when you recreate reality!

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2020)

I grew up watching this movie. where I came from it's considered as a nationalist artifact, it's shown each national and independence day. So for me, it was only a revolutionary and national film that depicts the cruelty f the french colonization in Algeria that I memorized scene by scene. it was only until recently that I decided to see the film for what it really is and getting a restored copy of it. After not watching it for almost 10 years, I tried to stay unbiased and take it for what it is, and to my surprise, I was in trance. it's one of the best movies ever made, why? Because it readapts the truth so meticulously it feels like a documentation of the reality itself. the film doesn't take sides, it doesn't try to give the right to any side on the expense of the other, this movie doesn't play ethics, it just shows the terror that goes on both sides and the story flow to the rhythm of these true events perfectly restaged, to the point it can be considered as a minute by minute reportage of the events. The war of Algiers was so eventful on itself, the Algerian revolutionaries so complex they didn't need writing and it was made 3 years after the Algerian independence so the memories were fresh, the feelings and terror still lived and felt, it's impossible to make such movie nowadays, Every scene is perfect and felt intensely. this movie is cinema witnessing history. perfection