Diary Entry forThe Battle of Algiers
One of my favourite genres of film is the retellings of former world events which show the history and background to events I only vaguely know about. This is one of the best examples of this, showing the battle for freedom and independence, and the hardships which come with it. This film shows both sides and the lengths the Algerian people went to for independence. It’s a fantastic film and an important piece of history.
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The Battle of Algiers
"Não me trateis por cruel; e é tempo de que nós nos libertemos de um sentimentalismo impotente e irreal; é tempo de sermos homens, homens tão fortes e tão constantes no ódio quanto no amor. Sem perdão, mas guerra implacável a meus inimigos, pois esses são os inimigos de tudo o que há de humano em nós, os inimigos de nossa dignidade, de nossa liberdade. Nós por muito tempo amamos, Queremos finalmente odiar." (Mikhail Bakunin)
The Battle of Algiers
Müthiş bir sekilde gerçek görüntüleri aratmayacak şekilde çekilmiş bir siyasi sinema başyapıtı.
The Battle of Algiers
1st Journalist: Isn’t it cowardly to use your women’s baskets to carry bombs, which have taken so many innocent lives? Ben M'Hidi: And doesn't it seem to you even more cowardly to drop napalm bombs on unarmed villages, so that there are a thousand times more innocent victims? Of course, if we had your airplanes it would be a lot easier for us. Give us your bombers, and you can have our baskets.
The Battle of Algiers
“..𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘪𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵.” Watching this after seeing it on Ghetto Bob’s TV as he took a couple of hits with his feet kicked up on the couch. Atrocities are endless, and some great influential whirls tacked onto the construction of PTA’s recent OBAA (https://letterboxd.com/bulgogiboi/film/one-battle-after-another/). There are no winners in war, because either way, you are left with blood-stained hands and history, only to repeat it again in the future. How much blood and innocence must be shed to deem a revolution? A direct solution? A mediation of both parties to solidify a makeshift thing called “peace” for the public? Be it ‘66 or 2025. In LA or Algiers, the landscape before mankind could not have predicted the amount of blood seeped into the soil to birth a vicious cycle of pain and loss, no matter the year, no matter the season. You can see direct influences from the way a camera pans and looks on as our revolutionaries rob a bank and even to the soundtrack as Greenwood took note of the tinny piano taps that bubbles the tension in this film. Incredible maze-like sets create obstacles, I’m sure, in the filmmaking process but also as we dive deep into the roots of how revolutions are born. Pontecorvo never lets up the undying dread throughout until the very last shot. "𝘘𝘶'𝘦𝘴𝘵-𝘤𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘻?” The colonizer demanded a wall of white smoke, which diminished to an uproar of rebellion of rights. Be it then or now, a fight if a fight and we as a people persist. A tremendous achievement in cinema.
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