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SYGGRAFEAS TOY VIVLIOY "KINHMATOGRAFIKOS ANASTOXASMOS"
Author of the book "Cinematic Reflection"
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The Old Oak (2023)
The Old Oak, Ken Loach, 2023
Two devastated communities meet in an abandoned mining village(1) in northern England. One by the closure of the coal mines by Thatcher's disastrous neoliberal policy and the other by the Islamic State, Thatcher and the Islamic State one and the other face of destruction, Syrian refugees on the one hand, occupying the abandoned matches of the miners, and some reactionary xenophobes on the other hand, on the one hand the destruction of Palmyra and the cultures of the Middle East and on the other hand the deindustrialisation of Northern England.
The village pub, which hardly remained open, functioned as a unifying and reconciling public space thanks to the sensitivities of its kind-hearted owner Tommy Joe, Syrian refugee Yara, and some solidarity workers who found themselves in solidarity with their friends and their racism. Because this solidarity, which is not charity, is the participation of all. "When we eat together, we are together," says Tommy Joe from his time as a miner, and Yara repeats it when soup kitchens are organized in a pub hall.
In "Go Back to Your Country," Yara calmly replies, "That's what we want." "This beauty makes you hopeful, hope takes strength and faith."
Fiction, with elements of reality, ends with reconciliation.
(1) In March 1984 the British Coal Agency announced the closure of 20 mines and the reduction of annual production. 20,000 miners found themselves without work. The National Union of Mineworkers reacted immediately. A strike was decided. February 1979, preceded by a 9-month strike period, was the most important month in the history of the British labour movement since 1926 On 4/5/1979 Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister. Implement policy neoliberal views. There was integration between Thatcher and the trade unions with an uncompromising stance on both sides. During the miners' struggle with the conservatives, the state used every means at its disposal. The Thatcher government passed a law amending Article 6 of the Social Security Code which provided that "Miners' children and wives are no longer entitled, as in the past, to welfare benefits during the strike." The strikers lived with the support of the solidarity workers. After 12 months and the use of force by the police, the strike ended. The government closed 25 mines, instead of the 20 originally planned.
Kalavryta 1943 (2021)
KALAVRYTA 1943 - ECHOS OF THE PAST - echoes from the past
It is a film based on a script - fiction, with historical inaccuracies, possibly deliberate to provoke discussions and projection of the film, as it happened, or because it was demanded by the financiers in the context of questioning and de-dying from the burden of crimes and deincriminating the German, Nazi conquerors.
It reproduces the historically false, German view of retaliation, which is also linked to the refusal to grant German reparations and the repayment of the forced occupation loan that to some extent shakes up and promotes.
It is not a historical film beyond its Greek title and it did not manage to be a conciliatory and anti-war film
Otherwise cinematically perfect film, with excellent actors, but missing scripts. It does not attribute the emotions of the horrible crime, the transport and burial of the dead at night the excavation of the tombs with the hands of the women who had just survived.
Kalavryta is projected on the inside that they do not need it, but it will not be the same when the film comes out, if it comes out, on the had just survived.
Kalavryta is projected on the inside that they do not need it, but it will not be the same when the film comes out, if it comes out, on the outside, because it will come out with another title.
"The past is never where you left it."
"How to love life when you don't have a childhood."
Conclusion "We will never forget and they will not let others forget."