Good for a black and white movie.

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2019)

I watched this film in my High School social studies class, and thought it was very good. Besides the obvious drawbacks of being old, black and white, and in a language I don't speak the movie was very good. In my opinion it is a decent educational resource because while it did not provide many statistics it did provide some very good insights to how both sides felt during the conflict. Despite telling the story largely from the point of view of Ali la Pointe, it provided a fairly unbiased view of the conflict. It showed the violence on both sides in a way that truly showed that neither side was truly good. Instead they showed the conflict as what it was, a struggle between a terrorist group justifying it's actions as the people's will, and tyrannical oppressors determined not to lose yet another country.