C2 Section C: Ideology (Conflict)

Key theme throughout all 3 films is conflict.

Film form

Cinematography

Mise-en-scne

Camera work

    - Shot types

    - Movements

    - Angles

Cinematic technique of freezing to create dramatic effect

Sound

    Realism from diegetic sound

    After the bombing, the director wanted you to feel sorry for Algerians by using non-diegetic sound.

The film is new-real style as it shows the events after the bombing and the rioting.

Battle of Algiers

    The films is about political and social struggles. Saadi Yacef was the Algerian revolutionary leader who fought for his countries liberation from French colonial rule. French were known for not being kind to Algerians. Saadi also helped Gillo to create the 'Battle of Algiers'. Yacef starred as the revolutionary character. The film explores anti-colonial struggles from freedom fighters as Algeria did not want to be controlled by Colonized government. Algerian people are controlled by French but do not have same opportunities as there is lack of work, lack of education and a higher rate of poverty. French people did not accept the message of the film because it made them look bad. The preferred reading of this movie is that the French are bad. 2 opposing ideologies as it was seen as anti-French propaganda (persuade people to believe a certain view.)

The documentary-style film became a textbook guide to how rebels should act against an oppressor.

Guerrilla War which was unconventional. 

    The oppressed multitude will eventually triumph because their cause is just. The Battle of Algiers documents the Algerian revolt against the French in 1954-1962 and the armed insurgency against the French colonial powers in Algiers. The Battle of Algiers also explores the roots of anti-colonialism violence in imperial exploitation and suppression while exposing the shortcomings of torture and repression in dealing with the aspirations of colonized populations. 

Flashback as the characters eyes went blurry and there was a dissolve. Flashback set in 1954 however the opening was set in 1957. A dissolve means a change in temporal diegesis (time & location)

French were resorting to barbaric methods of execution that were used in the 1700's.

Lahadi Jaffer was the real leader of the rebellion.

5 months later:

-Children are dirty and living in poverty

-Lack of jobs and money resulting in lack of food

-No education means a lot of people can't read

April 1956:

- Children attacking man because he is drunk when it was forbidden to drink under Muslim law

- FLN are setting up to battle the French. It is an organization that are followed by many Algerians in Casbah.

"10:32" suggests it was based on facts rather than randomized.

Algerians sabotaged their own people if they broke the law. In the scene where the police were searching, members of the public all came together to eliminate a drunk/junkie from the street as it was forbidden.

Has no star or no main character.

Directed by Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo.

- Set in 1950's

- French=military uniform

- Algerian= Poverty, weak, helpless

- Algerians were forced under a strict regime

- close ups to capture emotions

- extreme close ups to capture detail of hands on head

- Aeiral estabishing of Algeria

- Hurt locker

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Ideology: Value system (political, social, historical)