Philippine Cinema
First rate. Technically sleek. Over and above all. These are phrases often times used to characterize an American film. These generally refer to a film’s sound, photography, acting, story and production design. In short, these American flicks are number one in every film’s aspects. On the other hand, Filipino movies are generally characterized as sloppy and are just perfect to kill time (both for the ones in the production side and the viewers). More often than not, viewers would say that imperfection seems to be the rule for Filipino movies rather an exception. If an American film’s perfection and excellence is brought about by their culture of being what they can be, is this imperfection in Filipino films also reflected upon our Filipino culture? Superior quality is never a criterion for making our Filipino films. These films are often attacked as having thin plots, being weak on logic and motivation, being predictable and its structure being prone to digressions. Who are setting the standards, anyway? Why is the classical American cinema used as the basis for criticizing the Filipino films? Are the Filipino films still at the far end of the American films? Do we still need to go a long way to level up with the s
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Approximate Word count = 2739
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)
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