MENAS 398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arabs, Ali La Pointe, Women In Algeria

• School: U of M
• Department: Middle Eastern And North African Studies
• Course: MENAS 398
• Professor: Noah Gardiner

Document Summary

Be sure to cite the minute marker for the 2-3 examples you use to demonstrate how the film portrays the french colonial presence in. In the movie, the battle of algiers, the french are portrayed as menacing colonizers who have stolen the beautiful lands of algeria away from the algerians and sentenced them lead impoverished lifestyles threatened by the presence of the french. The movie commences, at 01:31, with the audience viewing an algerian man who brutally beaten by the french military, where they used this man as bait to lead them to ali la pointe. Ali la pointe is an angry algerian man who devoted his life to rid his country of the french and make algeria for algerians again. Ali la pointe and his crew of rebels were discovered hiding behind a wall at 05:52, and they kept silent as the french military leaders ordered them to get out of the wall and surrender.