I recently read an article for another class that I just couldn’t believe. It seems that a Norwegian company called SVAICE is trying to market luxury ice. That’s right, I said Luxury Ice. Geir Ludvik Olsen, the company’s founder is targeting up-scale, high-class bars and restaurants in large markets such as Dubai, London and New York.

Films provide an entertaining medium from which the audience may draw relevant lessons. Since viewing October and The Battle of Algiers, I have come to question the intention of these movies as they were produced with the clear intent of building upon an explicit national identity. As the films were made shortly after the events they depict, while they are still metaphorically fresh in the memory of the masses, their effects are certainly magnified.

The idea of a national identity is one that pertains to not an individual, but to a great number of individuals. Since the earliest ideas of tribal gatherings humanity has searched for ways to identify with one another. Ever since we've been able to record history through oral tradition, cave paintings, or eventually through early forms of writing, there have existed stories of hero's and great achievements. The success of the revolution of the working class in October shows us an example of the glorified actions of those who overthrew the royal family.

The birth of the USSR out of 1917’s October Revolution, the second revolution in Russia that year, was an event that would ripple through the rest of the 20th century, and the Soviet government decided to commission Sergei Eisenstein to commemorate it in his aptly-named silent 1928 film October.