I saw the trailers and posters of "Magnifico" posted all around when it was still showing nationwide butnthat was a long time ago. I even thought that Lorna Tolentino was the main subject and that her character was the one who does fgreat things. I thought that this is just like another Filipino movie that experiments on new special effects devices and a story that lacks its main essence.
At class I saw the movie and I can say that it is one of the best pieces that the local cinema industry came up with. According to the discussions at class I knew that coming up with a good story considers a writer of having to create somthing phenomenal with only the thingsn that writers possess. Those things can probably be the writers, interests, experiences or lessons learned from school. The story of "Magnifico" revlves around a low budgeted production, but with manipulationof the director, the main characters portrayal of their role made the environment of the story not affect the essence of the story. The great part is that beside from having a simple production, the director was able to come up with something remarkable that made all of the conflicts on the story flow together in one mode that makes undeniably one of the best peices that the local industry has to offer. Unlike other big budgeted action movies in the Phlippines with all the stunt crash settings and stunt performances, Magnifico was able to prove that makig stories is much more of the essence and not the elements.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
The Smaller and Smaller circles keeps Getting Better
Since I was a kid, probably since kindergarten;the astonishment towards books and how they manipulate a whole new dimension of worlds(I am not schizophrenic) seems to be the only thing boggles and lights up my imagination aside from Power Rangers and cool villains. When I hit 3rd grade, it was then I got into reading a lot of short novels ranging from reality, fantasy to suspense.From then on,I am an all time fan of short novels.
Those stories I got into were written by foriegn authors and not single one of it were of my own countrymen.Its a very good thing that phillit class has made digg into a few of Filipino literature. These two stories werer namely Getting Better and Smaller and Smaller circles.These two stories have are focused on the different aspects of troubles that inflicts people until today whether it be psychological, emotional or sociological.
Getting Better was the first literary work that Ive read that happens to fall on the category of Chicklit. Alhtough it was the first, it was a grand opening for me into the world of Chicklit(I am not saying that its better than thrillers and suspense). When I started fmlbing along its pages, its seems as if I am reading through a popular comic book.But instead of containing mischievous pranks and twisted short stories for kids, it has the break-up of relationships and the unusaul recipe of adult matters. As the story tackles about the modern and delicate process of going through a break-up, it unfolds a whole new dimension of humorous tragedies. And whats good is that it ended up in a rather unusual plot where the characters are contented with ther situation. It seemeds to be like a comic book for me probably because, of how immensely detailed each portaion of the story was.
The second story of Smaller and Smaller circles is decades away from being a wrok of Chicklit. But in a way it has also triggered my interests due to the horrible plot of a murder case and highly unusual people thattries to solve it. At the start of the story it seems as if Stephen King wrote a murder thriller but as the story went on, the ingredients for the delighfully twisted ending seemed to be thrown away of the chopping plate. Every vital information that leads towards the readers realting themselves into solving the puzzle of the crime werer given away like flyers. It had a good, plot and a very interersting flow until somewhere in the middle of the story.
I can conclude that the main trench of a bestselling story is jumbling thorugh the pieces of the story that makes readers push through until the ending. I can approve that Getting Better is a phenomenon in local Chicklit, but I cannot say that Smaller and Smaller circles is ineffective in keeping the readers guessing intil the end. Though I havent written any from of story yet, I think that both has done a great task in having great plots and so leading them into the topics of discussions at schools.
Those stories I got into were written by foriegn authors and not single one of it were of my own countrymen.Its a very good thing that phillit class has made digg into a few of Filipino literature. These two stories werer namely Getting Better and Smaller and Smaller circles.These two stories have are focused on the different aspects of troubles that inflicts people until today whether it be psychological, emotional or sociological.
Getting Better was the first literary work that Ive read that happens to fall on the category of Chicklit. Alhtough it was the first, it was a grand opening for me into the world of Chicklit(I am not saying that its better than thrillers and suspense). When I started fmlbing along its pages, its seems as if I am reading through a popular comic book.But instead of containing mischievous pranks and twisted short stories for kids, it has the break-up of relationships and the unusaul recipe of adult matters. As the story tackles about the modern and delicate process of going through a break-up, it unfolds a whole new dimension of humorous tragedies. And whats good is that it ended up in a rather unusual plot where the characters are contented with ther situation. It seemeds to be like a comic book for me probably because, of how immensely detailed each portaion of the story was.
The second story of Smaller and Smaller circles is decades away from being a wrok of Chicklit. But in a way it has also triggered my interests due to the horrible plot of a murder case and highly unusual people thattries to solve it. At the start of the story it seems as if Stephen King wrote a murder thriller but as the story went on, the ingredients for the delighfully twisted ending seemed to be thrown away of the chopping plate. Every vital information that leads towards the readers realting themselves into solving the puzzle of the crime werer given away like flyers. It had a good, plot and a very interersting flow until somewhere in the middle of the story.
I can conclude that the main trench of a bestselling story is jumbling thorugh the pieces of the story that makes readers push through until the ending. I can approve that Getting Better is a phenomenon in local Chicklit, but I cannot say that Smaller and Smaller circles is ineffective in keeping the readers guessing intil the end. Though I havent written any from of story yet, I think that both has done a great task in having great plots and so leading them into the topics of discussions at schools.
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