‘Heneral Luna’ — Of Generals and Generalizations

“Negosyo o kalayaan? Bayan o sarili?” These haunting questions will sound familiar to anyone who flocked to the cinemas in the tail end of 2015 to see the biopic Heneral Luna, starring John Arcilla. At the onset, Jerrold Tarog’s Heneral Luna is striking because it seemed to exemplify how Filipinos over the years, especially the elite class …