Gada Meilin is about a meilin (he who caters to people's problems, if I remember it right...Gada is the protagonist's name) who revolted against their government from taking over their grassland. This movie shows an arrangement between the Japanese and the Chinese officials taking over the mentioned land. I guess it's the typical movie where a hero tries to lead the men to freedom, but not as typical as what happened in the end.
I'm really in no condition to be poetic and even pretend to be a good writer in trying to explain this movie after having only an hour's sleep for almost a week now. I'm almost brain dead, but I've realized that there's so much to know about certain emotions that we, asians, have encountered from different races of oppressors...might it be foreign, or that of our own kind. I felt betrayed, so humiliated that while others, whose generation has long surpassed even our own timeline, has fought for freedom, for what is right, and for the betterment of the community.
It's just one of those times where I'm actually confused at how to make our own race stay in this country to painstakingly uplift whatever values it has left while our own people backstab us, but it's just that there's so much left to discover, to know about, and to learn about our own past to even begin planning so much for the future.
I just think that we should know so much about ourselves and our roots even before we try to step out of our cocoon.
Anyway, Gada Meilin is part of the Chinese Film Festival 2005, presented by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCAA), organized in cooperation with the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television of China, and the Shangri-La Plaza. This festival is one of many activites celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of the Philippines and the People's Republic of China. This partnership has been a powerful example of beneficial cultural exchange, a crucial tool in the actualization of global harmony and collaboration.
So check them out because admission is free, and it will be running from June 10 - June 13...here is the schedule:
Gada Meilin
June 10 - 7:15pm
June 12 - 2pm
June 13 - 9:30pm
Nuan
June 10 - 9:30pm
June 12 - 4:30pm
June 13 - 7pm
Judge Mama
June 11 - 4:30pm
June 12 - 9:30pm
Story of Lotus
June 11 - 7pm
June 13 - 2pm
Live in Peace
June 11 - 9:30pm
June 13 - 4:30pm
Splendid Season
June 11 - 2pm
June 12 - 7pm
Live a splendid extended weekend. Ma pinoy mohican jp would have enjoyed watching these spectacular movies though =(
