Imeldific

Imelda Marcos, wise or crazy, beautiful or self-absorbed, evil or holy, generous or greedy, majestic or extravagant. Imelda is one of the most iconic personalities in the Philippines. People have had many views on this woman. To some she is the spawn of the devil. Even though she has been acquitted from all her cases, people still think she is pure evil. It is quite hard to like someone who lives extravagantly and uses the "it gives hope to the poor because I used to be poor" line as an excuse for her lifestyle. However, to others, she is like a loving grandmother, a saint, a beacon of hope to the poor, a bringer of beauty to the Philippines. Although some of these are obviously exaggerations, we cannot deny the fact that the case of Imelda is quite mind boggling. She exudes grandeur and a respectable nature, yet there's also something about her that fuels people's anger and instills fear. Nonetheless, it seems that she has remained low for the past decades and we could only hope that she and her children continue to do things that will help the country instead of causing it's downfall.

I really liked how the documentary about Imelda presented the 2 sides of the story and incorporated them together. Watching the documentary, I ended up getting very confused about my stand with the issues concerning The Marcos Regime and Imelda Marcos in general. The way I see it, the Marcos Family has always had good intentions for the Philippines; however it's quite impossible to please everyone. The Marcos Family has done wonderful things to our country but they tried too hard in pushing their goals even though many people disagreed with them. In terms of Science and Technology, I really believe that our country would have state of the art facilities to continue to make our country progress like the Bataan Nuclear power plant. However, many of their ideas and ideologies were executed in ways that did not appeal to the Filipinos. The family was power hungry and it gave the Filipinos many reasons to hate on them. Trying to stay in power and make things better only resulted to their downfall.

My hope for the Philippines is that we will continue to move forward from this time in our history and focus on the development of our nation while learning form our mistakes. Filipinos should aim to be more than just blind followers of a cause and be more critical about the choices they make whether it's about elections, social issues, or political regimes.