@lorien..rhoads I feel so bad for her #birthratedecline #weaponizedincompentence #badhusbands #storytime #motherhoodunfiltered
Ghad. I’m much happier this way. I’ve been a single mom while married ever since so it’s basically the same minus the burden of having to take care of and accommodate a man-child in your life.
I feel bad for all of us women who are treated this way.
We just came from watching Jerrold Tarog’s Quezon at SM Cinemas.
“I am the Philippines!” shouted Manuel L. Quezon, the country’s commonwealth president.
Very apt, that monologue he did as he was being wheeled inside the Malinta Tunnel in Corregidor has double-meaning. Quezon is the Philippines, his love for her, his grand designs on her, and the movie itself—it is a good representation of what makes the Philippines the Philippines: Everything is dirty.
This movie was creative in the way how Quezon manipulated everyone like it was a game of Trip to Jerusalem. *cue the tango music* It was comical yet dark. It showed how the Americans fueled patronage politics all over the Philippines that plagues us to this day. How Uncle Sam is starting to flex his imperialistic muscles. Quezon and Osmeña played dirty because that was the system they were operating in and the kind of system that imprisoned them.
You don’t win elections if you’re not a politico. And politicos are dirty. They have to be. That’s why Leni Robredo didn’t stand a chance, she doesn’t play politics well. It’s a dirty game of chess, a smart poker game.
I am the Philippines!
Yes, the movie is very much the Philippines. No one is a hero, no one is a villain.
Even Aguinaldo was given a small window to redeem himself at the end.