Most exiting footage since 1963

The so-called Hollywood new-wave was a cinematic movement with Sam Peckimpah at its center. It went against the convention of good taste showing a lot of senseless murder, of blood and of dirty heroes on the screen.

This group was very enthusiastic about one piece of film that changed the history of cinema for ever. This film show murder in vibrant colors (pink, green, etc) very graphic violence (head bouncing with the impact of the bullet, women screaming). Above all, it created a tension, a build up. Everybody knew what was going to happen. A man was going to his death… smiling, blissfully ignoring what every spectator knew.

It was that terrible tension, the inimitable grittiness of the Super 8 footage that captivated the young American filmmakers. Of course this piece of film was the assassination of John Kennedy.

Today, a more humble subject has given us a very similar piece of film. I won't tell you what it is, just watch it. See the tension building up. It is so unbearably tensed, it actually looks artificial. It seems like a gritty re-make of Clockwork Orange.

Beyond all politics and the sadness I feel for the victims, it is a great piece of film

See it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7451691.stm

What do you think of it (artistically, if you have political comments make them somewhere else)