REVIEW:Oras de PeligroProduced by: Bagong Siklab ProductionsDirected by: Joel LamanganScreenplay by: Bonifacio Ilagan and Eric RamosCast: Cherry Pie Picache, Allen Dizon, Nanding Josef, Mae Paner, …
Screenplay by: Bonifacio Ilagan and Eric Ramos
Of course it is not just here in the Philippines and in the contemporary period that films have been produced for propaganda purposes. Way back in the 1920s, the infamous Joseph Goebbels produced newsreels and short film-based news reports to glorify Nazism. And Leni Riefenstahl directed a film – TRIUMPH OF THE WILL – which glorified Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.
Fortunately, film has also become one of the most effective media to portray the truthful reality of people’s lives as well as of events that had unfolded through humanity’s turbulent history. In the process they helped us learn the lessons of history as well as imbibe values that helped promote justice, peace and harmony among peoples of various ethnicities, nationalities, races, cultural and religious affiliation, genders and other issues of identity.
With ORAS DE PELIGRO – a stunning, riveting and heart-wrenching but also thought-provoking film – Lamangan has set the record straight as to what really took place between November 1985 to the week in February 1986 when the world’s attention focused on the events unfolding at EDSA in Metro Manila that led to the downfall of the Marcos regime and the shameful exile of his family members and cronies to Hawaii, thanks to the hospitality of the U.S. government.
In the course of the film, Dario’s jeepney was held up as hold-uppers knew of a man riding the vehicle carrying a bundle of money. In the course of the action, the envelope containing the huge sum landed on Dario’s lap and he handed it to the Metrocom police who apprehended the hold-uppers. But one of the policemen shot Dario instead which then led to their accusation that Dario was in cahoots with the hold-uppers to cover up for their own corrupt act to keep the money themselves.
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