Not known to everyone director Brocka walked out of the 1987 Constitutional Convention that drafted the Charter of Cory’s Revolutionary Government, this bore all the signatures of the delegates except Brocka’s. Aguilar’s confession has some grain of truth: Brocka’s death was all-too shrouded in a mystery of deception and betrayal, albeit coming as it does now already reads like a trope of an urban legend. “And why are you telling me this Lino?” “You have to live to tell,” Brocka’s answer. Two weeks later, director Lino Brocka’s death screamed on the front pages of the local dailies over a car accident. Director Lino Brocka was all of 52.

Source: Manila Times August 29, 2020 03:45 UTC