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It was a different kind of Nazi violence than I'm accustomed to seeing... a more biker gang or baltic death squad kind of thing (as opposed to the - of course - horribly brutal but more cooly efficient killing and culling machine seen in other films). Those Waffen-SS units in the SE were just beyond the beyond in terms of brutality... and from what I read many of them were called in to quell the Warsaw uprising.I thought the filmakers did an amazing job of trying to get us to feel (just the tiniest, tiniest bit... but that's a lot) what it might have felt like to be in that madness.
As you pointed out there was great use of sound and camera work in bringing that feeling to life.
Hard film to watch but glad I did.
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
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as groups of men do terrible things, they maintain a solemnity.
When they joke, laugh, and appear to be having the times of their lives as they brutalize, it is much more terrifying.
Glad you "enjoyed" it...
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I've been wanting to watch it again after it was brought up recently, but I can't make myself. It's hard to get into the mood to watch something that uncomfortable.The way the boy stares blankly into the camera is almost harder to watch than most of the violence.
"The way the boy stares blankly into the camera is almost harder to watch than most of the violence."That and the girl after the truckload of Nazi's is through with her... man!!
Don't piss on my shoe and tell me it's raining.
Yes, that last bit with the girl is the most disturbing of the whole thing. I get a sick feeling just thinking about it.Both of those kid actors did a hell of a job with some heavy material, no doubt.
for his role, he's literally sleep walking his way through most of it
I'd describe Come and See as the most powerful Anti-war film as it doesn't glorify the characters or their situation ( not the usual jingoistic dapper chaps doing daring deeds *rubbish* that constitutes war films )The Winter War ( Finnish film, Pekka Parikka dir. ) also falls into the same ( rare ) category of believability, I see Amazon have this on DVD, + concerns the earlier Russian invasion of Finland
Finland 1, Russia 0Grins
I was thinking about picking that one up next...Also good is "The Red & The White" by Miklos Jancso. Not quite as graphic as "Come & See", but it explores the same thematic vein...
but well worth seeing; be warned, the original European VHS of Talvisota is 70 minutes *longer* than the DVD; that will undoubtedly compromise the film and the storyBefore I saw Come and See, Talvisota was my #1 war film, if anything Talvisota is a more evenly paced film than Come and See where the 1st 1/2 of the film nothing much happens....
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