3 Films To Awaken Your Conscience

Cinema has enormous value as an art, but it multiplies when we find, in films, one or more essential messages. Very often, we say that a film is good or bad depending on how it tells what it seeks to convey. However, through the retina of the spectator, the message remains attached to this way of staging it.

It is for this reason that we are going to recommend a series of films that raise awareness. Works that touch us thanks to their way of telling things but especially by their substance: when we see them, they leave on our palate a flavor of learning and invitation to reflection.

“4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days”

In a way, in recent years, the moviegoer population has been orphaned. The so-called realistic cinema had turned into a way of reflecting the vanity of managers, and transgression had been associated with the vulgar.

Inspired by works like those of Pasolini, some wanted to portray violence while forgetting that art always supports an idea or, at least, tries to convey something that has meaning and awakens our sleepy perceptions.

“To scandalize is a right, in the same way that to be scandalized is a pleasure, while the one who rejects the pleasure of being scandalized is a moralist”

-Pier Paolo Pasolini-

The case of “4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days” is radically the opposite because Cristian Mungiu does not intend to make this film part of his portrait. It is such a pure reality that it does not please anyone, since sometimes it does not bring valid conclusion or hope. Mungiu doesn’t have the slightest intention of making art and that’s how it comes to the best cinema.

This film is what it is. The interpretation is what does everything in the posterior analysis of the spectator. You will therefore see a film that portrays itself as “ugly”, rather disturbing but never pretentious. It is not made for those who are against abortion, for those who are for the right to choose, for the women who do it without seeing it as important or for those who see it as a hard time that will take a long time to come. accept emotionally. It is not made for anyone and it is made for everyone.

The director takes absolutely no moral position, he offers us reality and we interpret it. This film may seem to us to be an extreme case, foreign, odious, infrequent, badly treated or full of unnecessarily harsh details.

It doesn’t matter how we perceive it because regardless of our position, our consciousness will open. It doesn’t matter which path she takes. My conclusion was: how many “baby doctors” do we elect and compliment? Everyone can develop their own. The new wave of Romanian cinema is much more than cinema and needs the viewer to “participate”.

Hotel Rwanda

No one really knows how much colonization and its harmful effects can affect an area. Violent colonization even destroys the bones of the country which is “taken” to break it and never to restore it to its original reality.

Rwanda’s civil war will be remembered as an armed conflict that degenerated into a veritable genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus. The film reflects the end of an interminable clash in which the German and then Belgian colonizers played a decisive role in irreversibly aggravating the conflicts between the two groups.

The Belgians supported the use of an ethnic card in 1934, which gave Tutsis a higher social level and better positions throughout the administration. In a way, with this instrument, they created social differences that did not exist or that existed in a much more diffuse form.

Both groups came to see themselves as genuine “demons” and the tortures and abuses perpetrated ended up being truly cruel because they believed they were different as human beings. These horrors resembled those committed by the Nazis against the Jews.

The hatred of the Hutus for the Tutsis was consolidated and encouraged by the Belgian colonizers. A fact that invites us to reflect on the way in which all the illegal seizures or occupations of territories have serious consequences for the populations of the countries which suffer from them. Thus, compensation for damage by international organizations is an obligation in all these cases.

Brokeback Mountain

Imagine one morning you wake up and cannot love the person you love. This love will never change the lives of others, on the contrary; by living it with intensity and freedom, it will open doors and build new realities that are much more open.

It would be a good exercise in the imagination. In many parts of the world, this is already a reality, despite conventions and individual positions. In other places, this love can cause disgust for an entire society, exclusion or even the death sentence. The reason ? Love each other when we have the same genitals.

In this Ang Lee film, we have proof that love moves, shakes and upsets when it is real, no matter who feels it. Hatred is based on ignorance and this often stems from a lack of tolerance.

To eradicate this lack of tolerance, there is only one solution: the fight against those who think they have the right to judge the preferences of others. Ignoring these kinds of attitudes leads to unnecessary suffering on the part of people who feel love or do not have the same preferences.

This would be the case with the woman played by Michelle Williams, betrayed by a husband who had no choice but to take the path laid out by society to be able to stay safe, even if his feelings had been amputated.

This is only a sample of films that challenge us. Who question us. These questions do not have a simple answer because they refer to crossed forces and feelings. As a citizen of this place we call the world, you will have to choose your own option.