Quote: What does the violent heart of revolution feel like? A visceral documentary from Maidan square in the violent Ukrainian winter of 2013-14.
Quote: What does the violent heart of revolution feel like? As the anger and hatred glow white hot is there a language its players use to speak to one another? And what becomes of the gun toting authorities when their fiefdom is destroyed, nobody is any longer afraid, and all things are ablaze? Just some of the questions addressed in this visceral documentary from Maidan square in the violent Ukrainian winter of 2013-14.
It begins peacefully, with flag-waving and chanting, but violence and anarchy sets in as protesters argue over the purpose and nature of their protests and ask themselves over and over “who is in charge here?” The police cower behind shields and lose all sense of order. Calls for peace or dialogue are drowned out by rubber bullets and explosions. People who want no part in the action are pulled in against their will. Orthodox priests bless both sides and offer reminders of the Last Judgement. An old-school Communist cries out “this is barbarism” as he desperately clings to a statue of Lenin. All notion of right and wrong blurs as the intensity and bloodshed reaches a stable frenzy. Can there be right and wrong where both sides only wish to maim and kill the other?
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