War Is Hell - Come and See

Review of the film Come and See directed by Elem Klimov.

Here is the trailer:


Florya is a young Beylorussian (now Belarus) man that wants to join up with the partisans to fight the Nazis. He is hardly more than a boy. There isn't much of a story here, to be honest. We are watching a young man live through the most horrific experiences war has to offer. Over and over again. Nonetheless the movie is very powerful. We've seen some pretty graphic and raw war movies in modern cinema. This movie pretty much tops them all in my opinion, in depicting just how despicable humankind can be. It is unrelenting, and the filmmakers play a trick on us by physically aging Florya's face as the movie unfolds. Though very little time actually passes from the beginning of the film to the end, Florya experiences several lifetimes of terror.