Anything that happens is a consequence of a choice; whether right or wrong, whether it goes against your instincts or not, whether it makes you happy or not. In the name of a happy life waiting for you across the globe and for the sake of seeking answers about your identity, are you willing to dare take extra measures and prepare to conceal the truth at the cost of your personal dignity and self-gain? Ivan Andrew Payawal’s “I America” is a dramedy about identity-troubled woman named Erica (Bela Padilla) situated in Olongapo City who, aside from growing up with speaking in broken and fragmented English, lived her life trying to keep her and her adoptive family’s stomachs well-fed by doing sidelines in commercial modeling and acting. Her story began to unravel after failing to get her passport and US visa, which was her only means to meet her American father personally. During the course of Erica’s quest to seek the truth behind her supposedly “foreign” descent and bloodline, the film managed to successfully toss in and re-experience the several troubles of an ordinary Filipino in this modern time. I America molded Erica’s character after knowing that the American “father” who he has …show more content…
Although suffering from extremely long periods of shaky and obvious instances of camcording following the daily life of the main character which wasted a good number of important minutes to the film and a handful of underdeveloped characters which rendered them almost unimportant and insignificant to the plot, the film still achieved to pave its way in making everyone realize that the truth isn’t always pleasant and irrepressible, but the manner of accepting the truth is a matter of choice -- you rather stand up, take it down into your throat and move on or allow the truth permanently cripple and screw your entire lifetime of existence gradually and
‘A Fabricated Mexican’ is a novel by Ricky Rivera in which he chronicles his life as he grows from a child farm worker to a Ph.D. candidate. He takes us through his journey in his search for his personal identity. In the book we find that his journey has not been an easy one. This difficult journey is due to many factors, most importantly the people who have surrounded him during this journey.
...le, abuse, pregnancy, money, accusations, sex, love, relationships, death, family and disagreements. These issues can be supported by scenes from the film but we could fail to appreciate the rest of this document. These statements are easily supported when viewing the film.
In “I Want to Be Miss America,” Julia Alvarez examines her adolescent struggle to be “American.” For Alvarez, her Hispanic culture becomes a burden to her inclusion in American society. So, Alvarez and her sisters, struggle to become what they are not, Americans. Alvarez uses a somewhat biased stereotype to identify the model of an ideal American, but she does make clear. The struggle of all American teenagers to fit into or molded by a standard which for many of them is impossible to achieve.
... being a story of an actual person in society who has gone through these adversities, makes the claims provided in the film reliable and trustworthy.
The entire movie is bursting with counter narratives, when the audience believes they hold an accurate grasp on what is truly happening, there is a misguiding event, as the storyline is continually challenged. The viewer’s beginning formations about what is going on are learned to be always questionable because what is repeatedly steered to trust and is revealed not be the truth in the conclusion of the film. This neo-noir film had multiple scenarios that make the previous actions untrustworthy to the actual message. This proves that all the observations and thoughts the viewer possesses are only relevant to what they are exposed to and shown and not to what is, in fact, happening.
This documentary as nominated for the Best Feature Documentary Academy Award. It showed the world the actual crimes and events that were happening in society that otherwise would have been overlooked after the initial shock. The moral, values and importance of these events being spread by mass communication can lead to awareness and hopefully avoidance of familiar events in the
Becoming an American requires adjustment to the English language and interacting with different people. In the essay “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood,” Richard Rodriguez illustrates the distinctions between individual and social identity as a Mexican immigrant. He explains individual identity through the process of considering himself as an American citizen. Rodriguez also acknowledges the necessity of assimilating into the American culture and the consequences that follow.
Each mother had high expectations for their lives as they came towards America, and especially their daughter’s lives. “In America I will have...
That feeling of leaving his parents in the Philippines to go with a stranger when he was 12 years old is truly unfortunate, but his mother was looking looking out with his best interests in mind. She just wanted her son to get a taste of the American dream, and have a better life in America rather than suffering with her in the Philippines. Vargas’s essay moves the reader emotionally as he explains when he was finally successful in getting the highest honor in journalism, but his grandmother was still worried about him getting deported. She wanted Vargas to stay under the radar, and find a way to obtain one more chance at his American dream of being
The second and third sections are about the daughters' lives, and the vignettes in each section trace their personality growth and development. Through the eyes of the daughters, we can also see the continuation of the mothers' stories, how they learned to cope in America. In these sections, Amy Tan explores the difficulties in growing up as a Chinese-American and the problems assimilating into modern society. The Chinese-American daughters try their best to become "Americanized," at the same time casting off their heritage while their mothers watch on, dismayed. Social pressures to become like everyone else, and not to be different are what motivate the daughters to resent their nationality. This was a greater problem for Chinese-American daughters that grew up in the 50's, when it was not well accepted to be of an "ethnic" background.
... shadow of his narration suggests the significant influence of Joe’s bias on the manner in which the film is portrayed. The writer claims to represent the voice of empiricism, promising to deliver “the facts…(and) the whole truth” before the story gets “all distorted and blown out of proportion”, but his personality overlays the narration and his supposedly impartial retelling of the series of events contains opinions, editorials, and literary references all too reminiscent of a Hollywood drama. Joe Gillis, being a writer of fiction with an intense personal investment in the story he is telling, cannot be expected to adhere to scientific impartiality. Instead, he illustrates an essential tenet of storytelling and Hollywood mystique, the subjective nature of facts when coupled with human interpretation. Joe Gillis shows how a road can be more than a strip of asphalt.
It was a humid day in the tropics of Quezon City, Philippines. Cerene Jae Diaz was a three year toddler living under a traveling business woman mother and an engineer father -- not married. Cerene lived a simple life of being waited on by Nannies. She could fall, and one of her nannies would be by her side in 2.5 seconds. However, her simple life came to a halt that when she found out she was moving to America.
This film really focuses on the characters. Their thoughts, anger, distress, and mistakes become part of your mistakes. This deals with a father’s s priority and how he will achieve that priority by using unethical ways like torturing an innocent man. Bringing up child abduction and torture are
A Beautiful Mind may have been developed to be a crowd-pleaser as well as a tear-jerker, because you know this is a man’s life without falsities. It is blatant and true, that’s all. This film proves that there are still instances when Hollywood-produced, big budget movies are worth a viewer's investment of time and money.
...n (Director) mistakenly seems to believe can carry the whole film. On the strength "based on a true story", he has rejected attention-grabbing characters, an imaginative plot, and unforgettable villains.