Filipino Contemporary Film Analysis

Andrea Press, a professor of Media Studies in University of Virginia, once stated that “Changes in television images have not always paralleled actual changes in society. Particularly with regard to the depiction of women, we can see how social values mediate between changes in the real world, the images that become available on television, and viewers’ choices of television images to watch. We need integrity. To have integrity is to be sound, complete, integrated. To the extent that a person’s ethics and morality are integrated, that person has integrity.” Today, there is a great number of Filipino contemporary films which contain themes about deception, or somehow a fight between women over the same man. These themes were very evident in

It is noticeable that the story tends to be usually about household problems. Like for example conflicts between husband and wife, or a parent and a child. In relation to family problems, one of the reasons for their emergence is the involvement of a mistress. Melodramas with these storyline are prevalent and accepted here in the Philippines. This article is to analyze Filipino contemporary movies that make use of the theme of adultery, and these movies are said to be blockbusters in their own rights and to wit, The Love Affair (2011), No Other Woman (2011), The Mistress (2012), A Secret Affair (2012), Etiquette for Mistresses (2015), In the Name of Love (2011), When the Love is Gone (2013), Trophy Wife (2014), My Neighbor’s Wife (2015), One More Try (2012) and Lauriana

According to Money and Tucker (1975), gender identity and gender role together form the single, inseparable entity that is expressed in the formulation gender identity/ role. Gender identity is the inward experience of gender role; gender role is the outward expression of gender identity. It is your sense of yourself as a male or a female. Gender role includes everything you feel, do, and say that indicates-to yourself as well as to others- that you are a male or a female. Identity is a product of gender identification and it is a process. This idea was used by Lauretis and she said that the real task in this process is to display what women wants versus the treatment for them as social subjects. In case of film narration, it can be shown through movement, image, and gaze, and how women will act knowing that there are audiences immensely involved from different aspects like social practices. Thus, gender role and gender identity are not two separate things, but rather different aspects of the same thing. Together, they form a unity in each person’s experience, a unity that is inner and outer expression of gender. In the same light, we can also consider this behaviour as a result of the thinking that males are dominant over females. There are two factors why males are dominant over females. One is that women bear child and the other, women were assigned to take ultimate responsibility for taking good care of the