Film
Manila in the Claws of Light
- 1:30PM
This masterpiece of Filipino cinema from Lino Brocka, an openly gay, outspoken critic of the Marcos regime, traces the journey of a naive fisherman who travels to Manila in search of his lost love—but once there finds only vice, degradation, and poverty, with violence seemingly the only way out. A furious blend of hard-hitting social realism and lurid melodrama, Manila in the Claws of Light boils over with rage at societal injustice.
Intro by scholar Paul Nadal
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