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I got a DVD copy of "Behold a Pale Horse" and I can now after many years seeing it more calmly as I did a few times. It is a hymn to liberty and resistance to tyranny. Impressive in every way. A film that should make us wonder about its depth. Men who are murdered and banished from their homeland, children who lose their parents and grow up with the feeling of revenge. Mothers who die without the right to see their children banished to another country. Zinnemann made a masterpiece. The black and white only reinforce their distress. Peck have here a magnificent performance as the revolutionary Artiguez that an almost suicidal gesture, and that also deserves further analysis,back to their homeland, knowing that he would die, but why should it back to his mother and the boy who trusted him. The gesture is much more important than the continued oppression of Vinolas, Artiguez knew this would also end. At the end of the film there is the impression that Viñolas is the winner. Applauded by all those who live with tyranny, blind and cowardly. But Viñolas own wonders: Why Artiguez back? Each of us knows the answer: Artiguez returned to prove that it can be beaten but not defeated. His gesture fighting for freedom would bear fruit. Others would follow the the steps of Artiguez finally ridding Spain of terror that dominated the Franco era. A monumental wonderful work.
score 10/10
jazerbini 8 June 2014
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