"Victims, suspects — they're all the same," says a woman who is part of a police-backed death squad in Neomanila. While illustrating how an assassin justifies her line of work, this statement also applies to director Mikhail Red's representation of the murders sweeping the Philippines in the wake of President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs."
Extrajudicial killings, known as "Ejk," have spawned a recent batch of films in the country: Adolfo Alix Jr.'s Dark Is the Night, Arlyn Dela Cruz's Bubog, Neal Tan's Adik, Roland M. Sanchez's Ejk. But instead of a victim facing down the barrel of a gun,...
Extrajudicial killings, known as "Ejk," have spawned a recent batch of films in the country: Adolfo Alix Jr.'s Dark Is the Night, Arlyn Dela Cruz's Bubog, Neal Tan's Adik, Roland M. Sanchez's Ejk. But instead of a victim facing down the barrel of a gun,...
- 1/16/2018
- by Clarence Tsui
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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