+BISAYAFILMS- x "Hinagunoy Sa Goryon, Chirps of The Tree Sparrow"
Part 1: Nahinumduman
After watching Karl Derick Sia's Hinagunoy sa Goryon, the most existentialist cinema I've seen in the entire Binisaya Film Festival 2019 Selection, nibalik kog pamalandong aning mga butanga:
Part II: Reaction Paper/Movie Review
1. Hinagunoy sa Goryon is a product of pure beauty, just beautiful world-class export quality animated cinema that I feel should be all over the world, picked up by Netflix or Mubi, generate taxes to a reformed Philippines in such a way that the taxes go to the Municipality Mayor directly, localist decentralized state where corruption is traceable, not a centralist state that is what is now - so that the taxes can benefit the lives of the artists themselves that create this tax-generating movie, that will have to be run in all festival circuits in the world.
2. Ang Hinagunoy sa Goryon's grasp sa subtlety kay maka electrify jud sa nerves, like I can still vividly remember blood or probably semen running all over my arms while looking at the animated scene of foliage against the ray of light ug gossamer just moving around, it was so zen. Just stunning. My wish is for Director Karl to work with Lav Diaz and perfect a Chiarascuro style of cinema, 8 hours of that I'm still going to watch. I watched Hinagunoy sa Goryon twice.
3. That scene sa katong ni fly kalit ang bird above the clouds with the strike of a light's ray is a memory I will think about for years.
4. The Existentialist Dilemma that reminds of the movie is the one from Socrates/Plato's Cave(?), where: would you rather stay in the cave safe but with the knowledge that you're trapped or would you go out of the cave and increase your life's net pleasure but with the risk of ruin?
This reminds me of the question of Jean Paul Sartre's Suicide. And the way the movie approached this question ba in a kind of kanang inato yet so Studio Ghibli level nga animation - adds even more surprising weight to the film nga I don't remember to have ever expected nga mabutang sa usa ka binisaya nga salida, nga dialect gigamit is bisaya, grabe ang feels jud, if millenials want so much feels nga dili dumbed-down pero di sad pretentious and pa "socially relevant" ang approach, you gotta watch Hinagunoy.
Like Leos Carax' Holy Motors, I think I'll be watching this piece of important magnificent collective of pixels and light and darkness compiled into an art form that is animation for many years to come.
5. The Bird Who Braved Being Killed Kay Maka Remind Ani Nga Nitsi Kowt:
6. Dear Binisaya Film Festival Organizers for 2020: Please repeat Hinagunoy sa Goryon next year and for the next following years, and I'm saying this not because I'm a friend of the animator, I don't know him, im writing this organically, not paid to do it, media are paid sometimes to like something without meaning so. I want this next year and I will pay again and you should listen to my small little unimportant voice because I am minutely, albeit atomically, a stakeholder in the Binisaya Film Festival, if I'm not mistaken, because isn't Binisaya partly supported by Film Development Council which is fuelled by my taxes and I'm a taxpayer, if im not mistaken?
And by the way ahhhhh: Did Karl also write ang binisaya nga text sa movie? Grabe ka feels ako na feel pag paminaw sa binisaya nga pag litok. Dili kayo lawm pero naay wapak na feel nako jud, enough ra iya algorithm or timpla sa lawm nga bisaya ug sa pedestrian level. Wasak! Again, Lav Diaz and Karl collab please.
Anyway, yes, please make this movie required screening for college kids. Although careful in sharing this animation to kids, though, since I feel it needs parental guidance kay medyo dark ang ending, which will trigger a question of something like: so damned if you do, damned if you don't? Yolo nalang, mangamatay rata? Dapat e palayo ang mga bata sa in-ana kay daghan nang suicide.
7. Solutions: okay so murag at the end of the animation naa koy murag down tones na feel sa salida, nga murag ni suggest nga, cyclical ang suffering sa taw because of a father's death, and probably because of ambition and discontent sa now, so mulupad jud sa langit para ma sunog sa sun like Icarus. The answer I got over the years of study on how to cope with depression and sadness and the absurdity and hopelessness that the movie I feel has is randomness. Just randomness! If you're stuck in a gridlock of full uncertainty, just take a random step because part of the game that nature gives in solving everything is to sometimes jump on things randomly.
It's all damned if you do damned if you don't out there, and if you're stuck the only way out would have to just be: use some little time to think about it, but then after a long time of being stuck, just make a random jump and nature will run its course. Or IDK.
Randomness is a function of nature that you can take advantage of to make decisions, like the decisions made by The Father Who Wants Out of the Cage in the animation, so use it wisely. Suma, imo man gani e shake randomly ang imong dice para mudaog sa sugal. Imo e shake imong bike kung mag hands free ka para mu stabilize. Imo hapakon ang imong remote control sa tv nga dili muandar nya mahibung ka muandar balik. That's randomness! Randomness can help you stabilize things if ma hulog ka sa loop of depression or anything.
8. Take heed of the wisdom sa things that have existed for thousands of years, like the Bible, ideas from the ancients nga time-tested na over the years and robust na ang ilang stability. If you're like the bird sa Hinagunoy sa Goryon nga naglibog unsay sunod buhaton, mas maayo maminaw kas imong Lola or sa mga ideas nga tested na by thousand of years kay although not a guarantee nga makatabang sila nimo, natural selection has made those ideas survive, which means you have more probability of success when you follow them. Ang modern ideas are so prone pa to iatrogenics or future harm. Hidden pa ilang damage. Awa ang dengvaxia and thalidomide, kita kayong benefit pag sugod, until later. Go back to the ancients. Seneca. Old Testament. Montaigne. The Stoics. Unless wa kay pa ki mu survive or mupalayo sa mga kasakit. But also remember: ayaw paminaw sa akong suggestion nimo kay I will not pay the price if the advice fails. I don't have skin in the game.
Never listen to anyone's advice who won't pay the price if it fails.
THE END
OF THIS MOVIE REVIEW IS NOT IN THIS BISAYA SHORT FILM:
