Comedy

1. Moro-moro

Moro-moro, also called comedia, the earliest known form of organized theatre in the Philippines; it was
created by Spanish priests. Moro-moro, or comedia, a folk drama based on the battles between
Christians and the Muslim Moros in the Philippines.

Impacts to filipinos: This theater play tells us about the struggles of christian and non-christian people,
which significantly brings us many lessons about how to deal with other religions.

2. Juan Tamad at Mister Shooli: Mongolian Barbecue

Juan Tamad at Mister Shooli: Mongolian Barbecue is a 1991 Filipino comedy film co-written and directed
by Jun Urbano. The film stars Eric Quizon and Urbano as the titular Juan and Mister Shooli respectively.
It is an official entry to the 1991 Metro Manila Film Festival.

Impacts to filipinos: Taking obvious potshots at contemporary issues such as corruption, feudalism, the
irrational aspects of Philippines' legislative process, foreign intervention in local politics, and election
cheating. This tells us the government during that time and how people suffer and deal with it. It opens
the eyes of the politicians and significantly contributed for the change in Philippine governance
nowadays.

3. Bodabil

Vaudeville in the Philippines, more commonly referred to as bodabil, was a popular genre of
entertainment in the Philippines from the 1910s until the mid-1960s. For decades, it competed with
film, radio and television as the dominant form of Filipino mass entertainment. It peaked in popularity
during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines from 1941 to 1945.

Impacts to filipinos:

It featured a hodgepodge of musical numbers, short-form comedy and dramatic skits, and even magic
acts, often staged inside the theaters of Manila. Bodabil proved the vehicle for the popularization of
musical trends and musicians, performance genres and performers. Thus, it tells us more about the lives
of filipino people during that time.

Melodrama

1. Soap Opera

It a television or radio drama series dealing typically with daily events in the lives of the same group of
characters.
Impacts to filipinos:

Soap operas' plots express a fictional reality that is inserted into a concrete social reality. The
representations built by the soap operas are associated with the daily life and social contexts in which
they are immersed. The images transmitted are highly related to society values and beliefs. Which helps
us filipinos relate more of what is happening these days and it is also a good mental and emotional
encouragement for us to reflect upon ourselves.

2. Ang sa Iyo ay Akin (International title: The Law of Revenge / transl. What's Yours is Mine)

Ellice is the beloved daughter of a successful businessman who is blessed to live a luxury life, while
Marissa enjoys a simple life with her mother working and living at Villa Ceñidoza. Despite the vast
difference in their social statuses, the two women become inseparable best friends. However, one
fateful night changes the course of their lives forever.

Impacts to filipinos:

Nowadays most people are being fooled by material things, this drama teaches us not to grieve to
worldly matters especially the wealth of others. We should persevere rather to achieve our dreams
without making oursleves into the hole of our own mistakes and negligence.

3. Bagito

Drew (Nash Aguas) is a teenager forced to face the responsibilities of being a young father because of
his huge mistake.

Impacts to filipinos:

Early engagement to adult responsibility like parenting is somehow very crucial and current issues
nowadays. However we should accept all those responsibilities in order for us to continue and be
successful in the future. Additionally, we should not run from which for it is not the right way to fix what
we've already done. We should always be responsible in every actions we do. "Na sa huli ang pagsisi".

Tragedy

1. Tragic theater

Annie (Andi Eigenmann), an engineer, wants to consult a group of exorcists and spirit mediums led by a
priest (John Estrada) to help her gather information about an old theater with a dark past before she
starts her project there. But things got worse when she left the circle and is now being possessed by a
demon.
Impacts to filipinos:

This kind of tragic horror movie brings us the significance of our culture and religion, this portrays how
filipinos are devoted to the Patron saints whom they praise and seek guidance to combat demonic
forces that might endure us. It serves us also a lesson for us to be cautious in doing such actions that
might brings us to be devoured by bad spiritual forces.

2. Six hours: Surving typhoon yolanda

In the middle of a broadcast about Typhoon Yolanda's initial impact, reporter Jiggy Manicad was faced
with the reality that he no longer had communication with his station. They were, for all intents and
purposes, stranded in Tacloban. With little option, and his crew started the six hour walk to Alto, where
the closest broadcast antenna was to be found. Letting the world know what was happening to was a
priority, but they were driven by the need to let their families and friends know they were all still alive.
Along the way, they encountered residents and victims of the massive typhoon, and with each step it
became increasingly clear just how devastating this storm was. This was a storm that was going to
change lives.

