TaraLETSdotcom's video: Cinemalaya 2018 - ML MARTIAL LAW

Details - http://www.taralets.com ML by BENEDICTO MIQUE, JR. A college student, his girlfriend and bestfriend get more than what they bargained for when they decide to learn about the dark days of Martial Law straight from an old retired soldier who may be one of its worst abusers. To truly learn about the horrors of Martial Law, do teenagers today have to pay the ultimate price? Carlo, an unapologetically millennial college jock, thinks that Martial Law wasn’t all that bad. No one in his family had anything bad to say about it, all he’s ever read are Facebook posts that say human rights violations were exaggerated, and really, it’s all so long ago that he thinks people should just move on. Confronted by a frustrated History professor, Carlo sets out to prove he is right and looks for someone who lived through that period to tell the tale. This leads him to the Colonel, an old recluse living alone in a ramshackle house in Carlo’s neighborhood. The Colonel rarely gets out of the house, keeps to himself and is somewhat ignored by his neighbors. Carlo pays the old man a visit to interview him about what truly happened during the Marcos regime. What he doesn’t know is that the Colonel, is a high-ranking official during Martial Law and one of its dreaded executioners. He raped, tortured and killed student activists during the First Quarter Storm and all throughout Martial Law, and has never been held accountable for his actions. Now the Colonel spends the twilight of his years haunted by ghosts from his past, both real and imagined, waiting for some sort of reckoning. That reckoning comes when Carlo confronts him about his Martial Law days, awakening the evil that lurks within the old soldier; a reckoning that puts Carlo, his bestfriend and girlfriend, Jaze and Pats lives in danger. Shrouded in a haze of dementia, The Colonel sees Carlo and his friends as the activist youths of the 70’s and sets out to methodically torture, rape, and murder them. What started as a simple school assignment turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, and Carlo and Pat will have to endure every bit of brutality and abuse Marco that happened in the days of Martial Law. They soon realize that malevolence transcends time, and past horrors can just as easily put our present in danger. An intense, claustrophobic and provocative thriller, ML confronts the apathy of this generation towards the abuses and corruption that characterized late President Ferdinand Marcos’ Martial Law regime. Historical revisionism has distorted our views of the past and has altered our view of ourselves as Filipinos; ML warns us against the dangers of this collective amnesia, and reminds us that getting to where we want to be doesn’t necessitate forgetting where we were. Timely, controversial, and daring, ML will surely be one of the standouts of the 2018 Cinemalaya Film Festival. Cinemalaya 14 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival 2018 From Aug 4-12, 2018 at the CCP theaters and select Ayala Malls Cinemas.