REACTION IN BIYAHENG EDSA

I prefer Howie’s ” Biyaheng Edsa” over the rest not only because of its storytelling and technical aspects, but also because of its significance to the present times. Many of the students find the reading material irrelevant since they were not born in 1986 or were still young in 2001. Having watched Howie’s documentary about Edsa, which is a dear manifestation of his dictum “Make the important interesting and relevant”. The documentary starts with Howie at Monumento Circle in Caloocan asking different people how to go to Edsa by walking or without taking any transportation.Along the way, they meet a host of different characters including a group of rugby boys, a poet, and former political detainee each with a story to tell about the state of their lives all a reflection of the Philippine 20 years after EDSA 1. When President Corazon Aquino came to power in 1986 we believed then that it is not really human virtue that legitimizes political leadership. See the different between the past and the present. And there are the other changes that happen in our society. I have many things that after how many years it didn’t came up on my mind that its what it look like and how it look like. At Balintawak where the Katipunan is historically remembered he satirizes our concept of freedom. When Howie arrives at Muñoz , he zooms in on SM City North Edsa the first mall its kind in the Philippines. Any features on Edsa at present would not be complete without a take on the MRT. The 1986 Epifanio delos Santos Avenue Revolution were widely as Edsa People Power Revolution because it was where our astonishing had reborn.