2016 · thriller · crime · filipino
Birdshot
Directed by Mikhail Red1h 56m2016
A farm girl mistakenly shoots and kills an endangered Philippine Eagle. When authorities begin a manhunt to track down the eagle’s killer, they stumble upon an even more horrific discovery.
Our read: Birdshot (2016) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive thriller · crime · filipino entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured thriller / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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