What a horrible way to experience life.

Rating: Null/10 (9 December 2007)

Come and See (1985) by Alem Klimov, shows how a young man named Florya was so excited about joining the army, but once he was in it he found out that it was not pleasant at all. At the age of 12, he had to experience WWII, when the Jews were the target of the Nazis. Florya lost his innocence, family, and friends. The only thing that he did not lose was the willing of keeping himself alive. Klimov did a great job showing how the war affected Florya's emotional feelings, how he started aging little by little in front of the camera. The movie is not so much about the graphics of the Holocaust, but how the war affected people's mind and feelings. The movie shows the cruel reality how young boys have the wrong idea why they want to join the army, but once they experience war they really find out the answer why they are fighting for. Almost at the end of the movie, Florya shot the photo of Adolph Hitler with a rifle, and it was a way for him to take all that pain and anger he had inside. He felt that he found a reason why to keep fighting against the Nazis. Florya felt the right to defend himself against people who wanted to hurt him.