tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3762681276595673682.post7850070396935437414..comments2024-03-19T23:22:19.759+07:00Comments on Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal: News and Views on Thai Cinema: Cannes '09: Festival notes part 3Wise Kwaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00462741207572023832noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3762681276595673682.post-2933210735479112472009-05-19T09:59:00.000+07:002009-05-19T09:59:00.000+07:00"People in the Philippines see this as a form..."People in the Philippines see this as a form of entertainment but I wanted them to understand this is not just entertainment but it exists," <br /><br />Dear Lord, is this guy patronizingly dumb, or WHAT ?!?<br /><br />Wow. Such a powerful insight. I certainly wouldn't have thought of such a thing, passing through the bailwicks of actual gangs every time I walk out of the house.<br /> <br />Roll call then. What are the usual titles of ' gangster/slasher flicks ?' The Maggie De la Riva STORY. The Vizconde Massacre. Kuratong Baleleng Gang. Mostly based on real notorious names, of real notorious people, and/or real notorious gangs, chronicling real notorious stories. And often upended by the word ‘ story’. As if to imply it’s TRUE STORY. <br /><br /><br />These are stuff everybody else deals with in their daily lives, read in the headlines, and watch religiously in the news. OF COURSE they think it exists.<br /><br />But you wouldn’t know this, checking out the selections at the multiplexes. BECAUSE ALL THESE FILMS HAVE DISAPPEARED. <br /><br />Shows what happens when the elite systematically takes cinema away from most people, while shutting them out from the reality of their lives ( like they have done to, say human rights, and politics ), and when the elitist evidently has NO IDEA WHAT HE’S DAMN TALKING ABOUT. <br /><br />< Oh, and ' entertainment ' ? Well, between you, and them, Mr. Mendoza, most Pinoys realize at least that there's some STORY in there, that there's CHARACTERS and personages, and there's INSIGHT to be had. That these gangster things involve ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS, and are not just moving reflection of your contempt towards the poor that rests and resides outside your fricking window ! I mean, the audience got STANDARDS. ><br /><br />.Toby Dammitnoreply@blogger.com