Watching it on YouTube seems like a really good way to cheat yourself of the experience of getting much out of it, though. Some of the visuals and situations and are just tremendously nightmarish visually, eerie, almost surrealist. I am tempted to say it is Russia's equivalent of _Apocalypse Now_, but I honestly like _Come & See_ better than Apocalypse Now or any US war movie I can think of at the moment. In fact, it's hard for me to think of Come & See as "just" a war movie; it "transcends the genre," as they say.
Seriously, if you can, do NOT watch Come & See on YouTube. I am tempted to repeat David Lynch's rant about watching a movie "on your fucking telephone" (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0 ) when it comes to viewing _Come & See_ on YouTube. Just imagine watching _Apocalypse Now_ on YouTube -- it seems kind of like cheating oneself.
The only version I know of in N. America on DVD is by Kino, and while the English dubbing on the Kino version is awful, the film comes through very unnervingly in spite of even that.
It's also a movie that'd be right up Chris Doss's alley (ahem!), I was blown away when I heard he hadn't seen it.
-B.
Mark Bennett wrote:
"Is 'Come And See' really that good? I've heard varying reports, but the good ones are GOOD."