The film did not judge anybody. It just watches and tells the event as it went down. Torture happened terrorism happened, but the film does not make judgments. There are no good-guys or bad-guys in this film. Merely people at opposite sides of a conflict.
anything that does not provide your usual stereotyped dehumanized monsters as terrorists who hate people just because of their "sheer goodness" will look like trashy propaganda to you..
shareAll media is propaganda. If we chose to only watch the programs that reinforce what we already believe, we become puppets being led (elections are won by bumper sticker slogans that can be easily repeated). I try to watch and listen to shows that have a different opinion so I can empathize instead of demonize those I don't agree with. But hey, that's just me.
shareTop comment. For most people, reinforcing their stereotypes is why they watch. Anything else is derided as disgusting or outrageous because most people don't like to be challenged.
People hear and see only what they wish to hear and see.
I have a movie that's more up your alley, OP.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092854/
You seem to have missed the point of the movie. Some people here say nobody is wrong in the movie. That is not the point. Everybody is wrong. Did you see the end? The revolution won because...well, because. The French did not lose. The FLN did not really win. Both sides got sick of relatively ineffective violence. One of the FLN even says terrorism and violence don't really do any good. Well neither does occupation of foreign soil just because you are a stronger power. Whether the director was a marxist--which he was--is irrelevant. Marxism is about money--not violence. In the news conference the General says "We all want France in Algeria." He was right. France did, the United States did. The only people who wanted France out were the people who lived there. Or at least the ones who lived in the old part of town, away from the sea.
sharethe film makes it very clear that the Algerians lost the armed struggle and gained their independence through peaceful demonstrations.
so, quite the opposite of what you are claiming.
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That's all this film is