How Come and See Answers the Baby Hitler Question (Film Analysis)

"The worst thing that evil people can do is to turn you into one of them." Brilliant!!

Florya is my vote for the greatest performance in cinema, it boggles my mind that a kid could convey deep existential horror the way he does. It feels 100% authentic and is frankly terrifying at times.

1/3rd of the Belarus' population was killed in WW2. The way the villagers are killed in Come and See is just 1/600 villages that were burned that way.

This movie really hit me years ago, I'm from belarus so knowing my ancestors went through something alot similar. For me to be here is always insane to me. They made this movie like this because so many people went through something like this. The message at this end is that anyone can do something so terrible.

I saw this movie at a live screening. After the credits rolled, the entire place was silent, everyone just walked out slowly. It was a silent procession after a rollercoaster of suffering.

I don’t know how anyone can say that any war movie like saving private ryan can be the best war movie when come and see exists, it shows the truth of war with no patriotism and glory to muddle the horrors

"No clue how someone came up with these ideas" when speaking about the barn scene - there were countless of such instanced waged by nazis. My great grandpa always told stories about what he saw in the war. One of them I remember well - it was a well full of kids's bodies

"The worst thing evil people can do to you is turn you into them", this hit extremely hard.

This and Grave of the fireflies are two of the most devastating films I have ever seen. Witnessing the fate of kids in these films, a very innocent part of me died with both of these films' endings. Thank you for analysing this one.

My father was exceptionally physically and mentally abusive to me and my other three siblings. He always spoke of how his father was an alcoholic, and his mother used to beat him with rose bushes (however the hell that even works...?). Whenever those long, intimate conversations with friends broaches that subject, I always make sure to communicate a motto I came with after suffering through living with such a man: "The hottest corners of hell are reserved for those who have had the worst kind of pain imaginable inflicted upon them, and then choose to inflict that pain onto others."

Hearing you say the words you did at 11:19 has me feeling very very validated. What an intensely moving notion. I loved your breakdown on this film!

The final Hitler poster scene really impacted me and was so jarring to the carnage the viewer just witnessed. The reverse of Hitler’s life signifies that no amount of brutality, revenge, or gunfire will undo what happened or will rewrite the things that culminated into WW2. There’s also so much controversy over humanizing Hitler in media and I think Come and See did it perfectly: both acknowledging Hitler’s humanity and not disrespecting his victims in the process

One of the things that has marked me the most in recent times, was when, out of morbid curiosity, i went down a rabbit hole of nazi accounts on twitter that i found deep in replies. All of them were so open with their hatred, but the one that affected me the most had a profile picture of the young ss officer in the scene just before he dies.
It really put things in perspective. This person saw the same movie as me, but he most likely cheered at every bit of suffering inflicted on florya and the population, and felt pride in the final speech before the germans were gunned down.
His hate is not abstract, not detached.
He can look at the most vivid face of pure suffering inflicted on a fellow innocent human, and his only reaction is to laugh.

I'm from the city of Brest (Western Belarus) and it crushes me knowing that a lot of people don't have a clue what was really happening 80 years ago at the eastern front.
The very title of this film is quite symbolical. Everyone should come along and SEE for themselves. See what humans are capable of. See the very core of what shall never be forgotten.

Its a great movie because it dispells that sentimental and illusionary notion that all those atrocities must have been committed by some deeply evil people clearly intent on causing the maximum suffering possible. The truth is that anyone can commit atrocities, ruin lives and cause untold amounts of pain, and many times even do it in full belief that they are in the right.

The image of the girl with the whistle in her mouth is forever burned into my memory.

I feel like films like this need to be required watching in this day and age. Many of us in America especially are so separated from the horrors of war that are so often glorified in our nation and our media. It’s easy to glorify war when you’re not around to see the horrors of it, and the impact on those just trying to live their lives. Great video!

A film everyone should watch once. But boy is it like getting dragged across concrete watching it. Hard to call it a good movie but it’s definitely a impressive movie with incredibly thought provoking matter

The image that has stucked with me the most is at the end when Florian reencounters the girl... Such a devastating image, so harsh and cruel.

As the brazilian philosopher Paulo Freyre wrote: "When education isn't liberating, the dream of the oppressed, is to became the oppressor". The kid grown up in a enclausurating and hopless world, the only thing he learned was violence and cruelty, the fact that, in the very end, he figured out in what he was becoming, shows how much he learned about said world, and himself.

The moment that stuck with me the most is his friends stepping onto a mine. Seconds before they were talking fondly. They were a plucky group of scavengers on a quest. Then boom. In an instant half of them are dead.