Beauty and terror are two words that can be associated with peace and war, security and fear, comfort and devastation, serenity and distribution. Peace is a necessary requirement among all nations because its based on a system of just and truth. War has always been a motivation among nations to seek authority and power, some see it as the mechanism of survival and a fullfilment to humans desire of violence, others see it as violent armed conflict between two political units that share conflicting interests. It’s a constantly changing phenomenon in human history, its increasingly frequent, virulent and costly in some periods than others. The devastating impact of war on the human’s political, social, economical, cultural and psychological issues increases with the advancement of
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The ‘realness’ will be evaluated through examining the way the city and characters were depicted as well as analyzing the cinematic techniques employed in each film.
One of the most influential films of Italian history is the 1954 neorealist movie Rome Open City by Roberto Rossellini. He is one of the extraordinary directors and screenwriters of the late 20th century that incarnated the spirit of Italian liberation. The adventure and the struggle for freedom is powerfully conveyed through the characters, for instance Pina, the tough man’s soul in a woman’s body translates her heroism, strength and power through her intensifying face expressions that translates a unique story of women during war. Her quest for survival of her and the people of her country is beautifully tailored in the scene of her death. The film spoke of how people experience the tragedy of war through displaying scenes of the injured, the humiliated, the tortured and the oppressed. The title raises a question of “openness”, which contradicts with the city’s situation at war; the city is segmented into fourteen sectors, which
The ‘realness’ will be evaluated through examining the way the city and characters were depicted as well as analyzing the cinematic techniques employed in each film.
One of the most influential films of Italian history is the 1954 neorealist movie Rome Open City by Roberto Rossellini. He is one of the extraordinary directors and screenwriters of the late 20th century that incarnated the spirit of Italian liberation. The adventure and the struggle for freedom is powerfully conveyed through the characters, for instance Pina, the tough man’s soul in a woman’s body translates her heroism, strength and power through her intensifying face expressions that translates a unique story of women during war. Her quest for survival of her and the people of her country is beautifully tailored in the scene of her death. The film spoke of how people experience the tragedy of war through displaying scenes of the injured, the humiliated, the tortured and the oppressed. The title raises a question of “openness”, which contradicts with the city’s situation at war; the city is segmented into fourteen sectors, which