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KINGFISHER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND FINANCEHISTORY 12: The Life and Works of Jose RizalName: BENITEZ, Jewel Ann Q. Date submitted: 30 January 2020Block: Blk 6 (2nd Year) Rating: ____________Reflection Paper on:Jose RizalDirector: Marilou Diaz-AbayaProduced by: GMA FilmsThe 1998 film produced by the Fi...

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KINGFISHER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND FINANCE HISTORY 12: The Life and Works of Jose Rizal

Name: BENITEZ, Jewel Ann Q.

Date submitted: 30 January 2020

Block: Blk 6 (2nd Year)

Rating: ____________

Reflection Paper on: Jose Rizal Director: Marilou Diaz-Abaya Produced by: GMA Films

The 1998 film produced by the Filipino entitled Jose Rizal opened our eyes for the tyranny of the Spaniards. I’m quite amused that Filipinos have done such great film, and I never knew it, just now, until I met the Rizal subject. To start describing the life of Jose Rizal represented in the film, I firmly noticed that innocence of a youth. When you are young, everything seems perfect and beautiful, and everything is spoon feed— until you’re old enough to spit the bitter truths. The harsh ruling of Spaniard friars. I would also quite notice the ironic role of the priests in the film, where they are supposed to be stewards of God, but no. I would like to disclaim that, it’s not God that lied, it’s the church. I would also like to give praise the artistic cinematography of the film which adds “Filipino feels” as norm says. The child beaten by the priest is also to commemorate how Filipinos struggled just to live in their own land. In a nutshell, the life of Rizal (his early childhood) depicts the start of the historical treason in the Philippines. Based on my reading and class discussions, I can say that the film represents what we call the term “the fall of patriarchy”, where the patriarchs (Spaniards) is being thrown down for justice and equality, or for the common good of greater number. The film represents of how much can you sacrifice for the future of this land where your mothers and great-great grandmothers lived and carried in their wombs the blood of being Filipino. The film is more than just a film where it awakens the viewers to spark fire when colonialization is not necessary. It seeks camaraderie from Filipinos, not to be scared, to fight for honor and glory. It represents everything that is sacrificed for what we have today. The freeness, the calm— everything that we are tasting today is priced for thousand blood that poured during historical phenomenon.

On the other hand, the film that seeks to answer in my own opinion is— “How much are you willing to fight for today?” Today— and by that I meant us. Can we do the same thing to what our heroic ancestors for us? I think, the Philippines is divided today and by that, we are not ready for any colonialism that may occur. Judging by the past events, Filipinos aren’t united— and we are all fighting to each other. We are all speakers, but we don’t have listeners. I thing the film reminds us to unite, like sturdy blocks of walls glued to each other to defend against calamities that might occur. The film conveys the horrors that might happen in the future if the present generation stops fighting. We should still continue to fight for the oppression, not only limited to colonialism, but today’s oppression of the China, the discrimination of the LGBTQ community, the poverty, the corruption— you name it. These are the things that we should fight, but are we all willing? The last but not the least, my own reflection based on the film is that, we are all slaves of something that matters to us. Rizal is the slave for his loved country that he died for it. We? As individuals, we can answer uniquely. Some people are slaves of fear, some are slaves of money, some for power— some are slaves of hunger for knowledge, some are ignorance, some are slaves of love and some are slaves of nothingness. The film made me realize that the things that we are willing to sacrifice is the cost of the love to what is important to us. I’ve like to end with the statement I’ve read in Facebook, it says, “Nak, makinig ka. Hindi tayo lumalaya, lumalawak lang ang ating kulungan.”...