Franklin-Javier

Something that i have learned in life, for better or worse, is that empathy is not for the weak. While yes it makes you feel the joy that others live, but, most importantly, it puts you in the lives of anyone else, figuratively. This is what makes cinema so important to me, and what makes it the path i chose for the rest of my life. I know i keep saying this all the time but it is what makes it my favorite artform. "Men used to go to war," "This war will fix alot of things" or "Not my country, not my problem" is the sort of bullshit i keep hearing from time to time. To anyone who desires war, just wait until witnessing the worst of what human nature can accomplish, or when you lose your close ones or soak in a bath of your blood. I sincerily do not wish anything that happen to Flyora, the protagonist of Come And See, to my worst enemy (which excludes any politician currently in office right now). My parents didn't go through leaving their own countries from war and fascism just so we end up to having to endure their the result of their fuckass arguments that could've been solved with words and understandings instead of missiles and barbed wires. Come And See is everything that it needed to be. Cold, harsh, brutal, unforgiving. It is a hard watch, but a neccessary one. You can feel the bullets flying around, the smell of grass and fire, the sounds of screams of agony or of authority or the taste of blood or acid reflux. It uses long shots of the characters that are either  facing the results of a context that is way out of their hands or cheering at what they've been told to endorse. The old footage in my eyes, makes its story even more dreadful, because when you see it, you realize that Flyora's story is just a minuscule portion of what happened during the rest of WW2. The lack of cuts in between some shots makes us complicit in the on-screen barbarism and allows us to take the time to weep alongside the victims, while complating the horrors of the past. There is no escape for them, the neverending threats of guns, mines, nazis are everywhere, "didn't i tell you not to dig" like he said. It doesn't fall under the traps that many war films succomb to, because unlike those, Come And See proves that there is nothing to be gained of from these wars, no masculinity points to gain and, especially, brings NOTHING to be proud of. I may have other things to say about it, but i hope these sentences were enough to properly communicate my thoughts on it. It is one of those films you HAVE to see it at least once.

It really frusrtates me that i can't properly commmunicate how i feel about it. I've really never seen somthing like it before.