Literary

06

Nov

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COVID 19 Virologues: Staging the Societal Plague

By FATIMA B. BADURIA & RAMON CHRISTIAN G. PLACIDO A COMMON enemy threatens the globe that preys on mankind. It is transmitted through physical contact, thus restricting close proximity. However, the virus proves to be more powerful than anticipated. Seemingly, masks, face shields, and disinfectants cannot obstruct its more profound contamination…

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05

Nov

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Pamilya Ordinaryo: A Painful Paradox of Poverty

By JUSTIN ANDREW CRUZANA AN INVISIBLE line is drawn when directing and creating films about poverty. There must be a reason behind the grotesque and an answer after the turbulence. Pamilyang Ordinaryo has bravely let go of the latter, but its gritty and realistic attempt to portray the impoverished people…

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04

Nov

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Hayop Ka! The Nimfa Dimaano Story: Romantically Rigid

by JUSTIN ANDREW CRUZANA photo taken from Netflix FILIPINO AUDIENCES naturally cling to wish-fulfillment than realism when it comes to romance. Viewers are lovestruck at the idea of multi-millionaire men falling deeply in love with working-class women. Hayop Ka! The Nimfa Dimaano Story follows those exact plotlines, spinning in its own…

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03

Nov

By Taffy Arella Bernales

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Tayo sa Huling Buwan ng Taon: Orbits Stuck in Reverse

A LOVE that dwells in the unfulfilled and in its inability to overcome a secret yearning is a force that dreadfully tugs and traps. Love does not always conquer all things, especially if it is an illicit kind. Sometimes, it just complicates things further and leaves one orbiting around what…

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31

Oct

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The Witching Hour

photo by MARLOU JOSEPH B. BON-AO/The Flame Do you hear them come? The rustling of withered leaves, And the marching feet of headless priests? The sullen song of a weeping woman, Or was that of the fallen soldier, Lurking within the thread of hedges? Watching you shiver, from the sinister…

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30

Oct

By Dawn Danielle Solano

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Third is My First: Rekindling the Flame

LOVE has no alarm switch, yet everybody seems to know when it arrives. Movies, paintings, and other pieces of literature can only shed little light on what love really is as its complete definition can rarely be summarized within an hour's length of a movie.  Despite the challenge, independent film…

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27

Oct

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Until It’s Safe: The Challenge of a Distant Love

By ABIGAIL M. ADRIATICO photo taken from Youtube LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP is hardly an easy feat. There will always be this sense of longing for the presence of that loved one. Video calls and text messages never seem to be enough to satisfy the feeling of loneliness that comes with the…

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25

Oct

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Melodrama Negra: Debauchery from Tragedy

By RAMON CHRISTIAN PLACIDO photo taken from Youtube DEATH is an inevitable occurrence; an unforeseeable tragedy that cannot be halted once it happens. It can arrive at anyone at any place or at any point in time. From an instantaneous gunshot to a malady in the body, death is always on…

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24

Oct

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Living for the Dead

photo by RAINIEL ANGELYN BUENAVISTA FIGUEROA/THE FLAME I know death does not make the world go away. After papa died, mama brought in a new world of her own. There was nothing too obscure to the things she had begun to do: her eyes gleamed at the sight of a…

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19

Oct

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Write About Love: Resonating Writers’ Voices

By FATIMA B. BADURIA  photo taken from Netflix  LOVE beyond the screen can make the most familiar expositions rise to unforeseen events as it develops unexpectedly—or dissolves abruptly. Within films, however, romance becomes repetitive and predictable, far from the myriad of ways it can exist in real life.  Thus, deviation from…

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