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the bang bang club

1. In general, what did you like and dislike about the film? About this film, I really liked that everything was way intensive, I mean during the whole movie I was expecting to see what would come next. Each time the bang bang club went to takes photos to a conflict everything looked real, like if you were actually seen it in the real life, this was a big achievement of the director. It also surprise me, I thought it was kind crazy,   how after they took their car away from the conflict it was like nothing was happening, with an aura of peace and abundance. Anyways, at the end I got a sensation of “me quedé para adentro”, a Chilean expression really hard to translate at least for me because it is really figurative, but it is something similar to “I have no word” and a lot of different emotions mixed so I still have to process everything. What I didn’t like about the movie, it is the way these photographer were portrayed sometimes. It was kind of sexism I think, usually the...
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Cry Freedom

1. Who was your favorite character from the film? Why? My favorite character from the film of course it is the main character Steve Biko. First because I really like Denzel Washington as an actor, and his interpretation in the film of Biko it is really astonishing, the personage he built as Steve Biko is quite fascinating. Also what I read about Biko´s biography it got me quite absorbed, for all he did for the black struggle during the apartheid. How he understand the importance of a Black Consciousness, that it was big deal the need to put in value the black culture and the need to do something and not just feel sorry as a part of the dominated group. I think, part of this was caught and showed and the film by this character. I also liked this character because I think that he was well represented, for sure it is a movie not a historical document, but a good work was done still. 2. What was your favorite scene from the film? Why? My favorite parts of the film...
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Kangamba

1. How does the film, Kangamba , show Cuban internationalism in Angola? Cuba after its revolution understand the importance of an international movement and not been isolate of the rest of the world, they were and island but the communism needed it to be spread. Fidel Castro in many of his speech talked about how close the Cuban and African were in the struggle they were facing and the big tied that exist between them, for the influence in their culture from Africa, the third world, non withe rich, the oppression from the imperialism and go on.. In the movie a part of these conception was showed, because the Cuban soldiers that went to Angola to fight weren’t just there for a superior order from a crazy commander, they went because they felt a connection and the need to give support to their brothers, as it can be seen in the film. But in “ Kangamba”, it is only showed how this support was in the army struggle despite the Cuban government also helped with doctors, educations,...
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