The Ascent

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One of the most devastating films I’ve ever seen, every minute I felt helpless and the ending is just incredible, the way Soviet actors portray distress and anguish is unlike anything I’ve seen

“War Is A Price Tag, And Germany Had Cash To Spend”

The Ascent is a very tricky one to rate, as it exceeds in its storytelling through its questioning moral dialogue and its beauty to tell a story so tragic yet so compelling, however as much as I liked The Ascent, I can not quite say I enjoyed it, sure it was brilliant, beautiful and interesting, but black and white choice on top of it being only set in snow makes it hard to be fully immersed in the WW2 setting.

The Ascent is a movie I recommend, but to a very specific standard of people, those people being movie freaks who have nothing better going on in their lives (ME ME ME ME), as it’s cinematography is striking, it’s writing is beautiful, the characters while it’s hard to remember their names are so lived in, and finally the best part, the antagonist, my god, get that man the chair.

Plot 8.6/10 (good but nothing too special, how it’s handled is better than the idea)

Soundtrack/Score N/A (there is no music, not a drop of music throughout the whole thing)

Acting 9.6/10 (my god the acting from everyone was amazing, it just lacked some depth)

Cinematography 9.2/10 (the snowy passover shot was peak)

Character Development 8.8/10 (main 2 absolute amazing, a whole arc and more, the side characters, not so much)

Writing 10/10 (if I could bless a script with holy water, it’d be this one)

Ending 8.8/10 (confusing but still strong on the character arc bit)

Direction 9.4/10 (couldn’t have been done any better, unless the plot was more developed)

Overall 9.1/10

😭🥹

One of the most devastating films I’ve ever seen, every minute I felt helpless and the ending is just incredible, the way Soviet actors portray distress and anguish is unlike anything I’ve seen

“War Is A Price Tag, And Germany Had Cash To Spend”

The Ascent is a very tricky one to rate, as it exceeds in its storytelling through its questioning moral dialogue and its beauty to tell a story so tragic yet so compelling, however as much as I liked The Ascent, I can not quite say I enjoyed it, sure it was brilliant, beautiful and interesting, but black and white choice on top of it being only set in snow makes it hard to be fully immersed in the WW2 setting.

The Ascent is a movie I recommend, but to a very specific standard of people, those people being movie freaks who have nothing better going on in their lives (ME ME ME ME), as it’s cinematography is striking, it’s writing is beautiful, the characters while it’s hard to remember their names are so lived in, and finally the best part, the antagonist, my god, get that man the chair.

Plot 8.6/10 (good but nothing too special, how it’s handled is better than the idea)

Soundtrack/Score N/A (there is no music, not a drop of music throughout the whole thing)

Acting 9.6/10 (my god the acting from everyone was amazing, it just lacked some depth)

Cinematography 9.2/10 (the snowy passover shot was peak)

Character Development 8.8/10 (main 2 absolute amazing, a whole arc and more, the side characters, not so much)

Writing 10/10 (if I could bless a script with holy water, it’d be this one)

Ending 8.8/10 (confusing but still strong on the character arc bit)

Direction 9.4/10 (couldn’t have been done any better, unless the plot was more developed)

Overall 9.1/10