Do The Right Thing blog post

The movie Do The Right Thing was an interesting movie. One of the main points in the movie was racism. There were very few scenes in the movie that didn't talk about racism in one way or another. Normally racism is only shown between whites and blacks, however this movie showed how almost any racial group has issues with another racial group. This was best shown during the racial slur montage. It showed every racial group in the film totally dissing other racial groups. The things they said were very hurtful, and offensive. Then again that is why it is called a racial slur montage. The things said during that part of the film made me feel somewhat sad to know there is so much hate in the world, but it got the point across. I suppose the fact that it got the point across is all that matters.

Battle of Algiers Blog

The Article I read was interesting. It pretty much said that the movie The Battle of Algiers is thought to be helpful in solving the war in Iraq. It talked about how a screening of the film was held at the Pentagon, to figure out how to get information. This shows that the battle of Algiers, and the war in Iraq are very similar. The article talked about how terrorist tactics were used back then, and how they are used now. I agree that the two wars are very similar. Both of them had the use of terrorist tactics, and the use of torture to get information. In the film The Battle of Algiers torture was used to get information and slightly covered up. Previously concerning the war in Iraq torture was used, and attempted to be covered up. It seems that now America is getting desperate for other ways to get information, so that we are looking at a movie made a long time ago for answers. Personally I think that the film depicted the ugliness of war, and how not to handle situations, rather than a film to be looked upon for advice of how to handle the war at hand.