Reflection: Heneral Luna

Heneral Luna is a 2015 Filipino historical film depicting General Antonio Luna’s leadership of the Philippine Revolutionary Army during the Philippine-American war. It is the highest-grossing Filipino film at all times because of John Arcilla as Heneral Luna and other cast’s realistic performances. This movie is really an eye-opener for all Filipino specially for the Filipino people who were controlled and dictated.

Heneral Luna really caught my attention. As well as, the attention of many Filipinos. Heneral Luna is such a great movie. This movie reminds every Filipino that we should love and appreciate our freedom that we are embracing today. Because during the Filipino-American war, many shoulders died and risked their lives just to protect our nation and fought for our freedom. This movie showed what is really happening behind politics. Government officials try to protect their names and hide their real intentions just to have power. And until now, this was exactly the kind of government we have today.

We need a Heneral Luna in today’s generation. A Heneral Luna that will fight ‘till the end of his life. A Heneral Luna that is wholeheartedly serve the whole country. Joven, he symbolizes the youth today. We are innocent of knowing the truth. We have a lot of questions in our mind. And, we have many things that we really don’t know about the past.