re. QT

[Otto]

Klimov's "Come and See" is one of the most impressive movies I've ever seen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_See

2009/8/20 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> danke.
>
> At the climax of Quentin Tarantino's latest movie, Inglourious
> Basterds, which is set during World War II and which is concerned, at
> least superficially, with Jews, you get to witness a horribly familiar
> Holocaust atrocity—with a deeply unfamiliar twist. A group of
> unsuspecting people is tricked into entering a large building; the
> doors of the building are locked and bolted from the outside; then the
> building is set on fire. The twist here is not that Tarantino, a
> director with a notorious penchant for explicit violence, shows you in
> loving detail what happens inside the burning building—the desperate
> banging on the doors, the bodies alight, the screams, confusion, the
> flames. The twist is that this time the people inside the building are
> Nazis and the people who are killing them are Jews.
> _______
> only an American of this generation could come up w/ this. I challenge
> anyone to compare this scene w/ the atrocity committed in Klimov's
> Come and See where a whole village is put down in similar way.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMcwRzKRtVM (parts 11 and 12)  no
> subtitles but u don't need to know the words.
>
> rich