Maidan

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Oct 30, 2015 Just finished watching the documentary Maidan on Netflix...What can I say...I was born on the Sverdlov street, which is a 10 minute walk from the Maidan...I grew up this city, playing near the fountains of the Maidan as a child, with my school friends... I trained as a weight lifter at the Dinamo stadium..I traded my best stamp collections in the underpass underneath it...my mum bought the ????????? cake in the best cake shop in the city there.....I walked those streets as a child until I was 15. What I never realised was how lucky I am to have been born and raised among people so noble, so brave, so determined that they would go and fight empty handed against a murderous wolf-pack of cowards (Berkut) to protect their future and the future of their children. I bow to the dead and the living...I bow to those who stood, no matter what, in the face of fear, the elements and death, holding hands and each other...wishing only to help everyone around them to be free... Today, like never before, with tears in my eyes I say: long live free, beautiful, and proud Ukraine, the only country where people will die before submitting to tyranny. I have never been prouder to have been born in Kiev...Ukraine...! Thank you. See more Mar 7, 2015 This movie does an amazing job of providing a witness to events - but fails to help us relate to or understand them! See more Feb 21, 2015 Static and extended fixed point recording without commentary of the Ukrainian revolution. From the organisation of the protests to the fleeing of the president, all told in a passive, observational way and always plenty happening. See more Dec 13, 2014 A somber meditation on a pivotal moment in Ukraine's struggle to emerge as a modern independent state free of corruption and Russian domination. This is neither prop-art nor propaganda, but instead a lens on the events as they unfold seen from the perspective of a bystander or witness, without voiceover narration or interviews. The director let's the scenes speak for themselves without any camera movement at all. It's almost as if the camera were a window. Warning: there is no dialogue, and no individual action, but rather long crowd sequences. See more Oct 11, 2014 the fixed camera position makes you feel part of what's happening. a bit more context could have been given on events. See more Read all reviews

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