Tsardyer
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| Aldrin Cardon |
What infuses life, or power, in beliefs and ideologies when most have failed in their past incarnations?
I ask this as I try to relate to the life of Shihab, main character in movie director Sigfried Barros-Sanchez’s latest film, Tsardyer (Charger), about a 10-year-old boy who does errands for his uncle, who is the top leader of a local terrorist group, which held hostage a top television reporter and two members of her crew — a story based on the kidnapping of Ces Drilon, with some cinematic twists which only became necessary in the end, unless the movie becomes a documentary of the case, which had become a closed book for both Drilon and ABS-CBN, her mother network.
The screening of Sanchez’s movie came rather timely as government is reeling from the effects of a travel ban by six countries, led by the United States and Great Britain, advising their nationals against traveling to the Philippines in anticipation of a possible terror attack, which was hardly felt at the Shang
Complex on Saturday night, when Sanchez premiered Tsardyer as an entry in the Cinema One Originals independent film competition..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101115com6.html
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