Week 11 Monday Nov 21st-26th 2011

This week we continued working on the Cold War by watching the film The Russians are Coming.We viewed the scene when the Russians arrived at the house, pretending they weren't Russians infact but Norwegians. The message of the film maker was that the Russians weren't as bad as they were made out to be. This film clearly reflects the period of the Detente.

The second film we viewed was entitled Red Dawn. This was quite another kettle of fish! Indeed, we witnessed scenes of barbary and violence fit of the Mongols. A group of foreign soldiers arrived in a small town and killed everyone insight without any apparent reason other than being allies of the Russians.
This time the message was crystal clear, that is to say all Russians and their friends are barbaric and violent . They are enemies of the Americans.

We will continue with this next week.