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(HENERAL LUNA MOVIE)

Nowadays, people who would rather risk their lives for the sake of their country are rarely to be
found. It’s actually unusual and weird to implant in the mind that some would actually do that. It’s hard to
choose between your family and your country, but what’s harder is to risk your own happiness for a
satisfying painful death.
Surely, many people have heard about Dr. Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo, the
Philippines most famous heroes. Heneral Luna is a historical film about one of the Philippines’ greatest
generals. He was the most intelligent in the Philippine military, the wisest man who ever ruled the Philippine
system in fighting using brilliant tactics instead of technology. The story took place during the Philippine-
American War, focusing on the leadership of Heneral Luna to the Philippine Revolutionary Army. It
revolved not only about the war against the Americans, but mainly on the conflict among Filipinos. The

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issue was about the presence of Americans and other Filipinos supporting the Americans’ ways such as

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Buencamino and Paterno. The idea of fellow Filipinos supporting Americans enraged Heneral Luna for he

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was very patriotic and strongly fought for the freedom of the Philippines. Though Luna was considered to

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be a great leader of the army, some were against his leadership for others envy or were threatened by his
presence. He had conflicts with other fellow generals such Mascardo which lead to more hatred against

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After watching Heneral Luna, I can say that this may be the best historical local film that I ever
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watched. The story was great, actors and editing are also a good. I never imagined that Heneral Luna is a
bad leader even though he used power and authority to ruled Filipino soldiers, in fact he was amazing
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because every problem that came, he always like a blink of the eyes to think for the solution. What captured
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mw e and what I like the most about the movie was the script. Itself. There were cussing lines on the film
but they were creative and poetic, besides the fact that Antonio Luna was also a poet. His lines and dialogue
made the viewers remember the movie itself. The line that I will never forget is "negosyo o kalayaan, bayan
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o sarili” that shows that the Filipino’s aim is always for their families not for the whole country. The ending
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part of the film was making me sad and it is painful to see that our Philippine flag are dirty and ragged. But
overall, I am super amazed and inspired to him because he stands and fight for the independence of our
country and also the movie showed me, and opened my eyes that we Filipinos are not united as it should be,
we are one nation but we don't act as one. We should be supporting and helping, but we tend to pull each
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other down. At the end of the movie I became disappointed about Filipinos than what the American does to
the country. This is our fault, we let ourselves to be manipulated by the foreigners, by these Americans. The
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real enemy is not the foreign colonizer, but our self-greed.

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