Amigo

Amigo (2011)

Amigo se centra en Rafael Dacanay, cabeza del barrio de San Isidro, en una área arrocera de Luzón, Filipinas. Su hermano Simón, jefe de la guerrilla local, ha obligado a la Guardia Civil española a retirarse de su avanzada y encarga a Rafael que encarcele al Capitán de la guarnición y a un fraile español, el Padre Hidalgo, en nombre del gobierno revolucionario. Pero cuando el General Aguinaldo llegan, el oficial español y el Padre Hidalgo son liberados, una guarnición al mando del Teniente Ike Compton permanece para "proteger" el barrio. La política de ocupación estadounidense evoluciona de “corazones y mentes” a “concentración” (lo que se denominó “hamletting” durante la guerra de Vietnam) y Rafael tiene que responder tanto ante los americanos como ante los patriotas filipinos, con consecuencias mortales.

Fecha de estreno
2011-08-19
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (19)
Duración
2 h 8 min
Géneros
Drama, Historia, Bélica
Director
John Sayles

Reparto

Curiosidades

  • Rodada en: Filipinas

Amigo is a Filipino-American 2010 drama film written and directed by John Sayles. The film takes place in the Philippines in 1900 during the Philippine–American War.

Development

Cinematical reports that the film was once titled Baryo, and that the idea for it came from a yet-to-be-published novel Some Time in the Sun, detailing American imperialism in the Philippines.

The book will actually be called A Moment in the Sun, though the unrealized screenplay which inspired it was called Some Time in the Sun.

The screenplay was written in two weeks and it was filmed over eight months on the island province of Bohol.

Sayles said the "amigo" of the title was the mayor:

The American soldiers were always asked, "Is he a good amigo or a bad amigo?" There was some irony to him being called an amigo. However, the complication in that movie that the usual war movie, you follow the guys on one side and the other side is the enemy. You root for the guys on your side and the other side is shooting at them. This is a movie where it's almost evenly divided.

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