Review of Norte, the End of History (2014) by Colten S — 17 Nov 2014

With a running length of four hours and 10 minutes, watching Lav Diaz' "Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan" is so polarizing that it feels like it only runs for just about two hours. It has this spellbinding quality that will keep you hooked, a film that lulls its viewers to a series of poetic, dreamscape-inspired imageries and heavily philosophical dialogues exploring a grand statement the inside-out of humanity and the systems that surrounds it.