2018 · biopic · historical · war
Goyo: The Boy General
Directed by Jerrold Tarog2h 35m2018
With this film (the second war trilogy set during the Filipino-American war in the early 1900s), the revolution marches on against the Americans after the bloody death of General Antonio Luna. The conflicted philosophies behind the heroic struggle continue and become personified in the colorful character of General Gregorio "Goyo" del Pilar.
Our read: Goyo: The Boy General (2018) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded biopic · historical · war entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured biopic / historical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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