Politics in The Third Cinema
To be clear every piece of filmmaking is political. It is in the nature of the medium, and as Chomsky said the medium is the message'. What I mean by this is that every film has an ideology. They all base themselves in a created world that maintains certain core values and would represent a certain view of different political issues. Whether that be a liberal, conservative, dogmatic or whatever type of view depends on the film. Many of the films we have views have been innately political, and try to represent the political state of each country they were filmed in, repsectively. In the films I have chosen to include in this essay, most of them float outside popular views throughout the United States especially and if anything would be to the far left. The films I discuss herein, A Taste of Cherry, Oldboy, In The Mood for Love and The Motorcycle Diaries discuss a wide array of issues and ideologies. I feel the most political overall, with......
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