The Battle

The critic writing for New York Magazine had a few interesting points. One thing that was interesting was how Yacef was basically trying to relive actual experiences he had when the actual battle was going on. This is good to know because it give the viewer a little more confidence in the sense that the director had a good source to know the actual events. But on the other hand, Mr. Yacef was part of the FLN, which would give the viewer reason to believe that many of the sense are biased towards the FLN because the main source of information came from an FLN leader. Also, i think one aspect the critic missed was perspective that since Mr. Yacef was an FLN leader it helped the movie lean more towards the FLN side. Which when I saw the movie thoguth the story had a more biased towards the FLN than the French, mainly because they were the "underdogs" in the story, and almost every story favors the "underdog." But I'm sure that Mr. Yacef had some influence in creating the slight bias. But overall the director did a very good job in creating a more neutral movie in just trying to the tell the story from both sides.