03-Heneral Luna : Bayan o Sarili

Many people sacrifice their lives at a young age just to defend their own nation .Nowadays, youth really recognize them about the only thing they really know is Aldub is that how you will show your love to each other or is that the kind of love of idolism not on national heroes but on the celebrity icon .Heneral Luna is a good movie to show the society what do national heroes done for us.

Heneral Luna may actually be just what we need to finally find the heroes of our times. The film breaks the idea of a hero – the monument hero by presenting Luna’s flaws that essentially is his humanity. In the film, we are presented with Luna – isang bida na kontrabida. A character far from the good boy Rizal or the underdog Bonifacio, far from the image of heroes most of us learned from textbooks.The film disturbs the idea of heroism – bayan o sarili? Is it really the question of our generation? Do we really have to choose between our country and ourselves? Or is it not that what we actually do for our country is also for ourselves? And what we do with our individual lives also serves the general interest of our country?

The film questions the idea of nationhood. Ano nga ba ang bayan? A very relevant question that continues to haunt our nation – in the context of the prevailing regionalist attitude, the struggle of the Bangsamoro people for their identity, and the vast labor migration of Pinoys all over the world. Sino nga ba ang Bayan? 

After watching Heneral Luna , I do realize that it's not the nation is our enemy but our own selves.It really depends on people on how they wobrk as an individual to make the country success.