 Thats not the first time that picture is shown, its actually shown quite a few times throughout the movie, telling its own little story in the background
When I first saw it, I had a really different interpretation for the ending in my mind.
Over the whole movie, Flora has to endure the most traumatic experiences and violence, but he himself only kills once : when he steps into a bird nest and kills the young birds by accident, which makes him cry. He never shoots or uses violence at a person the whole movie, except for the hitler portrait in the end. I thaught he only shot once and the pictures you see are just going around Floras mind, and even after he only shot at a picture of the most despicable man, who is the root cause of all Flora had to experience, he is still a child who can't be violent. (As was even Hitler once, therefore the picture of him as a child). So he starts crying again.
hey man ! i love ur stuff! keep going. If I can suggest a somewhat similar movie you could dissect, Incendie by Denis villeneuve (originally a theatre piece by Wajdi Mouawad)
Thank you very much bro! I'll keep that in mind; it's a movie I love, and Villeneuve is one of my favorite mainstream directors.
@@lancelloti. woooo so many views 2 month later !! congrats
Fun fact: Call Of duty world at war shows real footage of a rifle execution during the prologue intro to the level “Semper Fi”
0:54 The Great Trial
what is the last image at the end called, in the outro
Another purpose, I think, of the real-world images that were used, is that it shows how everything looks from the outside. From the outside, you see smiling children, Hitler smelling flowers, unity, strength, health, prosperity - all the things which no fascist regime can ever be. It is only ever what we came from and return to in the film - naked human desperation and unending cruelty. The price of the pretty little pictures are the souls of absolutely everyone - both the insulated 'quiet little Germans' and the fighters and, of course, the victims. The main character in Come and See suffers, I would say, a fate worse than death. To know that is within some people, that they would give up everything for a fake plasticine perfection based on nothing but pain... some things, I don't know how you live with. If what is done can be said to be living, that is.
Judith Butler did an article on Sonntag called "Frames of War" I think, it was a good read
This movie hurt my soul. It might be the most moving war picture I've ever seen. I wish more people in the West were familiar with it. It's free to watch in HD on UA-cam on MOSFILM Channel so we have no excuse not to see it. I give it a 10/10. I won't spoil the movie but it is depicts extremly realistic mass genocide commited by the Nazi's on the Soviets during WW2.
Watching "Come and See" for the first time.
I feel like this is disturbing. War is not just about fame and glory but death and suffering.
I believe this should be a horror movie.
(2:18) Is the younger man who comes into frame carrying a fuel can and looks straight at Flyora supposed to be a juxtaposition of their shared experiences? The one, Flyora, later on in his journey and the German youth near the beginning of his, during the "fun" and triumphant/flamboyant stage? I don't know. I'm not really sure if it was intentional, but it just caught my eye. Thanks for posting.
EDIT: I'm not sure if I'm using the right words to describe the stage in life the depicted younger German is going through. I meant, "fun and triumphant/flamboyant" in terms of having fully absorbed and implemented the propaganda and rhetoric that he has experienced up to that point. I also wanted to point out that he almost looks identical to Flyora. At least to me, at any rate. Again, I'm not sure if that was meant to be intentional or not.
It looks like Flyora even looks at him as he approaches. I don't know. I feel like there's something happening there in the work...
kid did a good job on the expressions fr.
I feel like I am missing an introduction before you jump to the film analysis, yeah you mention it in the description, but not the video, which feels weird, like someone trying to explain something to me before even introducing what we are talking about. My first instinct isn't to go read the video description when I click on video. Hope this helps!
This was ❤🔥! The essay was solid. Thank you for this.
Love this movie. So hard to watch. I told my buddy about this film because he loves war movies but he couldn't finish it. They should make everyone watch this in school. Maybe then we wouldnt be escalating to another world war.
Tell him to try again
everyone who glamorises war should watch this movie
Great video!
Damn it, these videos are never long enough. Lol love your content, man.
I still don't get it why these people keep making these movies every year about how bad the "nazis" were and the 6 million but never do they mention how bad the communists were and what they did. (over 20 million innocents dead, mass rape after 1945 in germany etc.).
great video!!
It was very common until the early 70s for British and American films to use actual footage. For instance in films about bombing and suchlike,however that was mainly simple economics.
the disturbing part is the cow torture during filming or whatever it was
A warning of something we'd never be able to stop because we don't have control, We are controlled.
