OFFICIALLY MISSING YOU

With the influx of foreign movies, it makes me seeking of the way a true Filipino movie is presented. Maybe it is true that there are still Filipino movies that are shown in cinemas nowadays but for me they are just copycat from the foreign movies. What I mean to say is the manner how the plot of a movie is presented. And considering those highly technical way of producing a movie, Filipino movies are not far from those foreign films which for me is not clear whether I should be proud of them or not.

Last Saturday, I have the chance to watch an FPJ film in our television and I realized how much I missed the way that the protagonist is playing the gun in with his hand, the low toned voice of the character and the scenic setting of the film which is entirely shot on the countryside. Nowadays, seldom one can observe such characteristic in most modern day film made by Filipinos. Today, most local films are shut in the midst of the city and tackle only a shallow topic such as flirting and other. But films of the past especially an FPJ film deals much with heroism, an icon for the poor and oppressed which should be shown to our youth nowadays especially that such sector of our society is leading to astray.

We can see modern day hero in our local films such as Lastikman, Volta and other but it is still far from what is the reality for they are considered as a fantasy. But in movies of yester years, heroes or the protagonist is portrayed by a human being or one of us which could happen even in the four corners of every household.

Socially speaking, movies have great effects in moulding our society and for this, movie producers, actors and actresses should be meticulous enough in choosing what materials is to be shown as a film. After all, the kind of movies that we are showing in our theaters reflects much of our personality as a nation.