Come and See (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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He thinks that it is his duty because with the exception of the village idiot and a few dedushkas who are too old and sick to fight the invaders all other men have already done so. Sadly, Roger Deakins is right to point out that these types of powerful authentic films can no longer be made because with the evolution of digital technology something special has been lost.

There is some kind of nasty elegance to the camerawork here as it puts the beauty of the land in the background and its wonderful nature that has to watch babies getting thrown in the air to their death and young girls being dragged by their hair as soldiers laugh. He covers some of the same ground that his brother did in the other interview (including how the title Come and See came about, though it differs a bit here) but expands on many details, like the events that led up to the film finally being made, and then production specific things like filming the barn sequence, where they ended up using locals who were probably around when the actual events happened. It’s a cinematic simulacrum of the overwhelming, discombobulating sensory experience of war that would have an influence on virtually every war movie made after it. There’s no transcendent truth, no noble human dignity to be dug up from the mass graves of the Holocaust. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.Roger Deakins - in this new interview, cinematographer Roger Deakins ( 1984) discusses the visual style of Cone and See. With a remarkable visual style along with a terrifying journey in the center of hell on earth, this film is one of the best narratives on the cruelties of the Holocaust and WWII. Flyora's heartbroken mother, who has to take care of his younger twin sisters, begs him not to abandon her, but he unceremoniously rejects her plea and then heads to the nearby forest where the partisans have built a large camp.

Dialogue may be the only weak element: in comparison to the everything else it comes off incredibly flat and does stick out compared to every other aspect of the track. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance.

WWII 1943 occupied Byelorussia: After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II. In case you are wondering, it is the need for raw human emotions, which digital technology can deliver on demand). One cannot even begin to comprehend what took place in Belarus -- and other neighboring lands that were invaded during the same period -- if one does not realize what Hitler and his armies were engaged in.