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28 Wednesday Aug 2019
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Tag Archives: feminism
Bingoleras: Women and the Church
28 Monday Mar 2016
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2013, Bingoleras, Catholic Church, eula valdez, feminism, film review, iflix, independent film, indie film, Liza Dino, Max Eigenmann, Mercedes Cabral, Movie review, philippines
By Heinrich Domingo
Bingoleras is a critique of the Catholic Church and its views on women in the society. It presented loud, hypersexual, strong-willed women countering the church’s stereotypes. For a country that cannot separate religion and its state affairs, this film is helpful in making the public realize that women can be more than Virgin Marys. They are not defined by a male-ruled institution that makes people believe that their god is a man.
Mariquina: Being in women’s shoes
17 Thursday Mar 2016
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Barbie Forteza, Bing Pimentel, Che Ramos, cinemalaya, drama, feminism, Jerrold Tarog, Marikina, Mariquina, Milo Sogueco, Mylene Dizon, philippines, Ricky Davao, shoes, women
The society defines women as mothers. Surely, nothing is wrong with choosing to raise your children, setting aside your own career, and staying inside the house to do the “dirty” works. But, when you choose otherwise, you are seen as useless, incompetent, and un-womanly. This 2014 film talks on how being a wife and a mother are more often than not prescribed roles. It is a story on how a woman courageously left the situation she thinks she does not deserve. Her tale is told on a backdrop of the dying shoe industry of Marikina.
Reyna Christina (Queen Christina): Of femininity and beauty
26 Friday Feb 2016
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action film, comedy, coming-of-age, feminism, film review, independent film, movie revew, Pia Dimagiba, Santacruzan, short film, SIFFMP, Singkuwento International Film Festival, UP Diliman
By: Heinrich Domingo
A prepubescent girl enters the ‘women’ club as she joins the annual Santacruzan (May Festival). Her mother introduces her into a Filipino long-standing tradition that weirdly dresses girls as Virgin Mary and parades them on the streets like beauty contestants. She then learns that the world measures women based on the color of their skin and the size of their breasts. And although she resists at first and affirms her own understanding of beauty, she realizes that femininity is power. It is a gift and she is precious for being a recipient of it.
Love is Blind: Blinded by stereotypes
12 Friday Feb 2016
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comedy, Derek Ramsay, feminism, film review, kean cipriano, Kiray Celis, Love is Blind, Movie review, philippines, regal films, romance, romcom, Solenn Heussaff
By Heinrich Domingo
It is a shame to see a capable cast acting in a ridiculous plot. Derek Ramsay and Kiray Celis’ outstanding performance seems ill-fitting on a hastily sewed story. While Love is Blind lectures the crowd on loving outside physical appearance, it stereotypes farmers as poor and laid-back and artists as hipsters and unattractive. It is a film that assumes the role of being progressive while encouraging that there is a single definition of beauty. Irony and hypocrisy became this movie’s theme.
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