ST Exposure

A film opens with a torture scene- a man is tied to a chair, insisting his innocence while his captors force him to confess that he is a communist. Less than a minute later, the film ends with a dim lit, out of focus, skewed shot of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's framed picture hanging on a wall. The film ends suggesting that the torturing is not over.

Reliance on military strength and the abuse of power are typical indications of a regime's desperation and imminent death. It shelters itself under the echo of bullets, violence and the suppression of people's rights and freedom in order to keep its grip to power.