Earlier today, the Grand Media Launch of the upcoming sequel to the historical-action biopic "Heneral Luna" was held at the Grand Ballroom of Novotel Hotel in Quezon City. "GOYO: Ang Batang Heneral" is set to show in local cinemas starting September 5.
GOYO stars Paulo Avelino as the titular Gregorio Del Pilar. With this film (the second installment of a war trilogy set during the Filipino-American war in the early 1905), the revolution marches on against the Americans after the bloody death of General Antonio Luna. The conflicted philosophies behind the heroic struggle continue, and becomes personified in the colorful character of General Gregorio “Goyo” del Pilar.
For many, Gregorio Del Pilar was a true hero of the revolution, but for some, he was nothing more than an arrogant henchman of Emilio Aguinaldo. Yet his willingness to give up his life reveals a level of determination and perhaps humility that cannot be easily dismissed. For someone so young and popular to face death head on, Goyo, as Del Pilar is known to his friends, deserves to be examined using both a wider and a more intimate lens.
As the second part in an envisioned historical trilogy that began with HENERAL LUNA (2015), GOYO: ANG BATANG HENERAL continues an attempt to examine our faults as a people by using the past as a reflection of the present. With multiple points ot view and the same characteristic freedom to move between historical tact and tiction as in HENERAL LUNA, GOYO expounds on themes of maturity and responsibility, contrasts the naivete of youth with the sobriety of adulthood, and attempts to ask questions about our readiness for the task of nation building. How does one attain honor when facing certain death? What should a man like Goyo hold close to his heart when forced to make the ultimate sacrifice?
CAST
Paulo Avelino
Carlo Aquino
Arron Villaflor
Mon Confiado
Epy Quizon
Alvin Anson
Gwen Zamora
Empress Schuck
Che Ramos-Cosio
Rafa Siguion-Reyna
Director Jerrold Tarog
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