History is always at least a field with two sides divided by a fence : sometimes more fences and sides.
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Griffith made the South and the Ku Klux Klan look like the repressed good guys during the civil war in America in his silent movie “Birth of a Nation”. Movies, motion pictures, flicks, whatever you want to call them, show history as the director, producer, writer or who ever want to show it or perceive it. Here is my ramble on Filipino history.humor me, because I am all over the page with this …and it comes from living here this last year and having traveled and stayed at various times in the Philippines the last 11 years. I can only say, in conclusion, that it is a fitting thing to think about for the Heneral Luna movie. We’ve got to focus on ideas and ideals focusing on personalities and events accomplishes very little.ĩ) Change is something Filipinos need drastically. The times have changed the dysfunction has not. The deeper ills that were supposedly present in our society back then are the same ones that we are still facing now. The point is, our history is replete with lessons about ourselves lessons, that apparently, we have yet to apply, lessons that we deny or ignore. The challenge, as always, has been to convince the public that certain filmmakers’ vision and stuff is worth it, and to get more of them to support it.Ĩ) If you’ve already watched the film, and you come out of it hating Emilio Aguinaldo more, or admiring Antonio Luna for what he is, I think that is only one part of a bigger picture. There are people who want better quality and more diverse media on both the media makers’ side and the viewers’ side. Nevertheless, the support it has gotten does indicate that there is a market for such films out there. But for a realist, it’s Tuesday.Ħ) At this point, I do wonder: despite all the praises being heaped on the movie in social media, why have the cinemas showing it been decreased? Is there something that the movie houses or big business knows that the viewing public does not? Is there something in it that they don’t want the viewing public to see? Or are they merely being controlling and presumptuous with what they think will sell?ħ) Whatever the final box office figures for Heneral Luna will be, let’s just say that from the start it would have been a really tough sell to an audience that prefers its Enteng Kabisote or AlDub or On the Wings of Love to serious, relatively more thought-provoking stuff.
As an example, your average Filipino would find such a line utterly profound, or deep. Let me borrow and paraphrase a line from the film: “ Filipinos have a bigger enemy than the Americans, and it would be themselves.”. The politicking, the provincialism and pettiness of Filipinos were depicted as existing even as far back as those times, the start of the 20th century.ĥ) The question foremost on my mind is this: Why do we need a film to tell us what we should already know?
More and more Filipinos are becoming disillusioned and dissatisfied with the way things are in this country. We cannot deny, however, that history is only too vital, because those who don’t learn from it are doomed to repeat it.Ĥ) Perhaps through calculated timing, or through the sheer natural flow of events, the themes depicted in the movie resonate with more moviegoers. We could even say that history is something a lot of us are either stuck in, or are only trying too hard to forget. For most of us, we relegate it to a subject in school that we have to pass. Yet the role he played in the fight for independence cannot be ignored.ģ) History, however, seems a tough subject to tackle in a film, in the sense that keeping it interesting is a big challenge. It did the latter.Ģ) Compared to the likes of Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, et al., Antonio Luna is for most Filipinos a relatively obscure figure. Nevertheless, I maintain that Heneral Luna is still worth the price of admission because it did relatively well either or both of the things that a good movie should: stir one’s emotions or make one think. Subscribe to our Substack newsletter, GRP Insider! Consider also supporting our efforts to remain an independent channel for social commentary and insight by sponsoring us through a small donation or a monthly paid subscription.
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