Everything is real

Rating: 10/10 (4 June 2012)

Come and See is probably the best World War 2 movie I have ever seen. It is also the movie that has affected me the most, leaving me with a feeling of unease for days afterwards. And this is not a bad thing, that is exactly how a movie about war should be. What is impressive about this movie is that it is 100% real, everything that happens is real and that is very obvious to the viewer which is why it is so beyond moving. This is a movie that will not leave anyone unaffected seeing that, even though it is fictional, all of what happens in this movie actually happened in history, but in an even bigger scale. This is what is frightening and what creates the feeling of unease. Klemov does not leave anything to the imagination of the viewer but show in a brutal way just what the Nazis did to the villages and the people in Byelorussia at the time which is a clever way to prevent the reader from ever being completely able to think that "this is just a movie". Horrible, clever, beautiful, frightening, real, absolutely beyond excellent - I cannot praise this movie enough.