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　　總統一聲令下鐵腕掃毒，差佬打正旗號有殺錯冇放過。警隊精心部署緝捕馬尼拉大毒梟，罪犯就地正法，「毒戰」報捷揚威，不料沙展與線人暗中落格，將白粉與黑錢據為己有。飛鴿傳粉、尿片運毒看似萬無一失，烏鴉世界卻自有天網恢恢。收起《羅剎媽媽》（41 屆）的悲憫鏡頭，文杜沙以警匪類型動作寫實繼續其政治宣言：國歌響起，威武步操起首作結，一片榮光中，腐朽早已暗渡陳倉。獲聖塞巴斯蒂安電影節評審團特別獎。

A majestic film in which two stories easily fit. One about a filmmaker who is a little like Diaz himself and wrestles with the completion of his film and with greedy film festival programmers. And one about a religious leader. Also a little like Diaz himself? The films of Lav Diaz often tell serious epic stories, but they are still not entirely free from humour and satire. For instance in this film, Diaz takes the mickey out of festival programmers and also sketches a picture of himself that is not entirely free from self-mockery. The film has two or three stories (also a film in the film) and one of them focuses on the filmmaker Homer, who very much resembles Lav Diaz himself. The tortured filmmaker wrestles with completing his film. Despite pleas from those around him and from eager programmers, he continues to refuse to regard his film as finished. Alongside the story about a nun in the film on which Homer is working, there’s another story about the religious leader Father Turbico. Turbico leads a sect in the countryside that is primarily made up of young women. When one of the women wants to leave the sect, a dramatic situation ensues. By telling the stories in parallel, similarities become visible between Homer’s struggle with cinema and Turbico's struggle with faith.