Thank You, But, That's Enough!

Before reading this post, please see the film "Battle of Algeria". I have seen this film and am still surprised about what "they are doing to world". This film won the Venice Film Festival Grand Prize and was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Screenplay (Gillo Pontecorvo and Franco Solinas), Best Director (Gillo Pontecorvo) and Best Foreign Language Film. Other awards include The City of Venice Cinema Prize (1966); the International Critics Award (1966); the City of Imola Prize (1966); the Italian Silver Ribbon Prize (director, photography, producer); Ajace Prize of the Cinema d'Essai (1967); the Italian Golden Asphodel (1966); Diosa de Plata at the Acapulco Film Festival (1966); the Golden Grolla (1966); the Riccione Prize (1966); voted "Best Film of 1967" by Cuban critics in a poll sponsored by Cuban magazine Cine, and the United Churches of America Prize for 1967.

We have a Persian proverb saying "don't fall from other side of the roof". Few among western people have complete and exhaustive perceptions about what is going on in the Middle East. Among many western people I know, only those who have lived in the region have correct perceptions about this part of the world. This emphasizes on the importance of qualitative view toward the Issue of culture. In "Battle of Algeria" director frequently appreciates the act of members of National Liberation Front (FLN) in killing French civilians. Attacking to coffees, bars and shooting to passengers in the streets is shown as a courageous and natural response of native Algerians to the way French government manages the country. Headquarters of movement are illiterate, single minded and violent. Ali la Pointe is a criminal radicalized while in prison and is recruited to the FLN by another fellow. He even couldn't write his name. His personality is very similar to al-Zarqawi who killed many of western people in Iraq and elsewhere but this time he was not perceived as hero!

I think this film was a part of French zeal of 60s to show their intellectuality. The name of Sartre is mentioned in film and French general says I like FLN member more than Sartre. After about a half century, I want to ask isn't the way FLN combated like what now Al-Qaida does. West should know that a small eror in estimations may cause great loss in another part of the world. I have not the theory of conspiracy but please note that before the intervention of west and also east, we had no al-Qaida here. These are western products. The illiterate heroes of "Battle of Algeria" have no place in our world but before they understand it, how many people will lose their lives, God knows.