Review of Land and Freedom (1995) by Pavandeep S — 20 Oct 2008

An utterly engaging movie that tears down any melodrama for a more realized engaging film on the Spanish Civil War. The fundamental element of this film that gives off a humanism type beauty to it is the way it captures the elements of the human beings, their talk and their daily life together with their approach to a disaster such as this, war and split loyalties and at the same time, abuse by their powers, inside and outside who all want to make Spain a paradise.

I personally belief that films such as this really capture the political side really well as compared to just being politically absorbed but lacking any value whatsoever, due to the innate flaws in ideologies, the people affected and who prize these ideologies are more intriguing.