Romania hears you loud and clear.

Rating: 9/10 (12 December 2010)

This strongly reminded me of the Romanian Revolution in Timisoara in 1989, so it was well received, especially by me. It did pose a strange (yet convincing to some) justification behind people who bomb public areas to make a statement. Side note on the special effects- they were extremely realistic, I can imagine that it would be the equivalent of today's Avatar status CGI. This film had a LOT of thought put into it, acting was convincing especially because it was done with people that indeed participated in the revolution in Algiers. On a historical note, whole thing that was going on with France was extremely hypocritical considering that France had their own revolution against the high ruling class, so it's rather interesting to see them acting like the ruling class over another COUNTRY and find absolutely nothing wrong with it. As far as the ending goes, I can see how it promotes peaceful protest, in the end bombs didn't solve the problem. One of the people I saw this with commented that if it wasn't for the violence beforehand, there wouldn't have been a peaceful revolution in the first place... However I'd reference the Romanian revolution. It was peaceful on our side, yet the communists did not only respond with rifle fire upon the protesting crowds, but also made use of tanks and killed many more that way. I love this work of art and I can totally see why it's one of Spike Lee's favorites.