Cinema pandemia: Reflections on the underrated Netflix series La Révolution vis-à-vis current Philippine & international realities

Abstract

This piece tackles the underrated Netflix series La Révolution vis-à-vis current realities of the pandemic in a national and international context. Using data and statistics on the pandemic era in the Philippines and around the world, in combination with a social realist contextualization of the said history-inspired yet fantasy-imbued film series, this short article weaves numbers and stories into contemporary reflections on how the reel helps explain, inform, and even shape the real, through humankind’s dual role as not-so-passive viewers of the reel and as dynamic actors or subjects who are capable shapers of the real.