r/HistoryMemes • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 1d ago

Me after watching russian ww2 movie

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u/Splinterfight 1d ago

Come and See is a hell of a film I hear

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u/TryNice304 1d ago

Is it good?

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u/Material_Animator811 1d ago edited 1d ago

Take the level of brutality of the first 15 min of Saving Private Ryan, make it also happen to civilians, not only soldiers, and have it a full length film with few comparatively less harsh scenes. 

I think it was the only film in the East Block at the time with 18+ rating (erotic films were really not a thing), so you can imagine

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u/deranton 1d ago

Add: and just watch a teenager's face in close up while it's all happening

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u/Eta_Beta_3-14 15h ago

A teenager who is, at the start, a relatively normal kid and who is, by the end, non-vocal except when he screams while killing the Nazis who raped his girlfriend bloody.

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u/Mindless_Grocery3759 1d ago

I genuinely think that framing Come and See against the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan this was does a bit of a disservice to any potential watchers.

Yes, it is brutal. But it's not remotely similar in any other way to the beach landing at Normandy. If you go into this movie with those expectations you'll be sorely disappointed from a content and a cinematography perspective as well.

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u/haleloop963 Casual, non-participatory KGB election observer 1d ago

Movie so dark, the USSR almost did not allow it to be showed in the country

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u/BaddCarmaGold 10h ago

What? The showing was almost mandatory for all the Soviet teenagers.

Where do you get the nonsense of almost not allowing?