1) The document provides a reader response critique of the 2016 Philippine thriller film "Birdshot" from a 12th grade student taking an English for Academic and Professional Purposes course.
2) The film tells the story of a 14-year-old Filipina farm girl who kills an endangered Philippine eagle after being taught to shoot a gun by her father, facing various consequences.
3) The student enjoyed the film for its well-organized story, good cinematography, effective use of color grading and music, and for accurately portraying corruption and how easily ethics can change under threats in society today.
1) The document provides a reader response critique of the 2016 Philippine thriller film "Birdshot" from a 12th grade student taking an English for Academic and Professional Purposes course.
2) The film tells the story of a 14-year-old Filipina farm girl who kills an endangered Philippine eagle after being taught to shoot a gun by her father, facing various consequences.
3) The student enjoyed the film for its well-organized story, good cinematography, effective use of color grading and music, and for accurately portraying corruption and how easily ethics can change under threats in society today.
1) The document provides a reader response critique of the 2016 Philippine thriller film "Birdshot" from a 12th grade student taking an English for Academic and Professional Purposes course.
2) The film tells the story of a 14-year-old Filipina farm girl who kills an endangered Philippine eagle after being taught to shoot a gun by her father, facing various consequences.
3) The student enjoyed the film for its well-organized story, good cinematography, effective use of color grading and music, and for accurately portraying corruption and how easily ethics can change under threats in society today.
1) The document provides a reader response critique of the 2016 Philippine thriller film "Birdshot" from a 12th grade student taking an English for Academic and Professional Purposes course.
2) The film tells the story of a 14-year-old Filipina farm girl who kills an endangered Philippine eagle after being taught to shoot a gun by her father, facing various consequences.
3) The student enjoyed the film for its well-organized story, good cinematography, effective use of color grading and music, and for accurately portraying corruption and how easily ethics can change under threats in society today.
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Name: Matthew M.
Angeles
Grade and Section: 12 – Resilience
Subject: English for Academic and Professional Purposes (EAPP)
Type of Criticism: Reader Response
Birdshot
From the movie that was shown by our subject teacher entitled “Birdshot”, a 2016 Philippine thriller film which was about a story of a 14 year old Filipina farm girl, who was taught by his father on how to shoot a gun, in order to learn how to take care of herself, she ended killing an endangered Philippine eagle which lead her to different consequences. Overall, I really liked the film because the flow of the story was well- organized, the cinematography of the film was very good, and the color grading of the film together with its music/ambient perfectly sets the mood of the scenes. I would strongly agree with the Director regarding about the message that he/she is trying to deliver since it is clear that people are being controlled by greed and equality in the eye of the law is no longer present in our society today. It also showed how corruption and fear/threat can easily change the ethics or moral principles of a person, even the most upright person can be changed by the influence of corruption.
From my point of view, the purpose of the director was to show the audience how corrupt our country has become and how the government has turned a blind eye to the different complaints of people that are under the lower-class society especially the farmers. The purpose of the director was also to show how injustice our system has become; how money can easily control the minds of our leaders, and manipulate the world around us so that we, the Filipinos would wake up and realize everything around us has become a mess, our government, our system, equal rights, and the list goes on and on.
But overall, I really liked the film because the theme of the film wasn’t cliché; if you would ask me, I could say that the film is very unique and extraordinary. The film contains different lessons that we, Filipinos could reflect on and realize something about what’s happening to our system. And lastly, the reason why I liked the film is that every scene/happening would make you feel the same way on how the characters would feel and it sets the mood of every scene making you feel that you are a part of it.
