![]() ![]() “He seemed like such a nice boy…” The director skillfully doses the tension, drawing a powerful portrait of the Philippine society in which the truth is defined by those who can afford a better lawyer. We are watching the strong heroine’s searching for justice and crashing into walls of institutional incompetence, economic exclusion, and animosity from her family and neighbors. ![]() Guitierrez’s shocking, powerful debut is a psychodrama played out in closed, intimate spaces, which avoids pitying the victim and does not overflow with sentimentality. This is only the beginning of her journey – a lone fight for the basic right to safety takes a lot of determination, bordering on desperation. The perpetrator is her own husband, whom the officers won’t even effectively isolate from the protagonist fighting for her life and protecting her six-year-old daughter. Raymund Bibay Gutierrez for Verdict – Philippines | 2019 – 126 minutes – FictionĪ young woman with determination in her eyes, sits down at a desk at a police station to finally make an official statement regarding her battery. ![]()
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