Slingshot
(2008)
★ 5.4 IMDb · 12 votes
Year: 2008
Runtime: 86 мин
Country: Philippines
Director: Brillante Ma Mendoza
Cast: Jiro Manio, Coco Martin, Kristoffer King, Nathan Lopez, Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Simon Ibarra
Plot
A tribute to the real potential of digital cinema, Slingshot is a slum epic on steroids. It weaves stories left and right into a shocking tableau about life for the lowest of the low in the Philippines poorest and most crime-ridden districts. National elections are coming up so in the usual attempt to appear “tough-on-crime”, The Big Boys have been sent into crack down on the the local squatters, thieves and miscreants who litter the film like broken bottle. And since no sweep is ever a clean sweep, the cops brutal shock-force tactics quickly ripple outwards with jagged repurcussions.