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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time Flyora sees the SS soldiers is when they're jumping out of a truck in the distance while half-concealed by the morning fog, all of which is accompanied by [[Main/HellIsThatNoise an eerie mechanical whistling sound.]] The fact that they're black silhouettes coming out of the mist gives them an appropriately demonic presence, like they're the legions of Hell emerging from the underworld.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time Flyora sees the SS soldiers is when they're jumping out of a truck in the distance while half-concealed by the morning fog, all of which is accompanied by [[Main/HellIsThatNoise [[HellIsThatNoise an eerie mechanical whistling sound.]] The fact that they're black silhouettes coming out of the mist gives them an appropriately demonic presence, like they're the legions of Hell emerging from the underworld.



** After gang raping her to their hearts' content, the Nazis just dump a woman on the road, not bothering to finish her off.

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** After gang raping gang-raping her to their hearts' content, the Nazis just dump a woman on the road, not bothering to finish her off.



* PayEvilUntoEvil: {{Subverted}}. [[spoiler: After the partisans capture the SS commanders, Kosach orders them to be burned alive where they stand, but the assembled partisans simply machine gun them to death instead]].

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* PayEvilUntoEvil: {{Subverted}}.{{Subverted|Trope}}. [[spoiler: After the partisans capture the SS commanders, Kosach orders them to be burned alive where they stand, but the assembled partisans simply machine gun them to death instead]].



* SurrealHorror: Despite being actually a war film and avoiding to show the most gruesome scenes, it managed to be classified as one of the most horrific films ever for its surrealistic and nightmarish atmosphere in depicting the horror of war. It even got ranked #76 in the [[http://www.timeout.com/london/film/best-horror-films#tab_panel_3 Time Out 100 Best Horror Films]].

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* SurrealHorror: Despite being actually a war film and avoiding to show the most gruesome scenes, it managed to be classified as one of the most horrific films ever for its surrealistic and nightmarish atmosphere in depicting the horror horrors of war. It even got ranked #76 in the [[http://www.timeout.com/london/film/best-horror-films#tab_panel_3 Time Out 100 Best Horror Films]].



* VillainsNeverLie: PlayedForHorror, the ''SS-Obersturmfuhrer'' tells the villagers [[spoiler:in the barn that they can escape if they leave their children behind. The two who escape are Flyora and a young mother with her child. The Nazis ''hurl the child back inside'' and drag the woman by the hair to a truck where they do... things to her and dump her on the side of the road afterwards. They also drag Flyora around and hold a gun to his head for a photoshoot, and then just dump him in the middle of the village and go. But Flyora and the woman are alive though they might wish they weren't.]]

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* VillainsNeverLie: PlayedForHorror, the ''SS-Obersturmfuhrer'' tells the villagers [[spoiler:in the barn that they can escape if they leave their children behind. The two who escape are Flyora and a young mother with her child. The Nazis ''hurl the child back inside'' and drag the woman by the hair to a truck where they do... things to her and dump her on the side of the road afterwards. They also drag Flyora around and hold a gun to his head for a photoshoot, and then just dump him in the middle of the village and go. But Flyora and the woman are alive alive, though they might wish they weren't.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Nazis have committed horrible atrocities against the Belarusian people. Flyora has lost everyone he loves and suffered unimaginable trauma. However, in the end, the death squad is killed to the man. The partisans resist the urge to stoop to the death squad's level of brutality, showing that they have retained their humanity even in the face of such evil. Flyora balks at the thought of killing an infant Hitler, showing that he too has maintained his humanity. He joins the rest of the partisans to continue the fight]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Nazis have committed horrible atrocities against the Belarusian people. Flyora has lost everyone he loves and suffered unimaginable trauma. However, in the end, the death squad is killed to the a man. The partisans resist the urge to stoop to the death squad's level of brutality, showing that they have retained their humanity even in the face of such evil. Flyora balks at the thought of killing an infant Hitler, showing that he too has maintained his humanity. He joins the rest of the partisans to continue the fight]].fight.]]
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* PaperTiger: The Nazis are terrifying and incredibly brutal when going against unarmed villagers who can't fight back. Then they get drunk and when they run into LaResistance who utterly kick their asses.

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* PaperTiger: The Nazis are terrifying and incredibly brutal when going against unarmed villagers who can't fight back. Then they get drunk and when they run into LaResistance LaResistance, who utterly kick their asses.
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Putting this back without the historical notes. Whether it's historically accurate or not, this is how the characters are portrayed in the film.

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* PaperTiger: The Nazis are terrifying and incredibly brutal when going against unarmed villagers who can't fight back. Then they get drunk and when they run into LaResistance who utterly kick their asses.
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Whilst no doubt satisfying to see such evil people receive their fate, this is not historically accurate. Death Squads contained some of the most fanatical Nazis of the war, many were highly trained.


* PaperTiger: The Nazis are terrifying and incredibly brutal when going against unarmed villagers who can't fight back. Then they get drunk and when they run into LaResistance who utterly kick their asses. [[TruthInTelevision This is literally like how the real life]] SS Dirlewanger brigade (who the Nazis in the film are based on) operated. They committed [[NightmareFuel unspeakable atrocities]] on unarmed civilians but tended to get their shit kicked in when going against the Red Army or even civilian militias.
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* DontDoThisCoolThing: ''Thoroughly'' averted. Part of the reason Come and See is so famous as an antiwar film is that it stubbornly refuses to depict war as cool, glorious, or having any redeeming qualities whatsoever. In Come and See, war is a living nightmare.

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