The first casualty of war is innocence

Rating: 10/10 (3 October 2007)

The tag line of another great war drama Casualties of war seemed to me as the most appropriate line to describe Elem Klimov's poetic war drama COME AND SEE(Idi i Smotri).Unlike many traditional war films,'Come and See'-has no heroic catharsis or narrative symmetry .Instead Klimov's apocalyptic vision ,which mixes poetic and brutal imagery,focuses on the destruction of a young life and the horrors of war.I am glad that this movie finally made into the top 250 list but i personally wish that a movie of such a calibre should easily make to top 5 ,if not the best. Most war movies deal with the heroic deeds of a single or a group of soldiers ,but what attracted me most about Come and See is the fact that the two main characters of the movie are SOUND and VISION.I never believed before watching this movie that a wonder can be created without the help of any war hero.It remains the best war movie i have watched till date taking into consideration the likes of Appocalypse Now ,Saving Private Ryan,Glory,Platoon,Patton .