The biggest failure of this film is that it is too real, so real that the senses of ordinary people cannot accept it. The violence, blood, killing and cruelty in the film have been cruel to the point of being crushed. What is even more frightening is that it actually exists in history, which is even more horrifying.
I always felt that I was invincible to this kind of film, but I didn't expect this film to make me physically uncomfortable and even feel sick.
I think the film that can rival this movie is probably "120 Days of Sodom", which has been blocked and unblocked a few years ago.
So this is why I don't recommend everyone to watch it, but I want to write something, because such a movie that is more frightening than a thriller can really arouse mankind's cognition of history?
The background of the film comes from an adaptation of a true historical event - the Warren Massacre.
I only heard about this massacre because of this movie, and there is very little in history. The lack of information is understandable, because the massacres that occurred during the war years were unrecorded, and some people may even know how they died.
Warren is a place name in northwestern Ukraine on July 11, 1943, the day Ukrainian nationalists attacked a Polish village in the Warren region of western Ukraine in the name of clearing out hostile elements. Poles living in more than 150 villages and towns fell victim to Ukrainian nationalists.
Scholars who study the "Warren Massacre" believe that Ukrainian nationalists and Ukrainian rebels used at least 125 ways to kill peaceful people throughout the massacre. Not only were Poles and other non-Ukrainians murdered, but also many Ukrainians who were unwilling to cooperate with Ukrainian nationalists. Polish historians generally believe that the "Warren Massacre" caused at least 100,000 unnatural deaths, of which 60,000 were Polish.
The film begins with a grand wedding, which is the background of the director's intention to explain the conflicts of the famous family. At the banquet, priests and villagers began to talk about contradictory remarks about ethnic groups, accusing Ukrainians of overemphasizing nationalism. At the dinner table, Ukrainians believe that Poles are oppressing Ukrainians and are squeezing their living space.
The wedding also ended after the Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews took the last big group photo. At this time, this group photo also became the last light of the peaceful coexistence between the three famous ethnic groups.
For the next two hours of the film, the director truly restored the hellish killing scene to me.
Gouging out eyes, skinning, beheading, cutting hands, beheading, dismembering five horses, naked shooting... Ukrainians used all kinds of methods in the brutal massacre of Poles. What is even more terrifying is that the pictures do not shy away from these cruel The lens is so real it's disgusting.
You know, at the wedding at the beginning of the film, it was explained that the Warren area is a place where Poles, Ukrainians and Jews live together. The Polish heroine is also married to a Ukrainian, but the neighbors who were drinking and chatting together yesterday ended up being separated from each other. One day must kill him. The killing under this racial fanaticism is incomprehensible.
I have never been able to watch the whole movie quietly, and even I can't describe the bloody and disgusting scenes in the film in words.
After watching it, I kept thinking, are films like "Warren" and "120 Days of Sodom" really suitable for existence in today's society?
There are not many massacres in history. The German Nazis massacred 6 million Jews; the Hutu radicals killed nearly one million people in Rwanda against the Tutsi; the Ottoman Empire implemented a brutal genocide policy against the Armenians, Caused the death of 1.5 million people; including the Nanjing Massacre that we are familiar with... Behind these tragic historical events, there is a lingering dark shadow for the survivors.
Maybe history does need to be remembered and reflected on, but to be honest, after watching a film like "Warren", I feel that it is no longer like a film, but a sharp knife, cutting the body of history open , I only saw the bloody scene of the tragedy, but I didn't have time to remember the painful lessons of the war.
How many film critics recommend this film because of the brutality and bloodiness of the picture? But in fact, whether artistically or narratively, "Warren" is difficult to call excellent. The director only wanted to restore the war situation, but made the film a running account without depth and art.
Many excellent war films about the Holocaust not only restore the brutality of the war, but also shock people in terms of narrative, footage, editing, acting and soundtrack. For example, "Schindler's List", "Rwanda Hotel", "Nanjing Nanjing", etc., the director did not deliberately render those cruel and bloody pictures, but every viewer can be deeply shocked by the characters and stories in the film .
In the film "Warren", it is just cruel, but there is no emotional story. Are we really so numb that we need to remember the painful lessons of history through our direct senses?
The progress of human civilization is a long road, and the contradiction between races has not completely stopped until now. There are still reports of ethnic conflicts breaking out in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America from time to time in the news. This is a problem left over from history, and the concept of equality between human beings is still just empty talk in many backward regions.
History needs to be remembered, but it is imperative that we do not repeat the mistakes of history, and do not let the racial conflicts in today's society become a history that human beings need to cherish and mourn in the future.
In Poland, the Warren Holocaust monument reads: If I forget them, God, please forget me too!
Yes, that kind of tragic memory cannot be forgotten!
But I think there is a kind of relief, which is to know how to reconcile, how to reconcile with the perpetrator, how to reconcile with history, and more importantly, how to reconcile with yourself.
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