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Amigo—movie review
- By Leonard Maltin
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- August 19, 2011 4:15 AM
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Amigo ought to be a great film: the subject is fascinating and still resonates today, even though it takes place over a hundred years ago. The Philippine-American war has been pretty much ignored, by textbook authors as well as moviemakers (but for the 1937 Hollywood movie The Real Glory). As a result, writer-director John Sayles has a lot of information to get across in order for us to get the lay of the land, and understand the central characters and their conflicts.
The setting is the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century, with naïve American soldiers (many of whom have never—
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