my LAST entry for litfili ^_^

Anyway, I would like share some of my insights about the movie MAGNIFICO. The first time I saw it, I really cried [ang bigat sa puso!! T_T] but the second time around [LITFILI CLASS] I just formulated some insights about some symbols presented in the movie. Like the Rubik’s cube. For me, it symbolizes their life. For them, their life is full of problems that are hard to solve. But what they don’t know is that, there’s a simple formula to solve of it… Fortitude and Patience…Like the Rubik’s cube, you can’t match the colors in an instant. You need time and patience to understand how to put them together. Second is the Magnifico. In class we discussed Magnifico is somehow like Jesus Christ. I agree on that because somehow, he became the instrument to cleanse everybody’s heart. ^^; he’s like the light in every one’s life esp. to his mother who feels like she’s carrying the whole world. That movie was very good movie to discuss in class because there are plenty of insights to share.

Anyway, This kind of communication helps a lot. Because of blog, we can write freely and interact with other people in a form of giving out insights from what we’ve wrote and comments. Giving out comments let the writers to explore more and write more because he/she feels that somehow, someone have even a little time to check out his/her works. ^^; I enjoyed this kind of activity^_^ CIAO!

blog entry no.8^_^

Chick lit…The first time I read “Getting Better” I thought that its target readers are women. It’s more on women’s issue for me because in the story, we saw three different women with three different features and characteristics. Based on I’ve read about chick lit, it features hip, stylish female protagonists, usually in their twenties and thirties, in urban settings [wikipedia]. The common setting of a chick lit is on industry that usually women are into, like advertising and fashion industry. In Getting Better, Sex and the City were mentioned. I think it is relevant because some of the characters on that show was slightly similar with the female characters in Getting Better especially Samantha of Sex and the City…she’s like Janice. For me the story catches the idea of the genre but I think Filipino writers must add some twist that is unusual that would show a real Pinoy stuff.

Info you may wanna read: The term was introduced by Cris Mazza and Jeffrey DeShell as an ironic title for their edited anthology Chick Lit: Post-feminist Fiction, published in 1995. The genre was defined as a type of post-feminist or second-wave feminism that went beyond female-as-victim to include fiction that covered the breadth of female experiences, including love, courtship and gender. The collection emphasized experimental work, including violent, perverse and sexual themes. [wikipedia]

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Crime Fiction…At first I was impressed because we have writers who writes such literary works. But after some chapters, my interest falls down… It’s like the author was spoon-feed the readers so much… That’s why it gets boring for me… It’s like some chapters became irrelevant because we already know what will happened. But the first 10 chapters catches the idea of a crime fiction… the elements are there…(should I call it elements???) like there’s a crime, of course the criminal who has a past that pushed him to do the crime and the investigator/tion. I like how the murderer kills the children (kaka-amaze lang…) because it is very unusual. For me it’s something interesting. The author catches the attention of the readers o read more because of that. At first I thought Arcinas was the killer because of what he did to Carding. The scene in the dental clinic was somehow a bit of give away because the readers already know that the suspect was from there. All in all for me, the novel, from trying to reach the genre of crime fiction suddenly fall down to i-don’t-know genre because of too much information and trying hard too much in making the novel interesting… but I didn’t work for some of us.

blog entry# 07 ^_^

Generations made me realized how blessed I am to be born in this generation. 1960’s -early1980’s was a blast for many Filipinos. Children of that generation had experienced such misery that affects their innocence and way of living. In our class discussion, I can’t forget the story that Ms. Dianne told us about the minors who sells their body just to have money to buy drugs for their parents. Take note… they are “minors”. I was shocked because I can’t believe that it really happens. I come up with a question to myself… Are the parents of the children thinks about the future of their children? Or they just don’t care as long as they have their vise. Are they aware that they were the one who leads their children to do immoral stuff? Like in the case of the girl in the story…she gave herself to bail her father…but…she actually killed him afterwards… WHY?! Yes, she hated him but after giving out herself to the soldiers just to free his father…she just did it? *headache* I can’t blame her… maybe it’s because of the emotions on her heart that wanted to burst out and the environment that she grew up with… But definitely… it’s still not right…