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Rating: 9/10 (10 February 2012)

Come and see was a film that really served as a warning to avoid violence and war. It seemed that the director Klimov did everyhtin he could to depict war the horror of war. In opening scenes of the film I noticed how proud the main character Flor was about finding a gun and joining the rebel army. When the soldiers come and take Flor away from his mother it is evident that he has been sold an sensationalized view of war. He is proud to serve and fight in the war. At the camp Flor begins to see that war is not what he really thought. When he is forced to clean the camp and give up his boots Flor begins to git a hint that war is a rough rigid life full of necessity and not wants. When the army leaves Flor behind to watch after the camp he realizes that war is not so glorious. When Flor is having a good time and the mortars begin to fall out of the sky with the ground blowing up all around him flor is suddenly introduced into the psychological horrors of war. He soon realizes that war is hell on earth and not fun. The scene that most illustrates this is the scene where the nazi's round up all the towns people in a village , force them into a warehouse and burn them alive. This scene for me summarizes what the message of the movie. That war is hell and that maybe we should as adults should reassess the way we sell war , combat and violence as to younger children. It made me realize that as humans we are not wired for the psychological terror and trauma for war. This was one of the most emotionally disturbing movies that I have seen in my life. As previously mentioned the scene were the Nazis round up all of the women, children, elders and towns people. What disturbed me was how easy it was for the Nazis to burn tortue and kill those people in the village. It made me feel upset that human beings could become so barbaric and inhumane, I soon found myself calling the nazi's bastards wanting to jump out of my seat and throw something at the screen. My anger was a credit to Klimov's brilliant film making that make you feel like your were experience the real think, that I was there in the war. Lastly the main thing that I got from this movie was how dehumanizing war could be. It shocked me to see that Flor would rather use a bandage to repair his rifle than to help save a ding person. This allowed me to see how people over become dehumanized like the nazi's who killed all the villagers