GLOBALIZATION

Globalization is more and more important everyday. We don't realised but it's there.
For example, when we listen to the radio we listen songs from all over the world. Maybe someone in Australia likes the same song you do.

Here in radios like Gaztea we can hear pop stars from Englan or other stars from all over the world.

FILM ANALYSIS: “Кавказский пленник” (Prisoner of the Mountains)

 

Film’s Datasheet

Prisoner of the Mountains is a war drama film based in the novel “The Prisoner of the Caucasus” written by Lev Tolstoi. It’s directed by Sergey Bodrov. He is also one of the main characters together with Oleg Menshikov and Jemal Sikharulidze.

Plot: Abdul Murat took two Russian soldiers prisoner because he wanted to change them for his soon who was captured by the Russians. One of the prisoners wrote to his mother, so she went to trade with Abdul. But they seek to escape and the villagers wanted Murat to execute them.

Finally the prisoners escaped. With it they started to kill people; a villager, the oldest prisoner and the soon of Abdul. So Murat decided to kill the other prisoner, but he let him alive because his daughter and he were in love.  

 


Historical context

 It’s important to know that the film was shot in 1996 during the Chechen War. We can understand better the film if we know about the problem between Russia and Chechnya.

Thematic analysis

The main theme of the film is the kidnapping. A man called Abdul Murat took two Russian soldiers prisoners and at the same time the son of Abdul is taken prisoner by the Russians. In our opinion kidnapping is not ethic, but in this case we can understand why Abdul did it. Like we have mentioned Chechnya and Russia are fighting and the citizens are suffering the consequences of the war. So in this situation the family is very important and the only thing that Abdul wanted is to take his son back with the family.

Cinematic analysis

The director uses different kind of resources to make the story more apealling.

First of all, he uses different planes.

Long shot is used to begin scenes when he shows the landscapes and mountains or to place an action. The medium perspective is used when characters are talking.Close-up is used to show the expressions and interior feelings of the character every time they are shocked.

He also uses different angles of the camera. Normal is the most used, but he also uses the high angle shot and the low angle shot when the prisoners are in the hole.

Conclusion 

Our film was in Russian and for as it has been very difficult to understand the content. But we have seen that the storyline was in favour of the Russians. All the information that we have found is also in favour of the Russians, we think that Chechnya need to have more freedom because everybody have the right to be free.   

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