Leave It For Tomorrow, for Night Has Fallen (2014) - Jet Leyco

Jet Leyco's Leave It For Tomorrow, For Night Has Fallen is a somber portrait of the Philippines during the days of President Marcos, a time where censorship, intimidation, and violence ruled over Asia's oldest standing democracy.  Reconstructing the past based off of fuzzy childhood memories, Leyco's film is constructed the three stories:  A wedding being captured by an amateur videographer that subtlely alludes to the instability in the region, a group of community rebels centered around a homosexual soldier alluding to the oppression of the individual, and a priest hidnig behind his robe as he sexually abuses his young pupil, "educating him on sexuality".  Taking on a dream-like atmosphere, Leave It For Tomorrow, For Night Has Fallen is a transfixing examination of an oppressive regime, dissecting how imagination and creativity can be a byproduct of censorship.  With an omnious, transfixing sense of atmosphere, Leave It For Tomorrow, For Night Has Fallen is shrouded in slience and mystery, creating a true sense of unease.  Showcasing the supression of culture and censorship, Leyco even becomes his own censor at times, replacing gun shot sounds with something you would hear out of star wars, upending the immense seriousness of these stories in a way that perfectly captures the danger of such censorship.   Haunting, somber, and surprisingly playful in stretches, Jet Leyco's Leave It For Tomorrow, For Night Has Fallen is a one-of--kind experience that blends memories and past experiences to create an evocative portrait of a dark time in Filipino histroy.

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