Come and See (1985 film)

“Come and See” underplays its hand at first, suggesting it is going to proceed utilizing haunting abstraction in place of literalism to be about more than it is and appeal primarily to the arthouse. It’s right when you’re convinced this is going to be the whole film (which would’ve been plenty haunting for this viewer) that “Come and See” unleashes, without getting into spoilers, one of the most sickening sequences ever depicted in film, a sobering and extended expression of repulsion towards any attempts at humanizing evil. By its end, you’re left as shellshocked as the protagonist. Difficult and powerful.

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