{"id":8768,"date":"2013-09-16T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2013-09-10T22:54:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T02:54:21","slug":"independencia-2009-raya-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8768","title":{"rendered":"Independencia (2009, Raya Martin)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sought this out because Martin is one of Cinema Scope’s 50 Under 50<\/a>. Reminds of the fake 4:3 history of Tabu<\/a><\/em>, but even more artificial, and with more leaves and fronds than Sternberg would’ve thought possible for his Anatahan<\/a><\/em>. Percussive music when needed, never rising higher than the sound of wind.<\/p>\n

There’s a family fighting hunger and frigid rain. Little birds (finches?) flutter around as if tossed into frame, landing in a kid’s hair at one point. Americans collect the kid but apparently not out of goodwill, since they start shooting when he runs off.<\/p>\n

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The subtitles don’t seem trustworthy, and my copy is too muddy and low-res. And I don’t really understand. But the photography is very nice, and different from anything else today. Turns to color for a Germany Year Zero<\/a><\/em> ending. Must rewatch when blu-ray comes out.<\/p>\n

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N. Manaig:<\/p>\n

Not unlike South American and other Third World writers employing magic realism in their works, Martin harnesses the inherently surreal\/fantastical aspects of our folklore in order to mirror the under-emphasized and misrepresented aspects of our culture. Circulated in the deep of the night, circulated during meals, the stories exchanged in the depths of the forest are a kind of nourishment, a defense mechanism that both diverts and fortifies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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D. Kasman (who also mentioned Anatahan<\/em>):<\/p>\n

His minute little saga, which begins with a mother and son in the late 1890s fleeing the American invasion of the Philippines by hiding out in the forest, and ends with the son having a son all his own, still hiding from the encroaching Yanks, is shot in homage to old Hollywood films.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Acquarello:<\/p>\n

Visually, Martin reflects this process of cultural imperialism in the images of supplanted native identity that bookend the film: from the opening shot of Filipinos in figuratively handed down Spanish clothing .. to the ominous tincture of color suffusing the horizon against a Mount Fuji-esque scenic landscape (reminiscent of scroll work) that augurs the arrival of the Japanese.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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