Past And Present

Rating: 8/10 (10 June 2008)

I just recently saw this film, and it has become one of my favorite. This film is is about the French occupation of Algeria. It has become one of my favorite movies because it is very similar to the war in Iraq, about a foreign country occupying another while the countries citizens are rebelling against the occupation. A fact I have learned from my film professor is, in 2003 months before the U.S. went to Iraq the Pentagon showed this very film as a training video to high ranking generals, and President Bush. Pentagon officials were actually looking at the film so they can see what the French did wrong in Algeria. This is a great film because it relates to the war in Iraq, and the U.S. military is doing the same things that the French military was doing in Algeria. Though both the french occupation and the war in Iraq were fought for different reasons the tactics are the same.