First of all, Rosen emphasizes how a major difference between Third Cinema and mainstream cinema is that while mainstream cinema tends to be individual and psychological, Third cinema is community and collective oriented. This seemed to hold true throughout Ceddo, with dialogue being not just between characters but between groups. At the end, however, when Dior shoots the imam, I really got the impression that she was acting out of her own agency. While I understand that she was essentially uniting the nation (regardless of class divisions) against the muslim foreigners, she made this decision not by committee vote, but seemingly based on her own, personal, psychological choice. I wonder what the significance of this is for the understanding of women in the film, as well as for individual agency in general.
On another note, the Keenan Sarejevo on Television article takes the position that perhaps the problem with televising horrors is that we (the public) wrongfully assume a connection between knowledge and a specific, fitting political action/response. The more the public became exposed to images of Sarajevo, the more they assumed something MUST have been being done to help. How can Third Cinema, which relies essentially on the same medium and techniques of exposing horrific, disturbing, emotional images avoid this pitfall?
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