Erik Matti at Toni Gonzaga
PINALAGAN ng award-winning filmmaker na si Erik Matti si Toni Gonzaga dahil sa “UNBOTHERED” post nito sa Instagram bilang sagot sa pambabatikos sa kanya ng publiko.
Hindi nagustuhan ng veteran director ang tila pagmamalaki ng TV host-actress at vlogger sa gitna ng natitikmang masasakit at malilisyosong salita ngayon mula sa mga netizens.
Matindi ang naging pagbanat sa kanya sa social media matapos maging host sa proclamation rally ng presidential candidate na si Bongbong Marcos at sa ka-tandem nitong si Mayor Sara Duterte.
At mas lalo pa siyang nadiin nang ipakilala niya nang bonggang-bongga sa naganap na rally si Rep. Rodante Marcoleta, na isa sa mga kumontra noon sa pagbibigay ng bagong prangkisa sa ABS-CBN.
Kasunod nga nito, nagbahagi si Toni sa kanyang Instagram account ng screenshot mula sa socmed post ng isa niyang fan na kuha sa rally at nilagyan ng caption na “UNBOTHERED.”
Ni-repost ito ni Direk Erik sa kanyang IG na may napakahabang caption kung saan sinabi niyang “despicable, disgusting and really crude” ang naging stand ni Toni sa pambabatikos sa kanya.
“Everyone has a right to their own political stances.
“But when Hitler runs for office after slaughtering millions of Jews and you still support his bid, the least you can do is acknowledge all the blood he has spilled and with integrity, stick to your own crazy misplaced loyalty in private or in silence.
“The atrocities of Hitler was a history that has been written that actually happened and that no one can refute.
“In the same way the plunder and the horrors of the Marcos regime to our country the Philippines, that no one has claimed responsibility until now with the players still roaming around free, moneyed and powerful, is irefutable and a historical fact that cannot be forgotten and rewritten.
“The victims of both the Holocaust and our Martial Law were all real people with names, families and siblings that walked and talked the earth then and even survived by descendants until now. No one can ever say they didnt exist,” ang simulang pahayag ng direktor.
Aniya pa, “I cannot fathom anyone, who have access to the same historical facts from our books and Youtube like everyone else, can still have the gall to hold their head so high to the point of being so arrogant and obnoxious to brush away critics and dissenters even acknowledging and flaunting it with such an insensitive hashtag.
“That is just incomprehensible.
“To give your support to any political candidate whether or not out of affinity, blood or loyalty is between you and your conscience. You can do whatever you want with your celebrity power and God’s guidance because this is a free world, after all. But to be brazen, arrogant and snooty makes all of it despicable, disgusting and really crude.
“What makes you people so emboldened, seeming almost like untouchables, to never have the decency to acknowledge with humble bowed heads and with Almighty God as your witness, that you are on the side of what history had unmistakably and irefutably proven to have been part of the plunder and corruption of the Philippines then and now.
“Impunity and apathy run so deep in all of us. #bothered,” pagwawakas ni Direk Erik.
Maraming sumang-ayon sa IG post ng direktor, kabilang na sina Lotlot de Leon, Janno Gibbs, DJ Chacha, Ina Feleo, John Arcilla, Mikoy Morales at Direk Quark Henares na nagsabi pang hindi talaga siya makapaniwala sa naging desisyon ni Toni.
Komento ng direktor at movie producer, “I can’t believe she actually introduced Marcoleta at an event, the man who was responsible for shutting down the company that built her career. Hindi lang impunity and apathy eh. Opportunista talaga.”
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