Russians at War. Russian soldiers begin to doubt their purpose — and fight only to survive
September 17, 2024
Russians at War. Russian soldiers begin to doubt their purpose — and fight only to survive
https://www.tiff.net/events/russians-at-war
by ubcstaffer123
8 comments
>Russians at War was born of a chance encounter between Trofimova and a middle-aged man on a train. That man, a Ukrainian named Ilya, was about to leave his family and go to war — for Russia. Intrigued by his story, Trofimova, though lacking permission, joins Ilya and his supply unit as they make their harrowing journey to the front line. Many soldiers fighting alongside Ilya are very young. Some believe they’re going to vanquish Ukrainian Naziism. Others go out of belief in cultural unity between Russia and Ukraine. Eventually, they all come to realize that everything they heard about the war in Russian media is false. They begin to doubt their purpose — and fight only to survive.
It’s disappointing this film immediately gets dismissed as propaganda. People are too scared to even view anything that challenges their perception. Years of dehumanizing the enemy unfortunately will do that. The film does not even need to change anyone’s mind. It just is interesting to have a different perspective on the war.
Every news conference every day that we have to endure more insane chest thumping from Russian officials should start with: “Right. So, remind us why any of this is even happening, again?”
This trash again…
This is a dishonest summary of the film. According to 7 film critics who’ve seen the film, it’s not clear that the author’s conclusion is the pointlessness of the war. It’s treated like a natural disaster which just happens to the soldiers. Never mind that all these soldiers joined voluntarily.
The author also made many statements in the film that downplayed russia’s aggression against Ukraine that has been happening since 2014. She also conveniently doesn’t challenge or fact-check lies and blatantly wrong statements in the film.
I wonder if TIFF wrote this summary or if they just received it from the author. It’s alarming how a Canadian organization can do the bidding of russian propagandists like this. They should have their funding investigated. I think we may have another Tenet Media situation on our hands.
It looks to me like there are very few reviews of it so far, so hard to tell exactly what it is, though it definitely seems to neglect any Ukrainian narrative. On the one hand, if it honestly depicts how Russian soldiers feel, thats of value, but if it works like propaganda, and something justifies the war and makes you feel sympathy for people that have invaded another country, – that’s bad.
Turn those guns right around, guys.
Ill watch it when its free but bottomline is russia shouldnt be in ukraine committing crime after crime so no sympathy and even more , contempt that russians do not take their country back especially after wagner boss mutiny , it showed the millitary opened the door for them .
8 comments
>Russians at War was born of a chance encounter between Trofimova and a middle-aged man on a train. That man, a Ukrainian named Ilya, was about to leave his family and go to war — for Russia. Intrigued by his story, Trofimova, though lacking permission, joins Ilya and his supply unit as they make their harrowing journey to the front line. Many soldiers fighting alongside Ilya are very young. Some believe they’re going to vanquish Ukrainian Naziism. Others go out of belief in cultural unity between Russia and Ukraine. Eventually, they all come to realize that everything they heard about the war in Russian media is false. They begin to doubt their purpose — and fight only to survive.
It’s disappointing this film immediately gets dismissed as propaganda. People are too scared to even view anything that challenges their perception. Years of dehumanizing the enemy unfortunately will do that. The film does not even need to change anyone’s mind. It just is interesting to have a different perspective on the war.
Every news conference every day that we have to endure more insane chest thumping from Russian officials should start with: “Right. So, remind us why any of this is even happening, again?”
This trash again…
This is a dishonest summary of the film. According to 7 film critics who’ve seen the film, it’s not clear that the author’s conclusion is the pointlessness of the war. It’s treated like a natural disaster which just happens to the soldiers. Never mind that all these soldiers joined voluntarily.
The author also made many statements in the film that downplayed russia’s aggression against Ukraine that has been happening since 2014. She also conveniently doesn’t challenge or fact-check lies and blatantly wrong statements in the film.
I wonder if TIFF wrote this summary or if they just received it from the author. It’s alarming how a Canadian organization can do the bidding of russian propagandists like this. They should have their funding investigated. I think we may have another Tenet Media situation on our hands.
Source: https://kyivindependent.com/is-russians-at-war-propaganda-we-asked-7-people-in-film-who-saw-it/
It looks to me like there are very few reviews of it so far, so hard to tell exactly what it is, though it definitely seems to neglect any Ukrainian narrative. On the one hand, if it honestly depicts how Russian soldiers feel, thats of value, but if it works like propaganda, and something justifies the war and makes you feel sympathy for people that have invaded another country, – that’s bad.
Turn those guns right around, guys.
Ill watch it when its free but bottomline is russia shouldnt be in ukraine committing crime after crime so no sympathy and even more , contempt that russians do not take their country back especially after wagner boss mutiny , it showed the millitary opened the door for them .