When I sit at the back of the class, I just felt a little boring when Pro. Larry Said it is a old movie. Because I never interested in the movie which shot before 1970. Like the movie ,SAMURAI 7, I watched before, It made me felt like I am an skull. Although the spirit of the movie had moved me. The black-and-white film never interests me.
However,after watching this movie, I just felt the power from this Black-and-white film.
The movie begins on a raid and then quickly dissolves into the story leading up to the raid. Ali La Pointe is one of the highest leaders in the resistance of French control in Algiers, a resistance structured by a hierarchy of anonymity so that no one tier of it can lead directly to the rest. The occupiers are forced to use arrest and torture in order to ferret out every member, and only through the most extreme activities are successful. Their success, however, hardly wins the overall war.
The Battle of Algiers is an amazing Neo realistic film. It is neither glamorous, with its grainy, rough, darkish look, it brings the movie to life. At times it feels like you are actually in the movie witnessing the events unfold right in front of you. With its use of non actors and with the dialogue mostly improvised and dubbed over, gives the film a raw feel. It was shot on location by Gillo Pontecorvo in war torn Italy. The setting it self is amazing, the building structures and surroundings fit this movie very well. Some even thought it it was a metaphor for the Vietnam War.
The Battle of Algiers is a war film based upon occurrences in the eight-year Algerian War against French colonial rule in North Africa. There were many scenes that were a little hard to watch because of all the people that were killed in the bombings while living their everyday lives. It was interesting to see how many men and women join together to seek revenge against another group. The director cleverly uses imagery to make the viewers see the insight of a terrorist mind. The attacks and battles are insane among one another, accusations towards the innocent.
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