“ROAD TO KALIMUGTONG”

 The film was well directed by Derek Mes de Guzman, and it was a very nice one/. The show was really fun and very realistic. Fun because you can’t actually sleep for the whole hour or let me say you can’t be bored, because the film was so interesting that you can’t get enough to laugh. Maybe one factor of that is because of those characters that portrayed their role. One of this is Jinky and her youngest brother who shwon most of time in various scences. Another are their two brothers called “Tang and Manong” and their grandfather. Though I could say that because of its funny yet learning scenes, it is just so very over acting that most of the characters tend to lose the essence of their character in showing their emotions in a particular scene. The film was so nice not to be serious enough with the lines they have to say. Another is that some scenes are to exaggerated that you can’t seem to be enjoying a lot , though it is happening in real life that we see because of the lack of emotions that must be given out by the character the lines are not properly executed.

            The film is so nice that everyone must see and watch if they really look for a very realistic, simple and nourished the learning of one’s mind. It is realistic because you can see on the clothes, venue, characters in the story are real people who are really experiencing the life or the way of living in Barrio Kalimugtong.

             In their educational system, better facilities, books, school materials and most especially teachers who are capable of teaching the children in barrio Kalimugtong the right and standardized curriculum they need. Even with the medium of language they use in school must be thought properly. The place was so rural that I can’t get enough to pity the children to be learning so much in such case.

The Barrio of Kalimugtong especially those characters who played the role as family living with those kind of life must be thankful enough with the “sayote” and the family that they have. Why? Because if we look into a wider horizon, in  Philippine setting, in the other area, there are lots of poor family who cannot eat enough vegetable to sustain their starving stomach, and sayote is a much help for the family in the film in Barrio Kalimugtong  to eat and plant  sayote as much as they want. What I’m trying to point out is that they can survive in such life and they are more luckier that they can still feed their selves 3X a day compared with other families that cannot even feed their selves because of the poorest life they are encountering that they can’t eat enough meals 3X a day and even suffer from diseases.

MOVIE REVIEW with political analysis: 

In the movie “The International”, Interpol agent Salinger and his partner, New York Assistant D.A Whitman, are consistently stonewalled by local law enforcement in their attempt to close in on the bank’s insiders. They uncovered that I.B.B.C, an international bank, is buying large amount of weapons, and which it then sells to some terrorist organizations. The bank is involved in certain illegal activities such us money laundering, arms trading and destabilization of governments. The IBBC is trying to become the world’s bank that all terrorist and third-world nations use when shopping for ill-gotten weapons. But since the IBBC’s network of assassins and corrupt officials remains elusive, that justice comes mostly in the form of stale platitudes. According to Sallinger “Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” The plot seems perfectly suited to the dire financial times in which we live in, the opportunity is lost in what amounts to a competent thriller that becomes less plausible as it progresses. The plot of the film is plausible because international banks, such as the World Bank, and IMF, have the capability to control how a government could leads its people through the programs and rules that they make for some countries that borrow money in their banks. The IBBC is also described by Calvini as bank, which have the objective to control the debt that the conflict produces. According to Calvini, if you control the debt, you control everything. When we look at our present economy at the moment, we can see this is already happening. Banks are controlling the debts of third world countries, like the Philippines for example. The Philippines has gained enormous amounts of debt from the IMF, and so that the government could borrow more, the Philippine Government blindly follows the neoliberalist policies of the IMF, even though these policies may not benefit the country. The movie presented an international bank that does not only control the money of the people, but also controls the government. They control their lives, and as a result everybody pays. The very essence of the banking industry, to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals slaves to debt.