"Magellan follows the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan as he embarks on his epochal quest to cross the Pacific--a voyage that spirals into zealotry and violence when he attempts to impose Christianity upon the people of the Philippines. Abetted by García Bernal's radically antiheroic portrayal, Diaz composes a stark vision of the brutality at the heart of European conquest and a haunting elegy for a lost precolonial past"-- Container.
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