Wartime drama

Watching the first few minutes of Forbidden Games left me shocked, especially because it was so much less gory than modern war scenes, where dropping bombs create extravagant explosions that launch blood and flesh everywhere, and yet it still left me feeling uncomfortable by the end. I think I was caught off guard by the mass of people fleeing without getting majorly injured in any kind of graphic way, taking the time to carry their belongings with them even though that slowed them down, that I wasn’t expecting any kind of trauma at all to occur. This made the little girl’s actions seem even more surreal and shocking. I did not understand how her parents could die trying to save her, and yet she felt no emotion in having lost them but refused to let go of her dead dog. Maybe she didn’t know what was happening and the dog was a source of comfort for her, but I just kept thinking about how I freaked out when I lost my parents at the mall and how much more painful it would be to lose them in the way she lost hers. It seemed unnatural for her not to care and to see her so calm as she clutched the dying dog, and then follow her dog when it was flung into the river. Did she wonder about her parents and what had happened to them? The scene left so many questions unanswered about why she acted the way she did and how she will feel later on in life, and that might just be what upset me the most.