i be excite to hear that cesar montano have decide to make a movie in the cebuano language . ( not wouldialect a most filipino will incorrectly refer to it as . a cebuano and tagalog be a mutually unintelligible a french and spanish be to each other . ) but i be greatly disappointed when i saw this movie . be a canadian and of cebuano parent and i be optimistic about the revival of the visayan film industry when i hear about this film . i be far excite to hear that it wasn not another stupid action movie or melodrama a filipinos love these type of movie . but alas and i be short change . panaghoy serf a an ego trip for cesar montano . montano of course play the hero of the movie . and when i say hero i mean in the most stereotypical of manner while his function be to win the heart of a girl and lead the bol anons to victory against the japanese . his character have no depth or complexity . he just fit the hero mold . the rest of the character be one dimensional while they all fit their cookie cutter role . i be all for slow moving or meditative movie but this movie be just slow move . it do not really meditate on anything . just because a movie be historically theme and a drama and slow move doesn not make it a well make film . particularly annoying be the american actor philip anthony . his performance be embarrass . if montano want to revive the visayan film industry he should have really think this through . he say he want to make visayan movie that could compete at cannes and toronto etc . but really and this movie would have be boo and hiss at at such festival . to get visayan film into the mainstream consciousness he should have at least make a movie that would have attract audience and even if it mean sacrifice quality . obviously he do not think about or get information on what kind of movie garner award at cannes so an audience attract movie would have be at least a foot in the door . i be afraid now that visayan movie will not be make for a long time again because of this movie . if ever i say to a filipino that i want to see more visayan movie of course i would get an answer like and visayan do not make good movie . didn not you see panaghoy sa suba . of course this be ludicrous a it be one example of a visayan movie and probably the only example that anyone nowadays would be likely to see . an example of movie that be meditative and not just slow moving and be the tagalog film blackout or david lynch the straight story . i hate to promote the tagalog language a it be endlessly and unfairly promote and shove down the throat of non tagalog filipino but for the sake of call a spade a spade i say that blackout be a very good movie . these movie rely heavily on what hitchcock call pure cinema . image without word be use to convey the story . but i bend the definition a bit for the sake of these two movie in that these movie use image without word to convey the mood of the movie . and they do it very well . panaghoy think that if they simply take sweeping shot of the landscape then they have establish the mood . and what with so many filipino movie feature a die mother or grandmother .