BREAKING: Netflix Picks Brillante Mendoza Drug War Show ‘AMO’ as First Philippines Series

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>Global streaming giant, Netflix has picked up drug war drama “AMO” as its first series from The Philippines. The show was produced by broadcaster TV5 and directed by Brillante Mendoza. Netflix will roll it out worldwide from April 9, 2018.

>AMO tells the story of Joseph, a high school student who starts out as a small-time “shabu” peddler, whose involvement in the drug trade eventually gets him entangled in the violent and dangerous circle of drug lords, crooked cops, and corrupt government officials.

>The series stars Vince Rillon, an upcoming indie film actor from the movies “Captive,” “Fallback,” and “Bagahe,” and Derek Ramsay, a veteran of numerous movies and TV shows.

>Mendoza is The Philippines’ best-known film director, with credits that include “Service,” “Kinatay” and “Thy Womb.” The most recent of his three Cannes competition titles “Ma Rosa” similarly probes the milieu of small time drug dealers and the endemic violence and corruption of the police. A timely production, it highlighted the brute force of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial war on drugs. It has been estimated that since Duterte’s election, more than 3,000 drug dealers and users have been shot dead by police.

>“AMO is a bold and suspenseful show that has the potential of capturing thrill-seeking audiences worldwide,” said Robert Roy, VP of Content Acquisition at Netflix.

Now what's really interesting about this, is that Mendoza is pro-Duterte (he "directed" the two annual state addresses he's given so far). So you can imagine the critics are probably going to tear this to shreds for being too pro-government and anti-drug

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MANILA -- Award-winning director Brillante Mendoza has turned his cinematic skills to promoting someone many in the West would see as an unlikely hero -- President Rodrigo Duterte and his deadly drug war.

Mendoza has become a celebrated figure in the global independent film industry for his gritty movies exposing social injustice and the sufferings of the poor in his home country.

While critics have condemned Duterte's anti-crime crackdown, which has claimed the lives of thousands of poor people, Mendoza has filmed government advertisements promoting it and directed the broadcast of a presidential address to the nation.

"If there's one person who understands the situation, it's the president," Mendoza, 56, told AFP at his Manila production house that is full of posters of his movies and trophies from top film festivals including Cannes, Venice and Berlin.

"I know there are a lot of people who are not supportive in totality of what he wants and what he's doing right now, but if you actually have witnessed the real situation, this is the way to go about it."

Duterte easily won presidential elections in May largely on a campaign pledge to eradicate drugs by killing tens of thousands of people, warning the Philippines was in danger of becoming a narco-state.

Since he took office at the end of June, police have killed more than 1,800 drug suspects and about 2,600 others have died in unexplained circumstances linked to the crackdown, according to official figures.

The president has repeatedly insisted police are only killing in self-defense and that most of the unexplained deaths are due to criminals attacking each other.

But Western governments and human rights organizations have expressed fears about alleged extrajudicial killings and a breakdown in the rule of law.

Those concerns have been fueled by Duterte's extreme language and comments viewed by critics as incitements to kill.

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Duterte said recently he would be "happy to slaughter" three million drug addicts, and likened his campaign to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's efforts to exterminate Jews in Europe.

The 71-year-old lawyer later apologized for his Hitler reference, but said he was "emphatic" about wanting to kill drug addicts.

French newspaper Liberation branded Duterte a "serial killer."

Mendoza, whose films have earned him a French knighthood and a best director award at Cannes, declined to comment on the extrajudicial killings issue.

He also said he had no personal knowledge of such deaths, while insisting foreign critics misunderstood Duterte due to a culture clash.

"I would tell them you don't know our president," Mendoza said. "You are only seeing it from your perspective as somebody who lives far away from the Philippines. Because you are living in a first-world country."

For instance, Mendoza said, it was easy for foreigners to misunderstand Duterte's cursing, which he said was merely "an expression" for people in the southern Philippines where he is from.

Mendoza said he became aware of the full extent of the nation's drug problem as he researched his film: "Ma' Rosa," which won the Cannes best actress award in May and is the country's entry in next year's Oscars for best foreign language film.

"Ma' Rosa" focuses on a mother selling drugs to make ends meet who is arrested by corrupt policemen.

"I didn't know there was a huge problem of drugs in this country," said Mendoza, a former advertising production designer.

The two short films he made pro bono for the government have been viewed millions of times on social media.

In his ultra-realist style, they tell the stories of a father who misses milestones in his daughter's life due to substance abuse and a Filipina who is working overseas sending money back home to a son hooked on drugs.

literally who cares about this 3rd world shithole

Mendoza said he hoped the films, which carry the government's #partnerforchange hashtag, would help spur drug addicts to kick their habits.

