“Time and forgetfulness are the enemies of abusers.”
When novelist Filipino writer and journalist Felisa Batacan wrote “Smaller and Smaller Circles”, the crime story revolving around a series of murders of children was meant as a mirror of her home country. Even though it follows the conventions of a crime novel, the themes it touches are deeply embedded within Filipino politics and society, its “unwillingness to embrace change” as well as many other frustrations she and others felt at the time. Most significantly, the gap between the rich and poor had become extreme with an upper class completely oblivious to the world in their ivory towers and the rest trying to make ends meet scavenging food and surviving one day to the next.
Smaller and Smaller Circles screened at Fractured Visions Film Festival
Of course, the image sounds exaggerated, but the attitude Batacan witnessed and described is not. The differences...
When novelist Filipino writer and journalist Felisa Batacan wrote “Smaller and Smaller Circles”, the crime story revolving around a series of murders of children was meant as a mirror of her home country. Even though it follows the conventions of a crime novel, the themes it touches are deeply embedded within Filipino politics and society, its “unwillingness to embrace change” as well as many other frustrations she and others felt at the time. Most significantly, the gap between the rich and poor had become extreme with an upper class completely oblivious to the world in their ivory towers and the rest trying to make ends meet scavenging food and surviving one day to the next.
Smaller and Smaller Circles screened at Fractured Visions Film Festival
Of course, the image sounds exaggerated, but the attitude Batacan witnessed and described is not. The differences...
- 9/30/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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