Easily one of the greatest films I've ever seen. When the lights went back on in the theater a few people were too traumatized to move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjIiApN6cfg
As J.G. Ballard has it,
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Though the undisputed genius of popular entertainment, Hollywood has
rarely made a successful war film. The realities of war, which Americans
have totally mastered while they are awake, run counter to everything they
hold dear when they dream. The best war films ever made – Rossellini’s
Open City, the Japanese Fires on the Plain and The Burmese Harp, and the
greatest of them all, Klimov’s Come and See, about partisans fighting the
Germans in Byelorussia, are visions of desolation, meaninglessness and
despair, qualities that are true to war but do nothing for the box office.
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If only I could see Open City on the big screen but unfortunately we have other plans for Saturday.
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