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Guitar Scene – To avoid spoiling the experience for anyone, I will just say that as someone who appreciates music, especially live and organic music, that scene was definitely one of the highlights of the film.Throughout the film, the characters, and Luna himself, would speak this way, even lifting from the general’s poems of past. Luna bursts out in the middle of a heated discussion: “Para kayong mga birhen na naniniwala sa pag-ibig ng sang puta! (You’re like virgins that believe in the love of a whore!)”. Poetry – The lines themselves spoken by the characters, especially the General, were nothing short of poetic.Rizal almost got into a duel because of a woman, and also the dark part of his brother Juan’s life. This would be in reference to how he and Dr. He would also kid around as to how being a member of the Luna Family gets you into trouble involving a woman. It also helped in showing the human side of Luna, as he would kid around with his subordinates. In this case, humour was injected perfectly to ease the blow of the unjust assassination (Not a spoiler, read your books). Humor – Normally, period films such as this involve serious and dramatic portrayal of the protagonist.From those choices, I get flak from friends and family, who claim “Everyone’s doing it, anyway”, or “Di ka naman nakikisama (Can’t you just play along?)”.Īside from relating to the protagonist, a number of elements of the film actually got me to applaud (literally, at the rolling of the credits), which I found weird because nobody was physically there to applaud, but what they hey, right? Let me list some of the reasons:
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Aside from also having a volatile temper (though time has helped me take this down a bit), I also make unpopular decisions based on principle. I felt a common struggle with the General. This could, again, be personal bias talking, but when I was watching the movie, I did not feel like a mere spectator. I think among all the period films of the revolution so far, (about Aguinaldo, Bonifacio, Antonio Luna), this was the most real.
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The movie actually paints a very human picture of the passionate general, a side of him that is only talked about in Philippine History classes in college, depending on which professor taught the subject. It was this mindset that ultimately led to his demise, as he stepped on a lot of toes through his unpopular actions. The one person who tried to see past personal preference for the sake of a united resistance was General Luna. However, a number of online resources (, for one) provide us a glimpse into the personal side of our “heroic leaders” enough to make educated guesses about which to believe.īut then again, this movie is not about choosing sides, but showing that it is what caused the failure of the revolution in the first place.
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As to which parts of the movie are fact, and which ones are made up, there is a gradient of grey. That in order to paint the truth about what happened, we must combine the real and imaginary. The movie is a work of fiction based on facts, as the dramatically honest introduction says. This was also very evident in the film “Heneral Luna”, where the soldiers explicitly stated that they would only take orders from the president (Emilio Aguinaldo, a Caviteño) or other Caviteño officers, but not from General Antonio Luna, who was the commander of the Philippine Revolutionary Army. The promising revolutionary army crumbled and failed because of infighting and political rivalry involving Caviteños and other Tagalogs. The Magdiwang and Magdalo factions of the Katipunan proved just that. There will always be personal biases, and lots of politics involved. All these “heroes” are also given a glorified reputation, that some forget that they’re just people serving the country to the best of their interpretation of what serving the country really is. Sometimes “facts” get twisted into indirect or half-truths, such as “Lapu-Lapu Killed Magellan”, or how the Philippine-American war was sparked by an incident involving some drunken sentries. When Philippine History lessons are taught to students, a lot of emphasis is given to memorizing dates and names of people, but not much on what happened to them.