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Cinema in times of war crimes

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Cinema in times of war crimes

In the dawning post-cinema age, we are increasingly realising the importance of curated film offerings. Particularly in view of the completely exuberant offerings on the relevant streaming platforms, whose algorithms fail again and again despite constant monitoring, one is pleased about cinematic programmes whose compilation is based on human care and genuine enthusiasm. I recently had the opportunity to see, in the series called "Imagination illimitée" at Stadtkino , the wonderdul early animated film "La planète sauvage" (1973). In the almost psychedelic fantasy world, enchanting with beautiful colours and fantastic mythical creatures, the people of the tiny, humanoid Oms meet the Draags, who are a hundred times larger and look classically like aliens. Conflicts quickly arise due to the hierarchies and exploitation relationships: the Oms are allowed to serve as pets, but if they multiply too much they are exterminated like vermin (what a life-despising word!). After several collisions, failed escape attempts by the Oms and much suffering on both sides, a solution to the conflict is found after equal communication, which consists of a strict separation of the habitats. The possibility of reconciliation in the indefinite future is alluded to, as individual exponents of the now separated conflicting parties are still connected amicably via telepathy. The events in Martin Scorsese's latest film "Killers of the Flower Moon" are more drastic, as they are more true to life for us. This conflict also arises from different positions of power: Unlike the fictional events in the the French-Czech fantasy world
the plot of the 2023 feature film is based on the proven and now well-documented mass murders of the Osage Indians by the white immigrants. Lured by the gigantic oil fields newly discovered in the 1910s to 1930s, thousands of white migrants moved to the border region of Oklahoma and Kansas and infiltrated the culture and infrastructure of the previously displaced Osage Indians with the eager assistance of the United States government and administration. Not too much can be revealed: But the profound likelihood of a happy ending beyond selective
scapegoat trials will be obvious to anyone who has studied the history of the USA. In good American style, the film glorifies the long-awaited crackdown of the police state at the end of the plot, here solely in the service of justice. Systemic problems of oppression and marginalisation are addressed - but a possible solution to them through an egalitarian, social democraticstructured social democratic community. In view of current events on our globe, ranging from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to the Middle East and South America, such a utopia admittedly seems even less plausible than telepathically peacemaking extraterrestrials.
An eye for an eye and the whole world will be blind - it would be a shame for the great films, the great art, the great literature. It is precisely there that it becomes apparent that the human life form is actually capable of imagining meaningful arrangements of all its diverse needs and concerns. Maybe one day life will actually imitate art...

(HE)