To be honest, when I first heard about this movie I was not really interested in it. Why? Because who would pay almost 200php to watch a boring historical movie? But as soon as I watched the trailer, my heart was beating so fast with excitement especially when I saw it was 50% off for students. This movie made me think twice about my purpose for my country. What can I contribute in my community?
Heneral Luna is a story about the experiences of one of our heroes Antonio Luna. It has become one of my favorite movies after watching it. The main point of this movie is that we should realize what is more important, business or freedom? country or ourselves? In the movie, it shows that the real enemy was not the Americans, but it was our fellow Filipinos. We are our own enemies for we ourselves killed one another, and challenged one another because of our pride. I think that was the ultimate mistake the Filipinos did and the reason why they lost the war. They were conquered because there was no unity among the Filipinos.
I highly recommend for people especially the youth to watch this film because it is not only funny, modern, and brutal, it is also a film that can open our eyes of what happened to our country. This film trended nationwide in social media. For me, if this movie trended and triggered our patriotism, we should produce more because it is quite saddening to think that most Filipinos are ignorant about our country. For example, the posts on social medias questioning why Apolinario Mabini was sitting the entire movie was just really stupid.
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