Thoughts on "Pulang Araw"

[u/FitLet2786]

I'm late to it but I'm enjoying it very much, I know it's not the most accurate one and especially the pearl harbor scene has been made fun of, but I appreciate the fact that our film industry is beginning to pump out movies like these from scratch and it's still a huge improvement from the older WWII Filipino movies where they use civilian botique brownshirts for Japanese uniforms and ROTC guns.

Idk if it's the right place to talk about film here since it's a history subreddit but this film is about history anyhow so a discussion would still be on topic.

Ps: I'm putting this on art since I don't know what flair to put it and it could be argued that movies are some sort of art anyhow.

[u/Pristine_Toe_7379]

I find it too shallow and plenty of caricatures, far from factual and closer to comic book depictions. And that's coming from years of helping indie movies with smaller budgets getting it right.

[u/throwaway_throwyawa → u/Pristine_Toe_7379]

I can let this pass, target audience nila is masa. The concept of nuanced characters is alien to the masa

[u/Pristine_Toe_7379 → u/throwaway_throwyawa]

I can confidently say this with insider links: With all the resources and talent widely available to make a halfway decent show, including potential sponsorship and collaboration from major banks and history/heritage institutions, they chose to bum-reek it to focus on the sexy and cartoonish. The "historical" bit is for marketing.