El cine bélico: una mirada sobre y desde los vencidos

Abstract

This work offers a list of war movies, grouped in different categories (war action movies, historical war movies, anti-war cinema, and anti-war cinema –from the defeated and about the defeated). Likewise, it offers analysis patterns of them, specially the vision about the defeated, both soldiers and the enemy civilian population. It proposes, moreover, the possibility that in several films here listed is likely to balance the entertainment and the reflection about the human tragedy of war. In this manner the war movies could works as a strategy of “war against war”, it can be justified because in war only a few people benefits from it. And war comes from simplistic and reductionist views of reality. To have, in the totalitarian political discourse, a monochrome and reductionism vision about the world is simple; but the good cinema gives complexity and polychromy to the life itself.