It's a great documentary with so many human messages from the start.
Its production values are very good and it's a well-made one.
Sacrificing, danger, fear, war, politics, life and death are among the few themes that you can look through this documentary with the film-maker.
There was another reason that makes watching this documentary hard for me, besides its disturbing imagery which was the fact that my corrupt government is behind all of these and is supporting Bashar al-Assad and its allies to crush Syrian people like this... It's very hard for me to even think about this!
We have so many problems in Iran with our government and they're doing these horrible activities abroad also.
Hope all we can live in a world without these dictators and these totalitarian governments someday...
Plot summary
Deep beneath the surface in the Syrian province of Ghouta, a group of female doctors have established an underground field hospital. Under the supervision of paediatrician Dr. Amani and her staff of doctors and nurses, hope is restored for some of the thousands of children and civilian victims of the ruthless Syrian civil war.
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February 12, 2020 at 12:15 PM
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Very hard to watch but it's a must-see!
Masterpiece of a hidden reality
Should be rated 12+ This is a paradigm of what war can do. What courage and persistence can achieve. Well brought out to us the ignorant mass.....Well directed and edited!
The Cave is brutal and honest, but not as human as its 2019 documentary complement, For Sama
The fact that I wasn't deeply affected by The Cave and won't think about it much again speaks more to the combination of having already watched For Sama and the fatigue of the death race and school than to a poor job by the filmmakers. As I learned in For Sama, it's upsetting to watch people trying to live and be happy in Syria as the regime attacks innocent people. Amani is amazing, and if one thing works really well in the film, it's the difference one woman made during crisis in Syria. My biggest problem with the film was that it didn't feel human - we don't get to know any of the victims or really even much about the workers, and instead feels more like scene after scene of pain and desperation. Not a bad movie, but I'd recommend watching For Sama and skipping The Cave personally.