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This movie was DISGUSTING

posted 14 years ago by Knoxvicious
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I'm all for freedom and independence, but you don't go about that blowing innocents up, like the FLN DID do.

I was constantly sickended whenever they played the "sad music" when the FLN members got blown up or shot and constantly showed shots of babies and women crying...
But when those three women blew up those buildings? When they FNL shoot randomly at innocents on the street??? No sad music, no people crying, it was just what it was...
WTF????

How is that NOT propaganda???

I don't know, I just don't understand why there isn't any posts like this on here. What the French did was wrong also, but you don't fight the cause by hurting other innocents and involving KIDS in that war...
Why did they glorify what the FLN did?
I just don't understand it....

If you want to show how horrible that situation was, play the sad music on BOTH sides. Wasn't there a little baby eating ice cream in one of the shops an FLN member blew up?

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[–] asandaaron 10 years ago

There were blantant, extremely obvious closeup shots of innocent French civilians prior to the bombings especially emphasizing the fact that they were infact innocent and not to blame for the rebel's problems. You however decided to ignore this so that you could come here and say how biased the movie was, which it wasn't

[–] notofdisdimention 9 years ago

Nice point you have put..but one should take care of what the movie was about and what it is representing..it was about how the rebellion started and it took a form where france have to leave...

Like you have seen movie about freedom fighters ..example i can give about India-British thing..when you see the movie about freedom fighters it shows them as heros not as terrorists..

So here also the director showed many such scenes like
1. After the raid he shows a child crying alone and no one shows sm humanity
2. When there is a blast in the Arab place, focus was on the miserable dead

So it has lots of undertones here and there and afterall it is a movie which covers one side of a story

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