The winner of Manila's Cinema One Originals Film Festival in November of last year, director Dodo Dayao's astounding directorial debut Violator is now spreading it's dark shadow over the Competition at Osaka Asian Film Festival.Travis Bickle said, "Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets", but quite the opposite happens in Violator. When a storm arrives in Manila it brings only darkness and, quite possibly, the devil with it. A series of disconnected snapshots into the lives of various people in the Philippine capitol reveals a deep, dark, dread engulfing the city. Death and religious fear permeate every scene before the film focuses on a police station and the struggles, both internal and external, of the men within. Things...
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