3 - Wake-up Call

Passing over the 200 million mark, Heneral Luna is considered to be the highest-grossing historical film made in the Philippines even though at its first week a lot of theaters removed this movie from their list due to other mainstream films to open. It is also one of the most expensive historical film ever made reaching about 80 million Philippine peso. Heneral Luna also made it to the Oscars, it will be our country's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category. Heneral Luna is truly a success.

I can say that I don't really much know the things happening back then but with this movie I was able to know and understand well what was happening during the Philippine-American War. A lot of conflicts were happening during the war. The line "Bayan o Sarili?" shows that we don't care for our country but only ourselves. Filipinos were too blinded with their self - interests, self - interests that would not actually help the country. General Luna said in the movie that we, Filipinos, are our biggest enemy, lacking in resolve and torn by self - interests. I agree with that statement. Heneral Luna also said in the movie "Ganito ba talaga ang tadhana natin? Kalaban ang kalaban. Kalaban ang kakampi. Nakakapagod." Again it supports the idea that we, Filipinos, are our biggest enemies. 

Another thing is when General Luna is looking for someone who is willing to fight for our country and invade the Americans and only one stood up and his name is Lt. Garcia. Out of all his people, only one volunteered to fight for our country. This shows that only a few really care for our country and that few is not enough or us to change the country. General Luna also mentioned that we need more people like Lt. Garcia. It is true that we need people like him who can fight for our country.