1989 · drama · political · thriller
Fight for Us
Directed by Lino Brocka1h 34m1989
In 1985, in the obscure town of Dolores, the Orapronobis, a cult under the leadership of Kumander Kontra, murders a foreign priest who gave the last rites to an alleged rebel, who was also executed by the same group.
Our read: Fight for Us (1989) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · political · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / political, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
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“You want an urgent Filipino political thriller about cult terror after a broken revolution.”
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