Supplies no end of shock, but an underdeveloped emotional core keeps the viewer at arm's length.
Slingshot(Tirador)
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Philippines · 2007
1h 26m
Director Brillante Mendoza
Starring Jiro Manio, Coco Martin, Kristoffer King, Nathan Lopez
Genre Crime, Drama
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A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Portrayed entirely without sentiment, everyone here is equally abject, from the crushed victim of a human stampede to the starving baby playing in its own feces. The mood of scrambling desperation can be exhausting, but the filmmaking is never less than exhilarating.
Boxoffice Magazine by John P. McCarthy
Tirador ’s frenetic style and locale will remind many viewers of Fernando Meirelles’ much-admired City of God.
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