Great film with a good message

Rating: 8/10 (16 December 2008)

Battle of Algiers was one of the best films in the class I watched it in. It seems to be just as relevant now as it was in 1965. I enjoyed the time line of the way the movie plays out, with the last few minutes played at the beginning and then the series of events that led up to it after. It really makes you think during the movie about how the characters got to be in the situations that they were in. All in all, I think this movie has an important message about what is going to happen every time you try and hold a certain group of people down. Any minority group restricted in the same way that the Algerians were is going to react in the same way that they did in this movie, and the way the French acted to control the algerians and label them all as terrorists seems to remind me a lot of America.