"It is a propaganda", I told to myself while watching the movie Iginuhit ng Tadhana. Then, after the movie, sir Teehankee confirmed it. The movie is about the life of Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator known to every Filipino. He was known as the dictator that issued the Martial Law that resulted to the iconic EDSA Revolution I.
It was said that the movie was released prior to the Martial Law era as a propaganda to appease the masses and to "mapabango ang pangalan ni Marcos na sa panahon naiyon ay nababahiran na ng kung ano anong di magandang kuro kuro".
The movie was shutdown.
However, due to the influence and power of Marcos, he then changed the decision and the movie went back to the mainstream.
I say the movie was portrayed so well that the ordinary people would think of it as "just another good movie in the mainstream with actors and actresses they love and adore". But for critical thinkers, they will see the biased story line of the movie. Yes, it really is a propaganda because the movie denounced the accusations to Marcos. However, the people who think this way could be the opposition to Mr. Marcos. Thus, pitting their own bias to it.
Therefore, one may not say this movie is biased, even me, because our thinking has a pre-set already or has been influenced by another idea, a person or an event that made us think this way.
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