Cinemalayan Review

As we go on with our next task, we were asked to watch one Cinemalayan entry for the year 2012. It was quite uninteresting at first since I really don't like to watch Indie films, but since it is a requirement, we challenged ourselves to go on. It was rainy that time and excitement doesn't dwells on. Good thing when we get there (CCP), we got to catch up the last ticket since it is the last day of film showing and many students are waiting, like us, to watch even one of the films.

GIVE UP TOMORROW exposes a Kafkaesque extravaganza populated by flamboyantly corrupt public officials, cops on the take, and a frenzied legal and media circus. It is also an intimate family drama focused on the near mythic struggle of two angry and sorrowful mothers who have dedicated more than a decade to executing or saving one young man, Paco Larrañaga.

A very good documentary of a young man, whose willing to struggle a kind of life in prison just to be able to clean his name up though it's quite tough for him to do it.

At first, I thought, why on earth was someone fight for something that he really can't deny. I mean, he's already sentenced and we all know that if one has already sentenced by court, he cannot be acquitted. And then I learned that he is only framed up by the parents of the two victims, and since those parents has a strong connection to the corrupt government, the only thing that he can do is to call for help, not in this country but on the others that might have a stronger power to stop his death execution.

Excitement got heats up, and the feeling of disinterest changed. I learned that, if you really concentrates into something even though you might thought that it is boring, you will know something from it and to your amazement, you will really learn huge from it.