The film's title is from the Book of Revelations, referring to the summoning of witnesses to the devastation brought by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Often shot directly at the boy or from his point of view, the formal quality of Klimov's film owes something to Tarkovsky's use of the camera in Ivan's Childhood, although the context is entirely different. His fresh face grows perceptibly more haggard as the film progresses, frequently staring straight back at the camera, as if challenging the viewer to keep watching or while holding his numbed head, apparently close to mental collapse. As he travels from initial innocence, through devastating experience, on to stunned hatred, in a remarkable process he ages before our eyes, both inside and out. It begins with him laboriously digging out a weapon to use and much changed at the end, he finally uses one. At the heart of the narrative is Floyra, both viewer and victim of the appalling events making up the film's narrative, his history a horrendous coming-of-age story. Through his images, the director stares uncomprehendingly at a world where lives are removed cruelly and without reason, if on this occasion not just one, but thousands. Poetic and very personal, its sense of shock anticipates the heightened anguish that ultimately reverberates through Come And See. Klimov's shorter Larissa (1980) is a remorseful elegy to his late wife. It echoes intensity found in another masterpiece by the director. Produced for the 40th anniversary of Russia's triumph over the German invaders in WW2, based upon a novella by a writer who was a teenage partisan during the war, the propagandist use to which it was later put - when the GDR was still in the Eastern Bloc, citizens were forced to watch this to warn them of another rise of fascism - does not impair its effect today at all. Scriven Come to Drown?, Christianity.One of the greatest of all war films, Klimov's stunning work stands amongst such works in which the horror and sorrow of conflict are made fresh over again for the viewer, left to stumble numb from the cinema thereafter. All search failed to find a trace of the missing man, until a little after noon the body was discovered in the water nearby, lifeless and cold in death."Īdapted from: How Did Joseph M. You may imagine my surprise and dismay when on visiting the room I found it empty. I withdrew to an adjoining room, not to sleep, but to watch and wait. A friend reported, "We left him about midnight. He was in serious depression at the time. Scriven himself began to experience poor health, financial struggles and depression his last years of life. To this day, no one knows for sure if Joseph Scriven's death was accident or suicide. He did not seek to be noticed for it, and his authorship was only discovered by accident shortly before his death.
Joseph wrote his famous hymn in 1855 to comfort his mother who still lived in Ireland. Scriven used his time to saw wood for the stoves of those who were handicapped or elderly. Joseph used the tragedies and hardships in life to empahtize with the elderly and poor. Tragedy struck again and Eliza passed away from illness shortly before marriage. Shortly after moving to Canada to become a teacher, Scriven became engaged to Eliza Roche. This tragedy coupled with difficult family relationships, caused Joseph to begin following the practices and teaches of the Plymouth Brethren. The evening before their wedding, Scriven's fiance drowned. He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin and was engage to be married. Joseph Scriven was born in Ireland in 1820. The Story Behind What a Friend We Have in Jesus