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The film 'Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon' accurately depicts 19th century Filipino life under Spanish colonial rule, highlighting issues of social hierarchy, misuse of authority, and communication barriers. It explores the main question of 'Who is the Filipino?' through characters that symbolize various aspects of Filipino identity, including passivity and ambition. The narrative emphasizes the contrast between those who embrace their heritage and those who succumb to corruption, illustrating the complexities of Filipino identity during that era.

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Reflection Video

The film 'Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon' accurately depicts 19th century Filipino life under Spanish colonial rule, highlighting issues of social hierarchy, misuse of authority, and communication barriers. It explores the main question of 'Who is the Filipino?' through characters that symbolize various aspects of Filipino identity, including passivity and ambition. The narrative emphasizes the contrast between those who embrace their heritage and those who succumb to corruption, illustrating the complexities of Filipino identity during that era.

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Reflection Video:

1. Describe the 19th century as represented in the film:

-The film “Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon,” set in the Philippines during the
nineteenth century, was an excellent depiction of Filipinos life during the Spanish colony. People
with the power to bend rules, principles, and even the law were shown, and one of the reasons
could be that it is driven by social standing, such as priests, they were considered as heavily
influential because of their connection to the government of Spaniards as well as their wealth.
Several problems were addressed in the film which clearly illustrates what happened during the
colonial rule wherein slavery and misuse of authority were so common that opposing those
potency people was considered suicide. Linguistics has also become one of the factors
responsible for ineffective communication and false facts, because those who work for the
government as interpreters alter the responses of every Filipino by inputting words into their
mouths; the large number of Filipinos have never been heard, never understood, and never been
provided with the opportunity to live freely because of that.

2. Based on your observation, what can you say about the film representation of the nineteenth
century?

-Very accurate, they really studied the quality and the original way of living in the
Philippines during the 19thcentury, also the way of speaking, the dialects are very accurate, they
also portrayed the way of executing prisoners and imprisoning innocent people without trial
which is very common that time, because without money you have no power at that time.

3. What is the main question that the film seeks to answer? What is your own reflection based
on the film and your understanding?

-After watching the movie, I was really amazed and quite overwhelmed by the emotion
of how Filipinos lived back then. Ganito kami noon, paano Kayo ngayon? It is the story of
a native farmer and the extraordinary circumstances that led him to discover his true identity. I
think “Who is the Filipino?" is the main question that seeks to be answered in this film.
Watching simply, I’ve realized how the characters easily symbolized Filipinos back then. Kulas
is the typical Filipino passive—someone who accepts whatever comes his way. Diding is one
that I also found interesting—an ambitious Filipina who would do everything to reach her
dreams, which was kind of rare during those times. She is empowered and is her own person,
which is evidence that girls can do something too. Yet the best part is the irony of the movie that
those characters who are doubtful of themselves and their Filipino blood or don’t have even a
drop of Filipino blood have the strongest Filipino hearts after all. Like how Lim helped Kulas
and the country relatively, which proves how big leaps start with small steps. On the other hand,
there is Tibor, who is Filipino by blood and could’ve done big things, for he is capable of doing
so, but chose to sink into the sea of corruption and still have the guts to claim to be a Filipino.

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