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The vision of history subjacent to both films is a kind of revolutionary historicism that posits guerilla onflict and revolution as ineluctable.

it is through such a 'Manichean' violence, symmetrical to the enemy's violence, that the oppressed achieve the awareness of their own strength.

the fictional Caribbean island of Queimada, whose autochthonous population has been smashed by the colonisers

Oppression is an ancestral, compelling, almost ontological malediction.

It is both the means of accelerated accumulation, as well as the variegated result of said accumulation - the mass of self-expanding capital.