Martial Law and Batch '81
Martial Law was a time of hardship for most of our people. Maybe I could say that I was lucky not to have grown up in that era. After hearing all the stories that have been related to me by my parents and relatives when I was young, I became afraid of that time. Imagine, curfews? Military haircuts? Those were the stuff nightmares are made of. When I grew up though, I was exposed to the more gruesome details of Ferdinand Marcos' rule. The unexplained disappearances and salvages became evident to me. It was really a terrifying time to be politically active, especially if you were against the regime. Although I learned that Marcos could have been the best leader our country has had, all his achievements were negated because of his tyranny and despotism. If I were alive in that time, I would have been agreeable to Marcos' dictatorship if only he had practiced a more benevolent type of rule. He was a great ruler, and he did our country a whole lot of good. There was almost no crime and he established the Philippines as the top exporter of rice in the world. It's too bad that he had to become power-hungry and steal from the country like he did. As a result of his martial law era, the Filipino's have become inherently af
The neophytes were we, the citizens of the country. The shots that this movie contained were far better than the shots that most of the recent movies of this country. In the film Batch '81, I saw the horrors of martial law, albeit inconspicuous and obscured, portrayed graphically in front of my eyes. He created a piece of art by combining imagination, belief, and pure skill. This created more chance to view the scene and actually portray that something very violent was going on. In the film, the fraternity was shown by the director to portray martial law in all its brutality and savagery. The camerawork was superb, as the frames could tell a story all on its own. The "revenge" that the administration promised, showed by the rumble, only leading to more death and the useless loss of life. It was used during the rumble, creating confusion in me at first, but it dawned on me that the music was used to lessen the impact that violence may have on the audience. raid of the possibility of another declaration of military rule. This added a new dimension to the film, a dimension of emotion, a feeling of as if you were really part of the movie. The death of Arni Enriquez, was an example of the salvaging that went on during the martial law, screams and cries for help that no one would hear. He used different strategies of camera, from up-close shots to emphasize emotion and the scene, to slow motion, which was used to prolong scenes and to add a deeper meaning to otherwise unnoticeable parts of the movie. It sort of shows the way martial law made the people go through all the hardship to be called citizens of the country.
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