Florian Gabriel
Made by Netflix, it has the potential (by that I mean a strong budget) to be great. But it is not about that. For this documentary, the budget is irrelevant because all the materials that this film is made of were made during those winter 2013-2014 days and nothing like budget, soundtrack, cast, filming crew, etc is rellevant...Everything is done in order to make the ordinary viewer to understand a little bit of recent history. This movie is about the feeling that transmits to its viewers and it is absolutely heart-breaking. It is so powerful, that after watching it, it make you think about it for the rest of your life. A truly must-watch, a perfect masterpiece. After 2 years of watching it 3 times, I am (still) waiting for something better, but I can not find any.
Timberlandet
There comes a time where you have to ask yourself, what does "one sided" in a conflict where unarmed people are getting mauled, shot and kidnapped by the police means? If you want to act like a detached "expert", yes this film had a one sided narrative, but even in conflicts there are truth. There are the will of the people, the right of the people, and the necessity for everyone to be heard. If we lose that, we have lost to tyranny, to corruption, to brutalization.Let's ask all the people here giving this documentary one or two stars what they would like to hear from the other side? How the crackdown of peaceful protests were justified. Bullshit. Violence is never justified.Watch this documentary. Just do it. You won't regret it.Freedom for the people. By the people. For Ukranie!
fontroy5
Extremely difficult to watch especially coming from my a perspective like mine. I am Scottish and support Independence and opposed the Brexit. Seeing this made me fear for my country if we do achieve the goal. I also can't understand how anyone could support the cowardly President who used the Berkut as a tool to quell the mob. My sweetie for ages been on about Ukraine and this finally made me understand. Russia has no right to what it is doing and the people in Maiden were not Nazis nor thugs, they were everyday people like you or me. I recommend this to watch but be warned it is graphic and it does not spare the details of what happened.
runamokprods
Filled with amazing and powerful images of resistance on both a personal and mass scale, this film is what can result when you have a revolution in the age of ubiquitous cell phones and personal drones. And it leads to a kind of combination of visceral immediacy and near epic scope in the telling of the Ukraine's 3 month long citizens' revolt against a corrupt, unresponsive and lying government that would have been near impossible a handful of years earlier. This is experiencing a revolt from the inside; scary, intense, exciting – a powerful emotional roller coaster. What it isn't, is an intellectually rigorous overview of the issues and conditions that led to the revolt, or what changes did and didn't result in the long term. Those are touched on, of course, but it's a fair criticism that's been leveled against the film, that the uninformed viewer (like me) comes away with only a schematic and simplistic view of the uprising. But, for me, that was enough. The power of this film is the reminder that it is still possible for people to come together from very different places, Muslims and Catholics, left-wing students and aging military men, the poor and the middle-class – and to band together to overthrow a tyrant with a remarkable limiting of blood-shed. It's a film that will make you shed a tear for the potential for good and for change in the world, and that outweighs whatever shortcomings the film may have.
AD
