Come And See

Always been kind of afraid to watch this. One day...
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, March 13, 2016

Watched this morning and wasn't wholly prepared for it. God alive what an extraordinary experience.
I like what xyzzz said about it, that it's 'very responsible' in its depictions of violence and cruelty. It's not exploitative and sensational. Its job, as its title implies, is to show. I was shown.

How come posts from here don't appear on the main site? How are people supposed to be dazzled by my banal responses to great art if they can't see them?

it's a great movie, and there is nothing more harrowing in this (at least for me) than the scene at the end of Ivan's Childhood that shows real Soviet footage of Goebbels' cyanide pilled dead children laid out on the ground.

not that I was arsed about Goebbels' corpse but I absolutely don't want to see real children's corpses in a movie

I'm not convinced by that final montage? I like that those are literally the only shots the kid fires but the partisans walking into the forest and us finally losing sight of his face would have been a powerful enough ending on its own.

The stork. I can't stop thinking about the stork (maybe to protect myself from the scenes in Khatyn).

who has seen klimovs rasputin film 'agoniya'?

I did, on the big screen. I had to move seats because a presumably-Russian older couple nearby kept chortling at scenes that were not apparently funny, and muttering to each other in between. Certainly not as striking a film as Come and See.

I saw this in the theater - last year, I think - in a revival. It’s the first and last time I’ll see it. Quite bracing.

I saw this back when it was first released. My Russian professor also saw it and was appalled. She said the title was appropriate, it reminded her of young boys torturing an animal and telling her, "Come and see," knowing that she would be disgusted and upset.

it's on the mosfilm YouTube site btw