Narrow focus

Mendoza said artists and Asians had a better understanding of Duterte than Europeans, who were only learning about him from the media.

Indeed, tens of millions of Filipinos from all strata of society continue to support Duterte and his efforts to contain the drug menace in the belief it will make society safe.

Many also see him as the strong leader needed to fight enduring problems such as crippling corruption, widespread poverty, a decades-long communist rebellion and Islamic militancy.

Still, not all Filipino artists back Duterte.

Actress Agot Isidro caused controversy when she described the president as a "psychopath."

Prominent filmmaker Pepe Diokno, whose debut film focused on "death squads" allegedly run by Duterte when he was mayor of the southern city of Davao, has been another critic.

Nevertheless, Mendoza insists the drug problem is so complex that it and Duterte cannot just be looked at through the lens of mass killings.

"I am not advocating that people who are poor should be put to death. But then, at the end of the day, we shouldn't only see that in that perspective," he said.

"There are a lot of sides we have to consider."

racist

bump

too much shit, not gonna read

I don't normally care for crime dramas, but this sounds interesting as I have basically zero experience with media from the Philippines.

tldr
also another drug war drama, who cares?

This time is different, drug dealers and yonkies are actually getting killed and the government isn't their puppets.

Brilllante Mendoza is pretty good, check out Kinatay if you want to see some fucked up shit.

>Brillante Mendoza
Those filipinos use spanish in a such weird ways.

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fuck off shill

>Mendoza is The Philippines’ best-known film director
never heard of him
they just want to victimize drug dealers, hey usa if you like them so much take them out of my country and fuck off with your "criminals firsts" international human rights groups

"Mendoza said he hoped the films, which carry the government's #partnerforchange hashtag, would help spur drug addicts to kick their habits."

What a way to showboast you have no clue about drugs and drug addiction.
Violent crackdowns dont do shit either of course. If you actually care about the topic watch what they did in Portugal.

Fuck off to Sup Forums

>they just want to victimize drug dealers
Not in the slightest. This show is pro-Duterte, anti-drug dealer.

t. clueless retard who has no idea what the situation is like on the ground in the philippines

Different solutions for different cultures. Duterte's purge is working.

"Director literally promotes murdering drug dealers"
"They victimize drug dealers!"

how deranged can you possibly be

Duterte is what happens when people get pissed off at a situation. At some point you gonna have to take drastic measures.
Based Duterte

Brillante isn't that fucking weird.

I've literally met a hispanic dude named Dole

Reasons for drug addiction are universal. But if you are so much of a troglodyte as to promote mass murder to solve a social issue there is no point of discussing

is the drug problem really that bad in the Philippines

gringo talking from his safe space
fuck off, make the cia stop supporting big dealers and maybe I care what you have to say
then why did netflix fund it? are them in the "dude weed lmao" mentality
>make political serie
>reeee dont talk about it
you fuck off back to Sup Forums, I dont care about those nazi larpers

>filipino show
>drugs
>gangs
thanks for representing true filipino culture, Netflix!

no one will consume it if the consumers are dead

what you're going to pretend is not that?

Why isn't other first world have a duterte leader?

I wonder how hbo react to this

what about the lady boy representation?

because they are the ones funding the cartels

Not really, according to statistics. But its just the usual. Focuse on drug addicts so you dont have to tackle real problems

Nobody names his son fucking "brilliant" in spanish speaking countries.

((((human rights)))) were a fucking mistake

Unless you kill a large percentage of the population you wont stop it. They tried crackdowns in South, central and north america and nowhere did people stop using drugs. As long as there is misery people will use drugs and the more you crack down on dealers the more valuable your product becomes, thus more poor people will go down that road. So you have two choices: Murder all poor people (not feasable) or decriminalization. The latter actually does help to reduce drug consumption

I wouldn't advocate it for any Western country, but it's working for the Philippines.

Who are we to tell them how to run their shit?

>then why did netflix fund it?
They didn't fund it. Philippine TV funded it and it already aired there last fall.

Netflix only picked it up because they saw the drug war theme, saw the director (only famous one out of the Philippines besides Lav Diaz) and thought people would watch it.

>Reasons for drug addiction are universal.
Kekoroni, tell us more about the dawning of the age of aquarius

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they "tried"
everyone in your country was making money from it

The idea that its not ok to murder people is generally seen as a universal rule.

And its not working, this is hardly the first time a country has tried to go about it this way

Mao ended the scourge of opium addiction by killing or imprisoning all the dealeres and addicts.

Emphasis on "all."
If you don't commit all the way, you won't solve the problem. That's why Prohibition failed, that's why the War on Drugs is failing.

MENDOZAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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ITT: post true flipkino

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huh? who tried what? And how do you know where im from

>The idea that its not ok to murder people is generally seen as a universal rule.
Many people would consider mowing down drug dealers as not being "murder"

Absolutely based
Can’t wait to see normies get redpilled by this show

Anything by Lav Diaz or Brillante Mendoza.

That's it. Flip cinema has never produced anything else of artistic worth.

>picking drug war series instead of true FiliKINO.

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It should also be noted that Diaz is a commie.

So the only two international Flip filmmakers are a fascist and a communist. Kind of poetic.

No, maaan, you just don't get it. We're all one race, the human race. One love, maan. It's universal.

Yes, the moment a friend of mine said they had 5 drug addicts and a fucking big time drug dealer in his rather middleclass neighborhood, I realized that drugs was truly avsevere problem
Fuck off to /r/philippines

IT'S THE NUTSHACK

WE

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>trying to melt an ice block with handheld blowtorch
Wouldn't this shit take like ages?

WUZ

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>Drug users
>Same values as a human being

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MAHARLIKAS AND SHIET

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Sure, in a totalitarian state where the police get to murder everyone you can reduce drug abuse. But at what cost? Look at many european countries, especially northern european countries. There is virtually no crime, and all without mass murder, why not go that way instead? You know, prevention, treatment and fighting poverty, to actually get rid of the cause for drug addiction and crime

>another third world shithole Netflix show about drugs

Holy fuck this genre stinks of course it's the popular one worldwide at the moment.

The only true FiliKino is OG Encantadia. Don't even try to (you) me.

>tried
lmao, arresting drug dealers and put them in facilities that somehow have an even higher drug concentration (spic prisons) won’t do much. How about rehabbing the drug victims?

>northern european countries. There is virtually no crime
I'm from Sweden and this is absolutely fales, same goes for Norway and Denmark, if anything our crime statistics are rising rapidly

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It used to be 9 out of 10 districts/wards/whatever smallest administration you can call are infested with drugs.

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In countries that are halfway civilized most people dont think that. Murder is murder and people dont stop being people for dealing drugs. Also, the Philipines have a much more serious problem with alcohol, why not start mowing down everybody who drinks alcohol

How bout just shooting them so we don't have to pay taxes for degenerates to MAYBE recover

and it still is

>There is virtually no crime, and all without mass murder
They are also demographically homogenous societies with small populations. Important factors.

does Brillante mean Brilliant in Tagalog?

Narcos should have been about the global drug war with each season going to a different country like Afghanistan, Portugal, Philippines and etc. Too bad.

No!

>Look at many european countries, especially northern european countries. There is virtually no crime, and all without mass murder, why not go that way instead?
Pretty sure you'd have to murder a lot of people to replace all the Flips in the Phillipines with Scandinavians, buddy. Or were you under the impression you could just magically turn them into Swedes?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Sweden

"no". The exception are sexual crime, due to altering definitions of what a sex crime is

On The Job was very good.
Joel Torre is a really good actor

It has several meanings depending how you use it.

>The exception are sexual crime, due to altering definitions of what a sex crime is
b-b-but Sup Forums told me it's cuz of all the niggers and moslems!

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The main predictor of drug abuse and crime is inequality and poverty. Not country size or ethnic diversity (look at canada)

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>42 out of 43 rapists are born outside of EU

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Flip here. The drug war is pretty bad, even Duterte can't really stop it at this point now. And keep in mind that the drugs people are using aren't harmless shit like marijuana, it's fucked up stuff like meth that drives people crazy to murder.

>There is virtually no crime
TOP LEL you should take a trip to a niggerghetto or something. We have low crime rate due to discipline and economic status. Still more and more drug addicts pop up in our capitals which is quite depressing considering the authorities does almost nothing to rehab them.
Thing is, around 8/10 crimes in Philippines is drug related. You can’t discipline a country of 100 million overnight. The drug war has provided decent results with a +20% decrease in crime rate in 2017 with even a decrease in murder rate, putiing it at a 5 year low or so. Lower crime rate will promote more economic and social development so what’s the problem?

All the graphs in the wiki show literally the opposite of what you're saying, like gun homicide, harrasment, rape etc.

>The main predictor of drug abuse and crime is inequality and poverty

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>jimmie
member when he was the savior of Sup Forums before trump came along? and yet in all this time the next swedish election STILL hasn't happened

He still is, but we're a pretty small country, it's not easy to get the same kind of energy as Trump and Americans do. And our election is in a few months

If you haven't seen this kino you can just get the fuck outta this thread.

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me on the left

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the main predictor of crime is % of African population

>sweden

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It never even got a limited arthouse run in America, how the fuck are we supposed to see it?

>Posting 5 year old images filled with made up stuff
/yawn

blumpf btfo
>dem trips tho

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I want that cutie to sit on my face.

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