Mediterranea depicts the Africans’ lives as migrant workers. Although it is a film, it still deals with real life events and does a very good job in showing the realistic version of Africans lives. African immigrants tend to be portrayed as foreign outsiders. I think in this film, both Ayiva and Abas worked really hard …
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Week 2 Learning
Paisan was obviously a very emotional look at the postwar period and the events that affected the Italian people towards the end of the war. The movie really expresses the way Roselini feels about his home country. Especially in the sixth episode, I feel like the psychological effects of the war are really clear. Like …
Week 1 Learning
From Week 1 I found it really interesting that between the 1940’s and the 1970’s, Italy had the largest film market and people loved going to the movies. And the Catholic Church contributed largely to the Italian film industry by opening cinemas across the country. But not only was this to support their citizens but …