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This documentary portrays Maria Ressa, a journalist who recounted the abuses in the Philippines under the concern of Duterte’s government.
By Ben Kenigsberg
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The death by a thousand cuts that gives name to this documentary through Ramona S. Diaz is the death of democracy, a slow wound that ends up weakening democracy too much to survive. And although this evaluation, proposed through journalist Maria Ressa, refers to the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte, the absorbent and multifaceted “A Thousand Cuts” presents the country as a testing laboratory for autocracy, and suggests that its experiments have great potential.
Refreshingly, the film is not only a profile of Ressa, who founded the Rappler newscast and recounted in an unjustified manner the abuses of Duterte’s presidency and the violence he encouraged against alleged drug addicts, but a kaleidoscopic dissection of how data evolves around the world. Country. It illustrates the ability of social media to lie and consolidate political power.
While Duterte dismisses Rappler’s articles as “full of innuendo and falsehood,” the film implies that such colorful language is a component of a symbol smoothing strategy. Diaz follows the campaigns parallel to the Senate of Ronald dela Rosa, a loyal Duterte also known as Bato, and Samira Gutoc, candidate of the opposition component. Pop singer Bato performs more as an artist than as an official.
But the big goal is Ressa, whom Diaz captures in informal moments. Follow Ressa as she gets off a plane in the Philippines, waiting for her arrest. Elsewhere, Ressa tells a brother: “The only way to be afraid is to perceive the worst-case scenario and adopt it. The film ends with Ressa’s conviction in June in a cyber defamation case, a component of a series of accusations that are widely opposed to her. noticed as an attempt by the government to crack down on information How many cuts are left?
A thousand cups in English and Tagalog, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes. Watch virtual cinemas.
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