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Lakbay2Love: A ride to environmentalism

14 Thursday Jan 2016

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By Heinrich Domingo

Here is a film that I am willing to forgive its lapses. Above all the imperfect shots, surface-level storyline, and overpowering musical scoring, Lakbay2Love delivers environmentalism to the frontline. For a country that experiences climate change first-hand, this film is timely, relevant, and necessary.

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Felix Manalo: Preaching to the choir

12 Monday Oct 2015

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by Heinrich Domingo

The subjectivity of art in cinema can be construed as having the freedom to interpret and understand. But, as any filmmaker would attest, the notion of independent thinking ceases when the camera starts rolling. The lens zooms in to specific shots, frames are selective of certain environment, and lighting is used to overemphasize characters. Yet, no forewarning was sufficient to prepare us in the three-hour agony of watching a self-glorifying, history-mutilating, sect-promoting film that is Felix Manalo.
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