Goyo brings back the overarching theme of Heneral Luna, asking if they have placed their loyalty on a person or a principle. Like how our politics work, they are manipulating the minds of the people and creating false news just to achieve their evil plans. The film showed what happened years ago are still happening today. This is what we should do at the moment in facing the problems we encounter today. An example would be when Joven, the fictional character was talking with his uncle who’s the photographer asking what he could learn from the people around him, his uncle simply said, “E di matutuo ka sa mga pagkakamali nila”. Though the turnout of events were not that great the hidden messages in the movie was clearly visible. To sum it all up we witnessed how flawed the Filipinos and our leaders are. Goyo is having this mindset that he will be forced to be loyal to Aguinaldo to keep his rank and not lose the trust of Aguinaldo because again, he was Aguinaldo's favorite. It was also obvious of him to have hallucinations because it was when he was tasked by the president to catch the men loyal to Antonio Luna and was tortured, that loyal men to Luna told Goyo that Goyo is a dog because he is a follower of Aguinaldo, it is at this moment when he started thinking if what he was doing is true and good that led to his hallucinations. As the film progresses we see him doubting himself because he was having an internal battle whether what that president was doing is good for his fellowmen or is it only for himself. Goyo is more of a story telling type of movie showing his personalities as the youngest general the film showed him as popular by his good looks, favorite of Emilio Aguinaldo. The movie portrayed the events that took place after Luna's death, ending in the historic Battle of Tirad Pass. He is a favorite of Aguinaldo because he led a platoon in a battle and they won, that was when he was noticed by the president and also the fact that he is still young Aguinaldo might have thought that he is strong and very reliable that led to Aguinaldo's decision on putting him in a higher rank. He was favorably appointed by Emilio Aguinaldo because he was his favorite. Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral Goyo movie portrays the battle of Gregorio Del Pilar as the general of the Republic of the Philippines after General Luna died. We need to let these film makers know that we want to watch movies that make sense.A Reflection Paper to Heneral Luna and Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral If you’re still on the fence about watching Heneral Luna, I suggest you do it already because not only are you going to watch a good movie, but you’re also supporting the local film industry and encouraging film makers to push movies of this quality to the main stream viewing public. If you told me this was an American-made film, I would have believed you because the quality is just that good. I’ve never felt that the movie was cheap at any point in time. Not to mention the actors almost look like the actual people they’re portraying.
I never got bored even in the dialog-heavy scenes. Time flew so fast that I didn’t realize I was watching a 2 hour movie. The story telling is incredible, the pacing is just right and it had a good amount of comedy mixed in between the scenes. Just watched Heneral Luna and it definitely lived up to the hype that it got from the people in my network.Īs someone who found Philippine history to be boring during school (let alone almost fails the class), I probably would have been more interested if this movie were to show during my school years instead of just now.