The title of the film is from the Book of Revelation 6: 1-17.
i find it very frustrating that you described (almost) every aspect of the film perfectly however you missed the mark on one of the most important scenes. when the protagonist is shooting the propaganda poster of hitler, we see the clips and snippets of footage linked directly to him, however not as propaganda or as a warning; the snapshots of film are documenting hitler's life from end to start. the original title of the film, "Kill Hitler", before it was changed to "Come And See" (which, by the way, is taken out of a quote, and was not intended to direct viewers to watch the film), was a very subtle nod to the "Baby Hitler" question, which asks if one would go back in time and kill hitler when he was an innocent baby.
instead of the protagonist taking the warning, he is flashed with an iconic image of hitler as an infant, which he refuses to shoot. there is already another video essay documenting this, which i will link here; ua-cam.com/video/6nQWjVL578c/v-deo.html
It was hard to distinguish if it was a war movie or a horror movie. Not cheap thrills, but real horror that keeps you up at night.
The title of the film comes directly from Revelations. Unless I missed it, I don't think you mentioned it. It's not the most important thing about the film obviously but I do think any film essay about it should probably mention it.
Caramba, que ensaio maravilhoso! Creio que nossos olhos estão muito mais habituados com filmes em tons épicos e heroicos do que com o horror que a guerra verdadeiramente produz. E de fato, isso não ocorre ao acaso. A ideia de "filme de guerra" que está impressa em nossas mentes foi cuidadosamente pensada, roteirizada, coordenada para ter aqueles tons. Esse filme me convida a repensar nas minhas referências de filmes de guerra e (por que não?) na própria guerra.
Que seu conteúdo chegue cada vez mais longe! Sucesso!
Já assistiu ''Nothing new on the western front''? Filme anti-guerra do ponto de vista de um soldado alemão. Em um primeiro momento o filme demonstra a expectativa de grandiosidade e a realidade da guerra. Ótimo filme.
This film along with Black sun were PTSD inducing and I cannot watch them again. But they serve a purpose in showing how those two Empires treated people that people forget why we ended the war we did. Times aren’t perfect but it’s much better than whatever they had in store.
Utopia sounds like torture
what's the name of the font ?
Never seen the movie, but I can tell how great of an actor that kid is. His expressions resemble the those before/after photos of soldiers in WW1/WW2.
i love how concise it is
I’d like to clarify on the whole “bad and evil Nazi’s” thing. Not every german was horrible, (you’d be suprised at what the soviets did against them.) The only branch was the waffen ss who did these crimes (not saying other branches didn’t aswell). A good series to show the misery of the german soldier is “Generation War”. Overall, war is hell. The elderly wage war, the youth fight for it. Great movie
Of course not all German did bad things but it certainly wasn’t only Waffen SS units. The ‘myth of the clean Wehrmacht’ is worth reading about. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_clean_Wehrmacht
@@justsomeguy6203yhea the myth of the clean wehrmacht was done by German veteran who blame all attrocities to the SS.
@KitaNoChi War crimes are, of course, awful in all circumstances. However, the Wehrmacht were complicit in the holocaust. I think it is difficult to claim this is similar to war crimes committed by allies forces.
@@justsomeguy6203 by that logic, then the soldiers of the red army also helped send people to gulags
"You'd be surprised by what the Soviets did against them" tee hee as if they were the original victim lmaoo.
If my country was invaded by a nation who classes our people as "subhumans" and plans to turn the entire population to slave labor, commiting massacres left and right like what happened in Belarus, sieging and starving cities (leningrad),bombing cities back to the middle ages, I sure as hell would feel sympathy and understand why the Soviets took vengeance when they had the chance.
This video is amazingly done and well edited, scripted, etc… I would just really appreciate if you used your real voice
What's the name of background music?
Come and See is by far one of the strangest movies ive watched... not because of the portrayal or story, just the way it was filmed and certain scenes. Great movie, but oh so strange.
If you watching only netflix any movie will be strange
is this overdubbed in another language in your speaking sequences?
Yo what's the name of the first song in the video?
That soviet song is not called secret war but scared war.
Sacred
Really great video. Keep it up
I've watched this film about 5 times and it's definitely the most disturbing film about the war I've watched, yes it inserts some 1940's newsreel but so do many other films but there is so much more you could have chosen to reveal that is genuinely shocking and unique such as using live firing of the MG over the heads of the actors and film crew in the scene where the cow is shot to ensure the sounds and carnage were accurately portrayed, and yes the cow was actually shot. Kravchenko who played the boy was forced onto a starvation diet for the later stages of filming to ensure he looked emaciated enough to support the deprivations shown. Maybe your heading should have read "live ammunition used in a war movie".
I am concerned that we are the same person.