Tuhog is a movie worth watching and criticizing. I am neither a good movie critic nor a good movie viewer. :)
I love watching movies but I am not good at it. Got it? Am I being contradictory here? Nah. Forget it.
I will try to be a little Plato here… Very little…mmm… small?... And slightly criticize Tuhog... Very slight.
Tuhog is a movie, an art, an imitation. In this imitation, lies another imitation. The movie is a story of a girl raped by her grandfather who was possibly also her father. In the movie, interviews were made and reenactments of the real story were presented.
The audience was given a view of what really happened and what were added in the movie. The movie in Tuhog was written by the interviewer with other things in mind. His main objective was to create a sex film and not to present the real story or what really happened to the victims. Thus, the movie in Tuhog had so many revisions which are too far from what is true.
Plato’s arguments in his Republic, were about art as imitation. The further the imitation is from its original source, the more it becomes unoriginal or unreal. However, in the case of Tuhog, the movie in it is an imitation of the rape story but with so many revisions in it. Thus, making it unreal even if it was based on the so-called original story. The movie in Tuhog is an art but it is a bad art. The characters involved in the rape story trusted the movie writer and believed that their story will be presented in a way that they will not be ashamed and that for the last time, truth will set them free. Yet the movie brought a big disappointment to the victims, making them victims again.
Whew. I am not a good imitator. I was not able to imitate Plato on this nonsense discussion. Hayy… okey… lastly..
Tuhog. Catchy title. Annoying movie within a movie. A form of imitation. An art.
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