Despite its innocuous sounding titled, “Watch List” is the harrowing
story of a Filipino woman forced to join a police-led death squad in
order to have her name taken off a list of suspected drug users targeted
for assassination by the very same type of death squad.
Starring as Maria, Filipino-Italian actress Alessandra De Rossi gets my
nomination for best actress of 2020. Filmed on location in one of
Manila’s poorest, crime-ridden slums, director and co-screenwriter Ben
Rekhi maintains the kind of realism rarely seen in films today. In
addition to telling a gripping story about a woman’s struggle to protect
her family, he lets a Western audience know exactly how it feels to be
trapped in a web of economic circumstances that force so many Filipinos
to sell drugs.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/09/05/watch-list/
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