¶ … Battle of Algiers
One of the more popular themes in motion pictures surrounds the conflict between ideas. These ideas may be of a personal nature, a professional nature, or in many cases, of such epic proportions that they are epic and larger than life. Many of these conflicts, at least at the movies, take on the idea of some type of revolution as part of an overall character -- an armed rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressors. The audience can relate to this because it is the "little guy" versus the "big guy." This is fairly typically in mainstream Hollywood -- "Braveheart," "The Patriot," and others -- all share the idea of a small group of people trying to overthrow a large, and usually evil, empire. One interesting movie, filmed in a more realistic mode, probably never meant for mass appeals, is the 1966 production of "The Battle of Algiers."
The Battle of Algiers is a historically-based movie centering around the events that occurred between 1954 and 1960 during the French/Algerian War of Independence. The film was Italian based, and released in French and Arabic. What made this movie so special was the style in which it was filmed, almost documentary like; the use of non-professional or unknown actors; realism to the extreme; and a very forward use of propaganda to show the social outrage of French colonialism ("The Battle of Algiers," 2010).
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