Film Analysis: The Battle Of Algiers

First off, this film did a brilliant job on reacting the actual events. The film, The Battle of Algiers seems to be a documentary because of the black and white. The film allows others to exhibit the violence that occurred during the time when the French colonial rule made an attempt to have Algerians stay under their dominance because they needed to feel superior. The French believed they offered the Algerians so many opportunities that they should feel grateful and stay a part of France. The main theme of the film is violence and a strive for independence. The film documents the techniques of the French military and how the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) unites to deploy Algerians towards their independence for the better. The main character …show more content…
The French must figure out a way to defeat the FLN and the Arab Algerians must find a way for independence without the cause of more violence in their country. Although, the brutality becomes too intense and when Ali sees the decapitation it adverts back to an agonizing experience that causes him to be more intrusive. There is a shameless and widespread abuse through the crime itself. The rampage conflict leads to, which itself bolsters and aggravates oppression that is already acquired in the structure of relationship between the native Algerians and the French people. The conflict escalates as the consequence of increasingly heavier retaliation between the two opposite sides. Then a horrible turmoil is created when the Algerians begin bombarding the police and army. In response, the French authorities engaged in corporate punishment by blockading the entire bombing the private areas of the native Algerians. However, the FLN did not commend that and used the same tactics they did which the French responded by suspending their legal rights. It continued on for them to call in paratroopers, who tortured, terrorized, the people who lived in Casbah, which was located in North …show more content…
They kept being cruel to the Algerian people because France wanted to scare them and they discredited Algeria thinking they would not do the same. The French thought being more aggressive towards the Algerian people would want them to stay under their government but, that not only made them want to be violent towards the French, it made the Algerian people face reality that they needed freedom to control their own country. Under the French government they were told what to do and invaded without any reasons. They were belittled by the ones who were suppose to protect and support them on the choices they felt that would better their population. However, that backfired on the French of their tactics that they gained from Germany during World War 2. The French army sought to regain its pride following their loss in 1940 in the hands of Germany. The actors in the film are not exactly acting as their characters, but themselves. They pour so much emotion into dramatic scenes that it is impactful and is imbedded in one’s memory of what Algeria went through during these times. Adding on to the film’s cinematic aspect, the black and white serves as a documentary since it was made only a few years after the Algerian War of Independence ended. A young person would be interested in the idea of what The Battle of Algiers has to offer but the

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