This 1985 film from Russia is one of the most devastating films ever about anything, and in it, the survivors must envy the dead. The actual title, no less direct in its charge to the viewer, hails from the Book of Revelation: As the first four seals of God’s judgment are opened, one of the four living beasts declares, “Come and see.” The words beckon you with a chill; they’re like an invitation to the end of the world.It’s an invitation you should accept. Surely Florya discovers a gun and is ready to go to war. One of the greatest films ever made, Elem Klimov's anti-war masterpiece is ironically named, as those with weak stomachs may want to steer clear. The images evoke the Holocaust.

The director has elicited an excellent performance from his central actor Kravchenko. While his camerawork is visionary by placing us inside a living nightmare, it’s his two other audacious decisions that render this film great. The first progresses throughout the film. It’s an intense reflection of rewinding and reimagining time to the point that would prevent all of this chaos from ever happening. His face expresses unutterable emotion that travels beyond shock and awe. A similar childlike wonder is on display in the 1985 Russian film Come and See, which documents the ruthlessness of the Nazi forces as they tear their way through Belarus villages in 1943. They are playing games of war, and digging in the sand for weapons concealed or lost during some earlier conflict.We meet them. Every scene drives home its point, plainly, that man's inhumanity to man is incurable. Also, his face can remind cinephiles of Maria Falconetti’s face from the 1928 silent film It is, in the end, Klimov’s superb direction that persuades us to stay with this film.

Perhaps the most terrifying, nightmarish film anyone has ever made about war.
A few scenes later we see Florya breaking the news to his mother and two younger sisters. Glasha (Olga Mironova), innocent and warm, dreams of her future. Whenever Florya encounters a horrific sight Klimov’s camera lingers on his face for an inordinate amount of time, zooming in to the point where we can feel the boy’s deep breathes and feel what he feels. And it builds, inexorably, to a conflagration that tests your limits and those of the medium itself, of what depths of suffering can and cannot be dramatized. Klimov draws out the tension, the anticipatory dread, to an unendurable degree. It suggests that a war’s horrors were the ultimate unassimilable experience of the shadowy depths of the human mind.

By now his only instinct in life has become to escape death.

No one would ever make the mistake of saying that about Elem Klimov's "Come and See." March 2, 2020 March 10, 2020 Come And See comes with a new 1080p HD transfer in its original 1.37:1 aspect ratio that looks the best it ever has with sharp detail and a great color palette.


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