Gladiatorerna
(Los gladiadores / The Gladiators / Les Gladiateurs)
(Suecia, 1969) [Color, 90 / 102 m.].
Género: Sátira política, Cine de anticipación.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Peter Watkins.
Guión: Nicholas Gosling, Peter Watkins.
Fotografía: Peter Suschitzky.
Música: Claes af Geijerstam.
Producción: Bo Jönsson, Göran Lindgren.
Productora: Sandrews.
Sinopsis: La guerra es tratada como un evento deportivo en la que dos partes se enfrentan en un conflicto bajo la supervisión de unos ‘oficiales’. Los ‘juegos’ se desarrollan de forma similar a un programa de televisión. Watkins pretende con esta película ilustrar la vaciedad de la guerra, caricaturizando a los líderes políticos y la forma en la que utilizan argucias para empujar a sus tropas a la victoria (Festival de Cine de Gijón).
“The Gladiators” es una sombría sátira situada en un futuro cercano en el que las mayores potencias del mundo, el Este y el Oeste, alineados y no-alineados, reconocen la posibilidad de una guerra mundial inminente e intentan evitarla canalizando los instintos agresivos del hombre de una forma más controlable. Lo hacen mediante la creación de una Comisión Internacional siguiendo el modelo de las Naciones Unidas, dedicada a organizar una serie de luchas entre equipos de soldados elegidos de cada país. Estas competiciones, que pueden ser a muerte, son llamadas “Juegos de Paz”, y son retransmitidas en la televisión global vía satélite - con patrocinadores y anuncios. (Nueve Maletas, en RebeldeMule)
Synopsis: The year's Peace Games convene in Sweden, with a specially chosen Allied team set against a Soviet bloc squad composed entirely of Chinese Red Guards. Officers from both sides observe from a viewing room that displays the television feed relayed to the rest of the planet; the commanders can issue orders to their troops and make morale-building statements. The Allied team's effort immediately breaks down in nationalist and racist squabbling. Its officer tries to get his men to cooperate, but they show a lack of initiative, losing points and getting snarled up in a ruined factory building. In contrast, the Chinese team fights as an obedient unit. In the control booth, cool-headed technicians bemoan the fact that the ICARUS gaming computer doesn't seem to be working very well. The game is managed as a show with commercial breaks; when the fighters refuse to move, the controllers force the game along by manipulating remote controls. The Western team is given a wild-card member, B-3 (Jean-Pierre Delamour) to represent the dissenting anti-war minority. B-3 rails about "the system" and struggles to subvert the game by finding and destroying its control room. As the main fight bogs down, the pompous generals are confronted by a terrible threat to the integrity of the Peace Game, and by extension, world harmony: On camera, British soldier B-6 (J.Z. Kennedy) and Chinese soldier C-2 (Pik-Sen Lim) make personal contact ("Collaboration!") and elect to escape the game together.
Review: After the hostile critical reception of his movie Privilege, Peter Watkins tried unsuccessfully to initiate a project about the American west and then accepted an offer to make a film in Sweden. The Gladiators applies his 'false documentary' style to fantastic political science fiction. The story involves a computer-controlled "Peace Game" (with real bullets and real casualties) organized by the U.N. by to keep belligerent nations from resorting to outright war. The games are televised worldwide, presumably to provide a 'safe' outlet for hostile impulses. In 1969 this was a very novel concept.
Peter Watkins' The Gladiators has the makings of an exciting Science Fiction thriller but escapism is the last thing on this director's mind. His film satirizes the arrogance of the military powers behind The Peace Game and encourages thought about the struggle against what rebels in 1968 called "the system." A violent combination of television, sports and combat, The Peace Game's true purpose is to control an unhappy citizenry and stifle dissent by means of civilization's most effective "bread and circuses" entertainment: War [...]. (Glenn Erickson, DVDTalk).
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Información adicional:- Peter Watkins, Wikipedia.
- El cine resistente de Peter Watkins, Nodo50 - Tortuga.
- Alcalde, José Ángel: "Peter Watkins. El cine de prospección futura como máquina de despertar conciencias". Nosferatu, nº 34-35 (2001), monográfico "Ciencia-Ficción Europea".
Enlaces relacionados:
El falso documental. Peter Watkins
Filmografía Peter Watkins (Director)
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