A review of the 1998 Filipino film 'Jose Rizal', praising its portrayal of the national hero and his life's struggles. The film highlights Rizal's love, sacrifices, and fight against Spanish colonialism, as depicted through his novels 'Noli Me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo'.
This is one local movie that every Filipino must see to realize what trials and sacrifices Rizal went through and the meaning of freedom and independence. I WATCHED on Netflix the film “Jose Rizal” a few nights ago, produced by the GMA Entertainment Group in 1998 which got raves then. Dr. Jose Rizal, the “soul” of the Philippine Revolution was ably portrayed by the very good Filipino actor, Cesar Montano.
And I congratulate the director of the film, the late Marilou Diaz Abaya for a well made movie and also the supporting actors and actresses. What is really outstanding about the film is the well-researched life of Dr. Jose Rizal, our national hero, whose life and sacrifices were depicted in the film, including his love for Leonor Rivera, and, during his exile in Dapitan, his love for Josephine Bracken. The abuses of the Spanish colonizers and the friars, including the sexual abuses of the friars made Rizal write the NOLI ME TANGERE and the EL FILIBUSTERISMO. These two novels ably depicted the cry for freedom which led to the 1896 revolution led by Andres Bonifacio, Santa Banana. For those who have read Rizal’s novels, you must know how the Spanish colonizers thought of us Filipinos as mere “chongos” or monkeys. Well depicted in the movie were Rizal’s younger years and the brotherly love between Rizal and with his elder brother Paciano and the sacrifices of Paciano, who witnessed the execution of Padres Gomez, Burgos and Zamora in Cavite. (Editor’s Note: The three Filipino Catholic priests were accused of treason and sedition in connection with the 1872 Cavite Mutiny, a revolt by 200 Filipino soldiers and laborers in the town of Cavite. The Spanish colonial government and Spanish friars used the mutiny to implicate the three secular priest
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