EJK (Extra Judicial Killing)

“EJK” is not just about the dead bodies piling up on the street in the Philippines but rather its a film that forces us to literally experience the evil of drug addiction and drug trafficking, a Filipino society’s menace which resulted in many unexplained and unabated killings. The killings, the violence, the exploitative means by which people are used and abused are brutally captured on this film in a manner that spares nothing to unveil the atrocities created by soul-less people who authored it.
The story revolves around siblings BRYAN and JOSEPH RAMIREZ. After the violent death of their parents, the two struggled to live on the street, amidst the dangerous, exploitative and almost inhuman condition. They eventually were separated by the dictate and force of painful circumstances. Later on, Bryan became a police officer who would not hesitate to kill persons of interest who try to resist arrest . Joseph, on the other hand, became a society’s menace who who was exploited by a corrupt police officer named Rex Motabato.
The film will enable us to have a peek inside the world of drug trafficking . The sordid and fetid environment of drug victims and dealers. The drug that numb the pain of emotional, physical, mental and sexual trauma. The scenes of physical abuses and killings is discomfiiting and shown in flat details that do not manipulate emotion.

“EJK” is not a political nor a propagandist movie. It is just a simple sibling’s story evolved into one compelling film.