MOVIE REVIEW: SANA DATI

Sana Dati was a film directed by Jerrold Tarog. This movie was an official entry at the Cinemalaya 2013. The film was about Andrea,  a woman (played by Lovi Poe) who has to marry a Robert, a former politician (played by TJ Trinidad) whom she does not love.

The movie started on the wedding day of Andrea and Robert. Having Dennis (played by Paolo Avelino), the videographer, hired by Andrea ‘s aunt, do an interview with her. Asking questions about the couple’s love story, how they started, and message to his soon to be husband. At first I thought Dennis and Andrea are secret lovers. But as the movie goes on, there were flash backs, revealing Andrea’s past memories with a guy that seems the one she truly loves. His name was Andrew (played by Benjamin Alves) also a videographer, they met at Pangasinan, and chose Andrea over his family even though it breaks his mother’s heart. Eventually, he died because of heart failure. As the movies goes on, we learned that Andrew was Dennis’ brother. Dennis doesn’t want to bother Andrea or make a scene on her wedding either. He just accepted the job after Andrea’s aunt call him. The wedding was delayed due to Andrea. She stayed at the top of the hotel with Dennis, talking about Andrew. Robert discovered she was there, and talked to her if they will continue the wedding. After the wedding, Andrea is asking Dennis to run with her, but Dennis decline, he didn’t show up to Andrea. The last scene of this movie was Andrea travelling to Pangasinan to visit Andrew at the cemetery. Then came Robert who’s been following her. Asking Andrea to go home with him. On their ride back to Manila, Andrea finally Admitted that he already love Robert.

CARLOS P. ROMULO

Who is Carlos P. Romulo?

During January 14, 1899 in Intramuros, Manila, a woman delivered a baby who nobody expected to be one of the Philippines’ greatest diplomats in the 20^th century. His name is Carlos Peña Romulo.

Little Carlos grew up in the town of Camiling in the province of Tarlac. He was a son of a guerilla fighter of the Philippine revolutionary government under late president Emilio Aguinaldo during the Filipino-American War, and also was able to experience the brutality during the time of Americans when his grandfather was water tortured by American soldiers and that left an impression on him for being a nationalist.

He became a reporter at the age of 16. He became a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was also the co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. He also served as a general in the US Army and the Philippine Army. As an educator, he became university president. And last but not the least, he is most known for being the President of the UN General Assembly.

He was also named as one of the Philippines' National Artists in Literature, and was the recipient of many other honors and honorary degrees. His most famous published work is “I Am A Filipino” which first appeared in The Philippines Herald in 1941, a month before he wrote the first series of eight articles that made him won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for journalism, where the famous lines “I am Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance – for myself and my children and my children’s children – forever.”

Sources:

http://carlospromulo.org/2009/04/i-am-a-filipino/

http://carlospromulo.org/bio/

http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php/Carlos_P._Romulo

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Carlos-P-Romulo