CANNES: The escalation of all feelings

Unusual for the light and color picture presented at the Cannes Festival of Filipino director Mendoza. The story of the film is based on real facts of the murder of a dancer called “Slaughter”, one of the many cabarets city gangs operating in Manila.

Several scenes, including a section of human corpses were deliberately graphic nature, ITAR-TASS. The peculiarity of the painting is its light and color. This limit escalation of emotions creates on-screen and a special room and psychologically very tense atmosphere, accompanying a long time in the brutal crime. Mendoza sees his film as both art and as a weapon in the fight against the criminal forces that now operate almost with impunity in many developing countries.

According to the Philippine director, this “movie is not for wide screen.” Mendoza said that he does not want to give “Slaughter” in the rental, and immediately produce a film on compact disks. I do not want to give “Slaughter” in rent, but immediately released on CD and will show in the student’s classroom, followed by discussion “- said Mendoza.

Putting the picture in the main Philippine filmmaker competition Cannes Film Festival, its organizers were reminded that the film is in a modern society is not only a means of entertainment, but also a powerful tool in the fight for higher values and, above all, for human life.

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