Citizenry will see the light, but will first set out to polish key scenes in the 1986 chapter. There will be more introspection, more reason, more vigilance. Room will be found for a historic court battle, allowing for several more heroes and heroines of the finest mold, the better to tell a much clearer story. Probability of bloodshed will be minimized without prejudice to high emotion. Finally, Citizenry better informed, more fully in charged, more vigorous and wearing a younger face flexes over two million sets of body parts to overcome Leader.
Crowd scenes are spontaneous and natural, wondrously moving.
Coney Reyes delivers her most impassioned lines ever on a separate stage, as spokesman for Jesus no less. The closing scenes of 1986 may be more fiery and bracing like a Coppola, but 2001 s has a more mature, softer, more dignified texture, like a Merchant-Ivory. It can also be interpreted, worldwide, as a demonstration of how to not learn major lessons, and then have to mount a costly, almost crippling, tableau to correct an equally costly, almost crippling, mistake. All right, practice makes perfect. We say perfect endings, in the movies as in real life, should preclude sequels.