THE INTERNATIONAL DAY
September 21
OF PEACE
September 21
1) The students' essays "Films: Path to War or Path to Peace"
see at http://jovenes4ma.motime.com/post/678422
and here in the "Comments"
2) The students' essays on the films about the war "Lost City" (Cuba) and "El Salvador"
see on our Project Website at
http://www.acr.scilib.debryansk.ru/ruslat1/index.html
see at http://jovenes4ma.motime.com/post/678422
and here in the "Comments"
2) The students' essays on the films about the war "Lost City" (Cuba) and "El Salvador"
see on our Project Website at
http://www.acr.scilib.debryansk.ru/ruslat1/index.html
How the others celebrate Peace Day see
http://culturainglesaudi.blogspot.com
(wonderful Slide shows)
http://culturainglesaudi.blogspot.com
(wonderful Slide shows)
3 комментария:
Essay
"FILMS: Path to War or Path to Peace?"
by Shelkunova Marina
mar239knop@yandex.ru
Group 303
It is very difficult to represent our daily life without cinema. This is one of the most significant sources of information, amusement and pleasure. Cinema can show our real life and an invented one. Following the plot we pour into the action of the film and feel ourselves as a part of it. Cinema influences our life very much. But is this influence always positive?
It is not so. Our life is multifaced and cinema also is various: there are films about love and hatred, about happiness and grief, about piece and war. But we have a tendency today to exaggerate everything around us. So if we are happy then our happiness has no limits and on the contrary if we are upset, our sorrow is unbearable. Today it is very difficult to watch films about war because of abundance of blood, cruelty and pain. Film directors explain this saying that they try to make their movies true- to- life. But do we really need it? Of course it is a foolish thing to try to see things in the pink light where everything is magnificent but may be a little of goods won’ t be superfluous. Majority of us … oh no, all of us have to face with difficulties and injustices of our world in real life that’s why we want watching movies to see a hope for the best, to believe that everything will be all right, and that there is a place somewhere in the world where happiness, real love and calmness live together.
All of us want to have piece in our houses. That‘s why we must allow piece to penetrate into all aspects of our life including cinema. We won’t be able to run away from the truth of our life. I can be mistaken but aggression generates always only aggression. When you see how it is easy to kill a man you begin to think that a man’ life is so insignificant. But we must remember that murder is the horrible sin.
Nobody asks you to forget about reality: we can watch TV-news and be in the course of events, but watching films we should only enjoy it. May be then our world changs for the better?!
Essay
"FILMS: Path to War or Path to Peace?"
by Maxim Jackubowski
maxim31@inbox.ru
Group 303
It is common knowledge that we live in a very cruel time in spite of the fact that politicians are constantly convincing us that any conflicts should be solved exclusively amicably, in a non-weapon way. Notwithstanding, atrocious and terrific things still occur on our planet from which millions of innocent people have to suffer.
Thus, anti-war films have a great impact as being a means of peace-loving policy propaganda in so far as they give a harsh description of warfare exposing all its horrors. An anti-war film is perceived as having an anti-war theme. Some are war movies that show the negative aspects of war, while others satirize war in other ways. Many complex films may be seen as anti-war by some people and pro-war by others. Some seemingly anti-war films have been criticized as not truly being anti-war. They may glorify or appear to glorify that version of masculinity that emphasizes violence and action. Their contribution in this respect is sometimes enormous.
The still-harrowing All Quiet On The Western Front and Paths Of Glory are rare examples of early war films that dared to take an anti-conflict stance. This renowned, moving and powerful anti-war film based on Erich Remarque's pacifist novel depicts the horrors of the Great War from the point of view, significantly, of the German soldiers.
Paul, one of the main characters, and his friends have to endure day after day a non-stop bombardment. Eventually it all becomes clear to him: war is entirely pointless. All his friends say that they are fighting the war for a few national leaders whom they have never met and most likely never will. They are the only people that can gain anything from this war, not Paul and his friends.
The film does not focus on heroic stories of bravery as do so many other war stories, but rather gives a realistic view of the hell in which the soldiers found themselves. The monotony, the constant artillery fire, the struggle to find food are all shown in detail.
The innumerous examples of atrocity at war are given an exposing depiction in anti-war movies whose mission is to inspire to the whole human society that in the twenty-first century warfares must be got rid of as the survival of the past.
Essay
"FILMS: Path to War or Path to Peace?"
by Alexander Vinokurov
vespa32rus@mail.ru
Group 303
Vladimir Lenin once said that the most important kind of art is cinema. And he was really right. The appearance of the cinema overturned the world. It began to play the role of some indicator of the social life. Books, theater & art used to play this role before, but with cinema they became of minor importance. If earlier the cinema was used mostly for propaganda & entertainment, nowadays it plays a big role in the social & political life.
First of all we should remember that cinema can send for resonance of the society attracting our attention to the global problems of the mankind. And the main of such problems, in my opinion, is the problem of War & Peace. Nobody can keep aloof from this problem because the Peace is too frail to break it but, at the same time it is too difficult to reach it again. And the cinema successfully copes with its task of protecting the Peace. One of such films is “The Road to Guantanamo” which tells us about three young English Muslims hurrying at the marriage of their relatives in Pakistan & by coincidence found themselves captured by the American ARMY. And they occur behind the barbed wire of the Guantanamo Prison.
This film called forth the wave of interest to the fate of Iraqi prisoners of war all over the world & helped to lower down the influence of the American government at that region. As for me, I think that if we produced such a film about Chechnya, the problem with terrorism at that region would have already been solved.
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