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In Reply to: RE: I did a double take when I saw your comment that there were only 4 user reviews. posted by Road Warrior on October 22, 2020 at 06:52:26
I can't wait for another night... I wait till my wife retires, and spend 40-50 minutes with it... it was more last night, I just didn't have strength to stop it - mother visiting the hospital episode.
Thank you again for mentioning it. I am going to download the book, it's been long time.
BTW, perhaps a good companion book would be "In the Trenches of Stalingrad" by Viktor Nekrasov, take a look if you have not read it.
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but I can't honestly say my eyes were dry either throughout that hospital/graveyard episode. Very, very, powerful scenes.
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Edits: 10/22/20
Since I finished watching the film, I can't stop thinking about it and its characters and situations. I also read some critical articles on it, which I invite anyone interested to do also.
Just a couple of points here... one - Grossman draws direct parallel between nazism and communism. Among the Russians whom I know, this is the subject of endless discussion. I, for one, totally agree with Grossman, that the two systems were basically the result of the same ideology.
The other interesting point concerns the result of the battle - instead of the frequently presented beginning of liberation, to Grossman (I agree with him here too) it was the conclusion of total enslaving of the soviet people.
After the battle power of Stalin and his henchmen, their grip on the population, have reached their pinnacle.
The film leaves out some significant chapters, those dealaing with the German concentration camps. These are also incredibly important, but perhaps were edited due to the overall size of the work.
The victory resulting in total enslavement of the Soviet people makes perfect sense. I had never thought of it like that. Agree that the left out content was a decision based on available resources to the film makers.
Grossman's story, in regard to the writing of the book, and its eventual publication after his death, would make one Helluva movie.
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