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Elcano y Magallanes. La primera vuelta al mundo (2019)
Awful and out of touch
Just as a heads up, this is coming from a Filipino, more specifically a Cebuano.
I am absolutely disgusted by this movie. It whitewashes history, and portrays my ancestors as the villains. It is yet another film glorifying white colonizers who STOLE natives lands, spread disease, and SLAUGHTERED THEM. This should not be the subject of a family film.
Just because it is fictionalized doesn't mean that it is okay. I know for a fact some children will see this (because it is a FAMILY film) and take it as a fact.
This glorifies some of the most monstrous human beings in the history of the world.
The move has the AUDACITY to portray the Filipinos fighting for their land as savages. When in fact, we had a civilization built up at the time, we had art, a dense culture, social classes, etc.
THIS IS NOT AN EDUCATIONAL MOVIE UNLESS YOU ARE A WHITE SUPREMICIST WHO WISHES TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ERASURE OF HISTORY.
Honestly, I am fuming. Do not show this to your children, don't even watch it. This contributes to stereotypes of multiple groups of POC, and contributes to the ideas that the colonizers in history (who were all white) did something good, because they obviously did not.
The fact that this move was even made in this day and age is disgusting.