A movie of social relevance †Sigwa Essay

Sigwa began with Dolly (Dawn Zulueta, Megan Young) returning to the Philippines to look for her long lost daughter. She was a Filipino-American journalist sent to the Philippines in the 1970s to write about the rising social unrest at that time. But subsequently, she found herself being recruited to the revolutionary and underground youth group Kabataang Makabayan. trance looking for her daughter, Dolly is also reunited with her fellow comrades, almost 40 years since they last saw each other.They were Rading (Jaime Pebanco, Jay Aquitania) an urban poor out-of-school-youth activist, Oliver (Tirso Cruz III, Marvin Agustin) an arrested student activist who later became a presidential spokesman, Azon (Gina Alajar, Lovi Poe) who grew frail and weak caused by the trauma of the rape when she was arrested, and Cita (Zsa Zsa Padilla, Pauleen Luna), once a student activist now a leader of the rising Peoples Army. Sigwa was simply amazing.The cast was great as well as their portrayal of thei r roles. It seemed so real. After watch Sigwa, I have agnize that the movie provided more than just a retrospect of Philippine autobiography. It also brought me back to the First Quarter Storm of the year 1970, where I have witnessed warlike Law through the lives led by six young activists. It is more than just a commemorative film it had relived the tempest of our countrys news report and allowed us to reflect about its significance in the present.Sigwa gave us only a glimpse of how the Filipinos in the past have struggled to attain democracy, to relive the history of the Filipinos struggle against Martial Law, and to show our continuing aspiration for democracy, peace and justice. And yet through the movie, I had reflected from the countrys history how we continuously try to take a leak total democracy today that the recurring problems about democracy that we are facing today are also the same in the past watching the movie enlightened me more about the Martial Law and the ev ents that took place during the First Quarter Storm.