Such is the state of representation of eastern cultures, that while western world may admire typical aesthetics of these films, the native audience often wonders if their own culture is being represented in a fair way. While Globalization, in the cultural sphere has been accused of destroying native identities in favour of a new homogenized,…
Month: February 2009
El Mariachi 1992 (Robert Rodriguez)
Robert Rodriguez isn’t exactly a nobody now, but this is 1992 and Robert Rodriguez is indeed a nobody. The film was shot on 16mm and Rodriguez raised $3000 out of the $7000 budget, as a volunteer for experimental drug testing. The story is about a wannabe Mariachi, who is a guitar player. He gets mistaken…
Csillagosok, katonák (1967) a.k.a The Red and The White.
Another, and more widely admired film of Hungarian director Miklos Jancso, this film concentrates on a group of Hungarian soldiers supporting the Bolsheviks (Reds) against the Czarists (Whites), set in 1919. Not following any central character, this film goes on to depict the senselessness of war, no matter whose side one is on. this film…