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Sep 26, 2006 · Insiang’s defiant actions cast the film as a lurid ode to feminist self-actualization. But with his misery-wrought finale, and its tangled knot of obstinate, volatile, unfulfilled feelings and desires, Brocka ensures that any minor triumph enjoyed by his morally and emotionally warped protagonist is tempered by an overriding dose of bittersweet sorrow and despair.
May 30, 2017 · Insiang’s muscular, feckless mechanic boyfriend Bebot (Rez Cortez) is shown shirtless throughout, while Dado (Ruel Vernal) recalls Marlon Brando’s Stanley Kowalski, pouncing on every female in the household. It does not take much to imagine a gay storyteller like Brocka projecting his own fascination with the handsome, cruelly exploitative ...
Insiang is a tale of sorrow, betrayal, and ultimately revenge. What the synopses don’t tell you (spoilers ahead) is that the film doesn’t pivot around one act of sexual violence; there are three critical cruelties happening in quick succession that manage to push the titular Insiang to a drastic change of persona.
Nov 4, 2020 · Insiang decides to take revenge on everybody, in the cruelest of ways. Lino Brocka directs a genuine melodrama, which, however, is not characterized by the usual effort at forced sentimentalism, since the drama here derives from realism, and particularly through the urban poverty that is the main element of the narrative.
After a teenager is raped by her mother's boyfriend, she sets out to exact revenge on anyone who has hurt her. Director Lino Brocka Screenwriter Mario O'Hara, Lamberto E. Antonio Genre Drama ...
Apr 8, 2016 · At a lean 95 minutes, the film manages to shift multiple perspectives within its ensemble, all anchored by the titular Insiang ( Hilda Koronel ), an exceptionally beautiful 17-year-old girl tended over by her distracted single mother, Tanya ( Mona Lisa ), who’s still bitter from being abandoned by her husband and Insiang’s father.
Jun 24, 2001 · Insiang, a Lino Brocka masterpiece released for the 1976 Metro Manila Film Festival, has the distinction of having been chosen as one of the best films of the ’70s by the Manunuri ...
