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The movie fan on the spot also counts off with satisfaction the music videos Chiara Brasi has made, adding to the mix the songs of the up-and-coming folkie/ska group, the Osmond Others, and the Muslim-American girl band Averroes’s Search (three gorgeous sisters discovered in a mosque in Detroit), and the music of several Nico wannabes, mostly pleasant Scandinavian art students.
Et cetera. A history in ellipses, too obscure to know. Not to mention the words in quotes and not. “Insurgents” are in quotes. Insurrection is not. Rebel is a problematic term. History is not fully annotated or adequately contemplated in online archives. The puzzling duplication becomes mere trope, a cliché. Photographic captions rebuke losers and winners alike. “Soldiers,” for instance, refer only to white males. “Burned” does not suggest who has done the burning. “Firefighting measures” is a generous term, given the circumstances.
Magsalin’s uncles keep explaining the country to her as if she does not know it.
Anyhow, she proclaims to her peers at one of their utensil-deficient dinners as she strokes a mangled piece of pork with her thumb and forefinger—“Everybody is messed up and occupied by others! Even if you are not Filipino! We are all creatures of translation, parallel chapters repeating in a universal void!”
No Americans were harmed in the making of their colony, the Philippines.
Insurrecto is a misnomer. Revolution is a dream.
