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Siskoid

To start, I do find it difficult to look at documentaries like Last Men in Aleppo with a critical eye, as a piece of film making, because it deals with real tragedy, and I don't want to trivialize it by treating it like an entertainment. It uses no talking heads, no voice-over, and very little onscreen text. Its only real artifice is editing. We follow a group of "White Helmets" in Syria's besieged city of Aleppo, more or less documenting themselves, in the raw, spending their days digging bodies out of the rubble as the Assad regime's bombs continue to fall from the sky. It is a chronicle of people doomed by circumstance, knowing full well they are unlikely to survive for long, and yet finding simple pleasures where they can. The people we follow are for more the most part engaging and charismatic, and you might for a minute forget this isn't written drama because of it. But make no mistake, this is real, and fair warning, the film contains disturbing images. It's hard to watch, and it has to be. It's a damn humanitarian disaster. You have to feel something for these men, these families, these kids, or else we've failed as a species.

6 years 3 months ago

ntan

I've watched quite a few documentaries and biopics. I don't think I've truly been moved to hate anyone as much as I now hate Bashar al-Assad after watching Last Men in Aleppo. What an absolutely despicable human being. There's no way to politicize or spin this footage where he is the good guy. When guys are pulling dead babies underneath rubble and forced to hand them to their fathers, or when the camera literally captures bombs falling from the sky onto innocent civilians, you're not doing your job right. The doc did an excellent job of making the viewer as angry as its subjects.

6 years 3 months ago