Impacts to filipinos:

This broadcast of a Filipino broadcaster represents the resiliency of the people who suffers specially the
Taclobanons who suffers from being devasted by the super typhoon. It shows the camaraderie of the
people to save lives as well being saved from this disaster. The hope and pain thereof serves us may
great lesson to be more strong amidst countless disasters.

3. The execution of Dr. Jose Rizal

This drama shows how Dr. Jose Rizal use his wisdom and knowledge to reveal the bad propagandas of
Spanish government before he was been executed. This served us lesson to be patriotically fight our
rights and be independent enough to raise our concerns without hesitation. We as a student we should
be better knowledgeable to surpass the challenges of todays governance in order for us to live freely
and with peaceful life.

Farce

1. The woman in the septic tank: poverty film farce

Septic Tank begins in the stench of the Manila slums, as a mother of seven (TV star Eugene Domingo)
sets out to sell one of her children to a pedophile, and an offscreen voice gives stage direction. The
voice, we discover, belongs to director Rainier (JM de Guzman), who is visualizing this, his upcoming
feature, with his producer Bingbong in a upscale Manila coffee shop, where they strategize how best to
cater to the misery market. “The festival programmers aren’t going to have it any other way,” insists
succès de scandale savvy Bingbong as they refashion the material, visualized as a docu-drama (“The film
will blur the lines between reality and fiction”), a musical, and finally according to the soap-operatic
ideas of Domingo, who plays herself taking a meeting with the filmmakers. The film’s dry punchline is
that each revision isn’t given as a gradual compromising of artistic integrity, but only as another version
of show business as usual. The novel and wickedly funny topic is mined for only a portion of its potential,
but a little ironic astringency is certainly more unsettling than by-the-book slum drama.

Impacts to filipinos:

Many of us is not fund of watching movies or dramas that doesn't catches our interests however the
movie hilariously portrays current issues of today while entertaining the watchers into its full content.
This helps us filipinos to realize such issues through farce dramas visualization and further gives us
knowledge while watching at the same time being happy.

2. Four sisters and a wedding

Four

sisters reunite to dissuade their younger brother from marrying his fiancee. As they interact, they face
the feelings and issues they have kept buried for a long time.

Impact to filipinos:

Four Sisters" taught us that women may be strong independently, but they're stronger together,
working as a unit for one goal. This is how we rule the world, ladies (or you know, ruin weddings), by
sticking together and being generous with each other's resources.

3. Temptation Island

The film focuses on four young ladies from different social backgrounds, each of them, for their own
various reasons, enlists in the fictional "Miss Manila Sunshine Beauty Pageant". While having a trip in a
plane they had accidentally crushed into land on a desert island. Which they started struggling to suffies
their basic needs.

Impacts to filipinos:

This frace comedy drama shows us the importance of friendship and kindness amidst an unexpected
problems. This gives us reflection as a student onnhow manage friendship despite of being competent in
school, we should not forget the real essence of learning as well as gathering relations with our other
peers.
Social Poems

1. Kasintahang Nilimot Na | Benilda S. Santos

Hindi mo alam,

wala na akong maibibigay

na anupamang gamot.

Ang umiibig pala nang tapat sa ibanagiging maramot.

Impacts to filipinos:

This poems reveals the story of a forgotten love, which gives as insightb to better leave than feel much
pain from nothing. This poems entails wise choice we can make in order to survive from a longing heart.

2. Tatlong hiling | Romulo P. Baquiran Jr.

Tumakas ang espiritu

mula sa bote, parang genie.

Pero walang tinupad

isa man sa hiling:

pag-ibig, pag-ibig, pag-ibig.

Impacts to filipinos:

We should not trust wishes it's better to work harder for the dreams we want to achieve.

3. Bayan Ko | Jose Corazon de Jesus

Ang bayan kong Pilipinas

Lupain ng ginto’t bulaklak

Pag-ibig na sa kanyang palad

Nag-alay ng ganda’t dilag.

At sa kanyang yumi at ganda

Dayuhan ay nahalina

Bayan ko, binihag ka

Nasadlak sa dusa.

Ibon mang may layang lumipad

kulungin mo at umiiyak

Bayan pa kayang sakdal dilag

Ang di magnasang makaalpas!

Pilipinas kong minumutya

Pugad ng luha ko’t dalita

Aking adhika,

Makita kang sakdal laya.

Impacts to filipinos:

The moral lesson it gives to us is about the love to our country. We as a student should do harder
because we serve as the hope for tommorow success.