Evolving Perceptions

        The film is about Heneral Antonio Luna (John Arcilla) during Philippine-American war. The film depicts how selfishness is the root of all evil and how the Filipinos, especially those in power are fighting with one another rather then the enemy, which are the Americans. We also see how lies and rumors can influence a decision of a person. Power is the main theme in the movie. The film centers around how power is being is played and how it is used to influence and coerce people.   Due to the self-interest of the people in power, such as Pedro Paterno and Felipe Buencamino, they would turn their backs to their country and fellowmen for their personal gain. They would even spread lies and rumors about Heneral Luna that would eventually lead to Luna’s murder. Also, due to President Emilio Agunaldo’s self-interest of remaining into power and not letting Luna steal the power from him and Luna leading dictatorship, which is rumors spread by Paterno and ...

Based from the best selling novel of the same name by Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones is set in Pennsylvania, where the author grew up, in 1973. She wrote the books The Lovely Bones and Lucky because of she was brutally raped when she was a freshmen in college and she wants to send a message about the hardship and trauma that comes with that horrible experience. The film is about a 14-year-old girl named Suzie Salmon, who was raped and killed. It circles around the people around her and how they are trying to cope with her loss and finding who is responsible for her death. After her death, Suzie was pulled in the in-between, where she watches the people she left behind. The in-between is like purgatory, where Suzie stays because of her struggle in accepting her feeling about her shortened life despite the encouragement to move on by her friend in the afterlife, Holly played by Niki SooHoo. Directed by the Academy award winner Peter Jackson, who is famous for ...