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Movie Review : Movies Three Kings With The Siege Of Jadotville

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1. The movies Three Kings with The Siege of Jadotville, both war like movies, show two different types of political movies. Three Kings which is an overwhelmingly liberal film based on the first Gulf War under president George H. W. Bush and then there is The Siege of Jadotville which is based on the Katanga conflict in Congo-Léopoldville was a centrist film. There are certain criteria that a movie must fall into that enables them to be categorized as a conservative, liberal, revolutionary right, radical right, revolutionary left, and radical right and these films fell into their respective categories. So why were these films categorized like that and what did these films do that place them in these categories along with what being in this category means in terms of the criteria that are fulfilled. A liberal film is one who views the military establishment as a potential threat to democracy and to freedom at home, they view the government as an agent for change, that govt. can be used as a vehicle and can fix a wrong that is currently existing in society, they believe that believe capitalism is wasteful, exploitative and unfair, liberals view the class system as discriminatory, repressive and unjust, when it comes to crime liberal are most often depicted as the victims being dominated by corrupt bosses, poor schools, bad police, bad parents and brutal prisons, criminals are victims and are dominated by these corrupt figures, they view law enforcement as corrupt and bigoted,

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