Kun Maupay Man it Panahon: Parallels of misfortuneWhatever else might be said about Kun Maupay Man it Panahon, whose reputation precedes it having been part of the official selection in Locarno earlier this year, the directorial feature debut of Carlo Francisco Manatad has the advantage of serendipity, opening in theaters nine days after Typhoon Odette laid waste to islands in the Visayas and Northern Mindanao. There are a number of striking scenes, lyric angles that somehow find beauty in devastation, but this is never romanticized. Although here it’s not raindrops keep falling on my head but after the deluge. Part of the sins of cinema seems to suggest, just how resilient the Filipinos should be in order for us to stop using the word resilience? Statements of profundity can be made about the parallels of misfortune, storm and contagion, not to mention latent circuses in town brewing, and makes us wonder if such things really happened in post-Yolanda Tacloban.

Source: Philippine Star January 03, 2022 21:31 UTC