Genus Pan

Film - 2020

6,0

28K

Genus Pan it's a movie with Bart Guingona, DMs Boongaling, Nanding Josef, Hazel Orencio, Joel Saracho Full cast. Directed by Lav Diaz. Original title Lahi, Hayop, runtime 150 minutes..

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Genus Pan of

Federico Tyst Querin

For Genus Pan Lav Diaz abandons - at least in part - that political dimension that has represented the stage of much of his cinema (think, for example, of Evolution of a Filipino Family, of Melancholia, of Norte, the end of history and Season of the devil) to no longer address the tormented Filipino spirit but, starting from this, explore that of the human being in general: violence, oppression and death - recurring elements in Diaz's filmography - are not the brushstrokes here which portray the tormented history of the Philippines but become constitutive elements of man as an animal (although, a bit like what happened in Journey to Tokyo by Ozu Yasujiro, History makes itself felt off-screen, as a side dish: specifically, there are some reference to the Japanese invasion).The result is a film which, starting from urgent assumptions - especially considering contemporary society -, concentrates its narrative in a "contained" form, considering the Diazian average, which does not allow the director to explore I base the themes addressed with the care that is typical of him: although aesthetically it is possible to find a return to the style of his masterpieces of the past, a raw and organic style which, recently, had been slightly neglected in favor of a more glossy and clean aesthetic (emblematic, in this sense, is the "colossal" Lullaby to the sorrowful mystery), narratively the director stumbles upon a deleterious synthesis which clips the wings of a dry, minimal plot which would have needed, almost paradoxically, the classic Diazian duration to penetrate in the soul of the spectator. Read all

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Three illegal miners journey back to their island after months of toiling in hellish conditions. With their hard-earned money, they traversed the sea, the mountains and the forest until they reached their destination. Or did they really reach their cursed place?