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''Dekada '70'' ((英語:"The ’70s")) is a 2002 Filipino drama film released based on the acclaimed novel by Filipino author, Lualhati Bautista. The film was restored by the ABS-CBN Film Archive. == Plot == There was once a middle-class family called the Bartolomes. The family members are Amanda Bartolome (Vilma Santos), Julián Bartlome Sr. (Christopher de Leon), and their sons Julian "Jules" Bartolome Jr. (Piolo Pascual), Isagani "Gani" Bartolome (Carlos Agassi), Emmanuel "Em" Bartolome (Marvin Agustin), Jason Bartolome (Danilo Barrios) and Benjamin "Bingo" Bartolome (John Wayne Sace). The story tells us about their life during the martial law in the Philippines during the 1970s. In 1965, a young Gani was fighting with his friend while they were playing a game in the street, their mothers came by to stop the fighting and made them stay away from each other. At the streets of Manila, there was a protest when the Philippines entered the Vietnam War. In 1970, the Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos won the re-election bid as a president. At dinner time, Jules and Gani told to them that they were having a Junior Prom in Manila. Amanda was looking for a job but his husband Julián stopped her from finding it. At the prom, Gani and Jules are dancing with their dance mates, Gani tries to hold her but she accidentally kicks him instead. After the prom there was a lot of traffic in the streets. A protest happened near the Legislative Building and large protests was the major cause when Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law, there were effigies burned by activists during the recent protest. In 1971 another protest took place in the University of the Philippines and Jules with his best friend Willy (Jhong Hilario) became activists that same year. Emmanuel begins to write illegal exposure and other kinds of banned literature. Jules and Wily joined a resistance movement and both of them made pledges. A large number of protesters started to demonstrate outside and they began to sing the Philippine National Anthem "Lupang Hinirang". The soldiers were outnumbered and the protesters were trying to push them away but they couldn't so they retreated back to their places. Just then a furious Julián explain to Jules and Willy and also learns that the writ of habeas corpus was suspended by Marcos himself including the enforced disappearance of the student leader Charlie del Rosario. Gani told to his dad to apply for the US Navy but despite Jules' dismay, he angrily explains to him that if he serves for the US Government his salary grows. Another protest took place in the streets which was against that United States then one of the activists tied up their own comrades into the cross. Bingo pulls down a flying kite and Amanda discovers that the kite is made out of newspaper which is for activists. Julián also discovers that Jules is an activist and he sneaks up to his room checking his rebellious pamphlets. He convinces that when Marcos was not a president that time when the government signed a treaty between the United States and the Philippines and has no choice to recognize the treaty. In 1972, Marcos declared martial law on nationwide television. He also included curfew at night to round up people from going outside to be imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured to death. Gani becomes a figure of shame when he made an accidental pregnancy of his girlfriend Evelyn (Dimples Romana). Two police cars escorted the Bartolomes to Evelyn's house. Evelyn's father asked Gani to marry her or not, so they were married but instead they made an argument for being the Bartolome's figure of shame. Jason showed his mother the report card but his grades just went down. But despite of that, he concvinces that during the first period, there was a high value of time. Jules came home late but he later went sad and cried for Willy. Willy was tortured to death when he stay outside at night, the people who tortured him also stabbed him using their crowbars to kill him and he died some time later. Jules wanted to go to Bicol to join the communist group the NPA for his exposure trip. In 1973, Evelyn gave birth to a baby girl and at the same day, Gani went to the United States after he was enlisted at the US Navy but at the same time, Evelyn went back to her mother. Emmanuel is going to the Bataan for his interview about the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant but Julián went so furious because he thinks that he started to forget the martial law and he might get caught also there were soldiers everywhere in one place. The next day, Emmanuel left for Bataan for his interview and then two days later the Bartolome family went to the beach in the afternoon. In 1974, Jules' friend and was injured while being shot in the knee and the entire family is extracting the bullet out of his knee. A few days later, he began to hangout with Emmanuel and at the following day, Jules left the house again realizing that he cannot stay there for long. In 1975, Bingo celebrates his birthday and they throw a birthday party in his family house until night. And after a couple of months without returning to his house, Jules was revealed to have been married to Mara (Ana Capri) and they both have a baby boy. At night, they were burning rebellious pamphlets to avoid them from being seen by soldiers but instead, there are carolers standing and singing in front of the house. In 1976, a group of soldiers arrive at their house for the search and arrest order led by Jules, who became a political officer. The next day, Amanda and Bingo released two of their own pet birds to fly away for their freedom, but they will know that those birds wil come back to them. At night there was a phone call, and Emmanuel was shock because Jules was subsequently sent to prison after his friend betrayed them by revealing himself to be an undercover government operative. He also survived from torture but instead he was also electrified and sleep on the ice box and in front of the electric fan while being naked. At Christmas Day, Jason went home late from caroling and he learns that there was no curfew, but he wants to date with his girlfriend, Bernadette tomorrow but his mother told to him that he can date with her anytime but not during Christmas Day. In 1977, Amanda learns that Jason was missing, she and her husband went to many police stations to look for their missing son all night long. And they learned that Jason was imprisoned for possession of marijuana but he was released for a few moments later and he was still missing. Emmanuel went to his friend and he said that there were three policemen who stabbed a young man to death, tying up his hands and salvage him to the dump. When he came home silently, he made a private talk to his father while a saddened Amanda sits down on the chair. While hearing loud cries, the young man was revealed to be Jason who was stabbed to death and Amanda faints. At his funeral, Gani recently came back from the United States to attend his wake, the three brothers went to his body crying. Bingo was still sad because he thought that he was still mad at him, he said that Bernadette wanted to introduce Jason to her parents during Christmas Day but he died. Julián explains to Amanda that there were thousands of people killed during the martial law. Amanda and her friends went to Jason's grave and she convinces that it is best for her to live without her own children because she thought that her children can die early, she began to cry and she said that Jason wasn't a bad person. Even though that he is a demon, he is not really a bad person. Amanda plans that she and Julián to be separated, she wanted to live alone and also she had a feeling from Jules when he is in prison but she wanted to be proud of herself. Amanda went to Emmanuel and there was a stage rehearsal for activists. A few moments later, Bingo informs to his mother that they will not be separated because Jules was released from prison. At the prison cell, the Bartolomes visited Jules for his release from prison while he was saying goodbye to his fellow inmates. In 1978 during the Batasang Pambansa Elections a group of people are parading at the city street in Manila causing a moderate traffic on the road. The Bartolome family started to join the activist group called the ''Kilusad'' group to overthrow the Marcos regime. Emmanuel went on stage to lead his fellow activists to sing the Lupang Hinirang. And then in 1983, the Bartolome family attended the wake of Ninoy Aquino at the Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City after his assassination and Amanda begins to join a large group of activists at the Post Office Building to overthrow the Marcos regime once and for all. The Marcos regime was peacefully overthrown in 1986 when the next president Corazon Aquino became a president until 1992. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dekada '70 (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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