Costa Gavras

Any similarity to actual persons or events is deliberate. . . .And so the journey with Costa-Gavras began with Z.

After watching:

{1969} - Z
{1970} - L'aveu (The Confession)
{1972} - Etat de Siege (State Of Siege)
{1982} - Missing
{1983} - Hanna K
{1988} - Betrayed
{1989} - Music Box
{1997} - Mad City
{2002} - Amen
{2005} - Le Couperet (The Axe)
{2009} - Eden à l'ouest (Eden Is West)
{2012} - Le Capital

One should be a bit ashamed if one has not been exposed to the above works of Costa-Gavras and still exist in this world as if all is well.

99.99% of the Movies don’t let you think. It is Directors like Costa-Gavras, Andrei Tarkovsky, Kenji Mizoguchi, Santiago Alvarez, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Lars von Trier, Fernando Solanas, Masaki Kobayashi, Michael Haneke, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Yasujiro Ozu amongst others, that trigger your cells. A good film director should be able to give his audience a blow in the head. He should be able to bring them out of their complacency and their apathy. But before you get exposed to these directors, prepare yourself. Don’t expect the director to fill you in.

Reading some events disturbs your mind, but when those same events are exposed in a cinematic form, it just blows the mind. Such is the power of Costa-Gavras’ movies. Most of his movies have a very Kafkaesque tone. Kafka was a man ahead of his time when he saw the future as an intimidating, inexplicable world in which Man is crushed by the wheels of a faceless bureaucracy. A large number of his films depict Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, Law and justice, Oppression, Authorized or Illegitimate violence, Torture, Persecution, Intimidation, Domestication and Enslavement of Citizens and misusing the power which is in the hands of the Government and not the people.

The dilemma is that Man defines man strictly by their Ideologies.