New perspectives on the WW2

Rating: 9/10 (12 April 2001)

Most films I've ever seen about the world war 2 has been either from a jolly good Englishman's or a flag wrapped Yankee's eyes. Two exceptions from the past - Das Boot and a movie about the battle of Suomossalmi. Til now. Enemy at the gates shows more than any other film the soldiers destiny - to die from a random bullet. A bullet with no address, just hitting a lung, a heart, a part of someones brain. Just like that. And that in a film which was meant to tell a story about snipers. Furthermore, the film presents Russians as humans, not beasts or machines, and it makes you think. Not that I didn't know before that they really were humans, but I've never had that feeling before that Russians, has suffered just as much as any other people and that we in the west owe them a great deal of respect for helping mankind end the world war 2.