Today is the fifth death anniversary of Federico "Toto" Natividad. I didn't want to give him too much attention. However, watching Give Up Tomorrow reminded me of Butakal , a film released in 1999 that was effectively in limbo. The film was downright not wholesome, and accessing it requires extreme discretion like any R-rated film. The film remains banned from public screening. It seems he was content to let the film "go unscreened" if Case Unclosed's episode on the Chiong Sisters came out a year after the Supreme Court's final decision on his film. I was only able to see the film uploaded on YouTube, and it's no longer available . Natividad's film didn't advertise itself as the "Chiong Sisters Story". The story was pure fiction based on Davidson Rusia's testimony . The movie may have been a poke at the popular public opinion at that time, that the Chiong 7 were already guilty before they were proven guilty. It turned out t...
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