Imelda - Power, Myth, Illusion
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Author: Imelda Marcos, Ramona S. DiazDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Unitle Pictures Inc. Lcc
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Movie Review: The Triumph of Beauty
Summary: 5 Stars
I gave the above title with reference to Ralph Cowan's portrait of the radiant Imelda in the mid 80's. She was at the pinnacle of power at that time and just a few months after, her entire empire collapsed before leaving her exile in another place in the planet.
Imelda is a fascinating and an extremely complex character. She has been a victim of mud slinging and spatting for a number of years now. But as Ralph Cowan aptly named a portrait, Imelda has triumphed time and time again. With sheer determination, her beauty has been her scourge and weapon, but in the end.She has triumphed.
I met Imelda through my best pal in 1996. She has an uncanny ability to draw attention to herself and be surrounded by people and I just strangely found myself falling in love with her. Love, yes, she loved that word. You can hear her say loudly words such as beauty, love, goodness, peace over and over again. She is the goddess of beauty and love.
Over the years, Imelda has been associated with frivolity, luxury, superficiality, corruption but layers beneath that people don't understand lies one if not the best success stories ever, better than the story of Cinderella. Born to a not-so-rich branch of the powerful Romualdez dynasty, she climbed to the super jetset rich status that she is right now and became the first lady of the land.
As Eva Kalaw said, she put the Philippines in the map whether positively or negatively, has hobbed-nobbed with Khadaffy, the Aga-Khan, Farah Diva, Mao-Tse Tung, Nixon, Saddam Hussein and the list goes on. There is not a single person from that country who's more famous and whose first name evokes multitude of feelings than Imelda. Imelda has put the Philippines in the map, everywhere you go now, very rarely do people hate her. Acquitted in New York and the lower courts in the Philippines, leave her alone. She's 76 now but still makng waves.
This documentary was actually filmed in the mid 90's when Imelda was in her mid 60 but still she's a knockout. The masses of jet black hair swept to the side in a chignon, the flawless complexion (one has to see this woman in person to believe me. Even in old age, her skin is so luminous and beautiful, no make up is needed. She is serenely lovely.
This documentary is not as comprehensive as it should be. It's just dissected into different sections but isn't brave enough o tred unexplored territories in Imelda's life. Read Katherine Ellison or Paterson's biography. But for a visual treat, this DVD is magnificent and fascinating. She is so engaging "It isn't expensive to be beautiful, it takes only a little effort to be presentable, but it takes a lot of effort. and E for effort. But unfortunately, people think of beauty as luxury, as frivolity, No! beauty is a discipline, it's art, it's harmony. Its love and God made real" Might sound crazy but think of it in a deeper sense and thought, she's right!
Imelda is one of the most beautiful women in the world. Perhaps for most Filipinos, she isn't (their concept of what's beautiful is Julia Roberts or Demi Moore yuck!), they tend to see Causcasian as beautiful. Imelda has a frozen perfection, not sexual. Hers is face and body that on wont be tempted to reach and ruffle. She is a classic beauty even with fluctuation of weight, is still mesmerizing. One remarked that when he saw Imelda in Persepolis, he couldn't sleep. It was like dream, a vision.
The dvd is worth watching for there's no real documentary about the first lady except this one. It's proven now that it isn't Imelda who is the problem. Look at politics now, compared to Imelda, they look so tawdry and evil.
So there you are,Imelda you are amazing, and don't worry about this documentary. It doesn't present you in a bad light, in fact, it just made you more fascinating and we want more!!!
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