The Film---the Battle of Algiers

Being as the hardest war that France once encountered after the World War Two, the battle of Algiers possesses a high level of political factors. This film adopts the aesthetic style of Italian neorealism. The film of this movie is basically in the local real circumstance. Most of the actors are local people, and they are not the professional actors. This can make the movie more vivid and be real for the people to run back to what happened in that war. The ear is related to the fight between third country people with the western countries. The third world people want to fight for the independence from the colonization. In the movie, it describes a situation which a lot of people get together to defeat the invasion of France troop.

This film arouses a lot of political controversies in France, and it was banned for about 5 years. The topic of this film is controversial because it is hard to distinguish which the groups they stand for. Some of the people hold the view that this film is not good for France while others consider that this film possesses a great amount of political importance. It is necessary for people to watch this film. This film has been screened in many countries and accepts a great amount of honor and also critics. The usage of the sound effect plays an important role in this movie. When the women military begins to bomb the cities, it is full of music rather than dialogues in the movie. This can enforce the effects of the movie, and make the audience pay attention to the movie. “Gillo Pontecorvo had written the music for The Battle of Algiers, but because he was classed as a "melodist-composer" in Italy, it required him to work with another composer who was undertaken by his good friend Ennio Morricone” (Mellen 22).

Finally, this film plays an important role in the western countries, and it is worth watching.