Amigo is a Must Go
Anyone who is interested in learning a bit of history about the Philippines and our relationship with the US, should go see this movie. The characters didn't succumb to stereotypes, that they are complex in their struggles during war and peace which in some ways echoes the current situation that the US is in the Middle East. Joel Torre played an excellent Amigo and portrayed his role as a sympathetic character caught in moral dillema.
As a Filipina, I'm not only watching the plot of the movie, I was also hearing the words in Tagalog and reading the translated English and how the translation is far from what was said in Tagalog. There is the Chinese, American, Spanish relationship with the Filipino that highlights the seed of what class struggles is all about in the country. Then there are the outfits! I loved them. The cinematography made me feel homesick: the expansive rice fields, the bamboo forests, the carabaos, the clothes washed in the creek.
You must this movie!