Montano, Estela Marie V.

HTRM 2-1

Critique Paper Final Period - "Ang Buhay ng Isang Bayani"

Jose Rizal argued for non-violent reform of Spain's colonial rule withinside the Philippines
in "Ang Buhay ng Isang Bayani”. The Philippines became one of the most economically
powerful countries more than five decades ago. While the archipelago once had one of
Asia's largest economies, while it remains an important part of the world today, those
glory days are long gone. Most outsiders today associate the Philippines with its flaws:
political instability, economic hardship, high crime, poverty rates, and corruption, to name
a few. When political leaders cheat, scam, and steal; when public offices become a public
embarrassment, particularly in terms of bribery and corruption; and when public revenues
end up in private pockets, corruption emerges. There were problems in society during
Rizal's period when our country was under the control and power of bigoted and unjust
Spaniards, that caused Filipino misery.

Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was born on June 19, 1861 in Calamba,
Laguna, Philippines. Jose Rizal become an exceptional pupil who studied medication in
Manila and discovered many languages. He has become an image for the nationalist
motive after his execution in 1896. Jose Rizal become born in Calamba, Philippines, on
June 19, 1861. Rizal wrote approximately the inequality that observed Spain's colonial
authority in his fatherland whilst dwelling in Europe. He came back to the Philippines in
1892 however become deported because of his willingness to reform. Rizal become
convicted of sedition and become killed on December 30, 1896, on the age of 35,
regardless of hoping for a non-violent change.

Jose Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, is the subject of this documentary. The epic on
the life and tribulations of his poet and patriotisms, narrated by Mr. Joonee Gamboa. It
chronicles his life from childhood through his execution by Spaniards in the Philippines in
the late 1800s. The documentary also shows Rizal as a genius, a writer, a doctor, an
artist, a lover, a friend, a brother, and a son through a sequence of flashbacks, giving the
character a rich depth.

The documentary depicts the Filipino people's existence of subjugation under the control
of the Spanish friars. This video is a stinging condemnation of Spanish colonial
governance in the Philippines, from the death of three Filipino priests for supposed
subversion in 1872 to the harsh and unequal treatment of Filipino pupils in schools. I also
applaud this video for its boldness in exposing the Catholic Church's wicked rule during
the time. Given that the Philippines is a Catholic country, it's like killing a sacred cow, but
it manages to convey the Filipinos' suffering as a result of the friars. I would recommend
it to anyone who enjoys historical films. I especially enjoy the video's final sequence,
where Rizal writes to his loved ones and closest friends. What I actually felt was that when
he was shot at Luneta and took his last breath in front of a magnificent daybreak, it was
a metaphor for him not dying in vain. He did not perish in vain. or rather, he died victorious
because his death ignites the Philippine Revolution by lighting the fire of freedom.