Movie Review Based on given Guide Questions.

In the movie, I Want to Have a Bicycle; the modernity seen there was the introduction of foreign lifestyle, expensive bicycle and other commodities as well as the emergence of tourists and media. No one can ever prevent the change a scooter can cause to the highlands. For as long as it has a value of its own, it effects some emotions to those who may witness its grandeur most especially if it has been invented flawlessly and from the movie, with a great brake. It would serve as a kind of help to the highlanders in terms of transportation or for playing. Modernization allows those privileged societies to show to other remote areas the greatness of its mechanisms.

The film has some exceptional features like the amalgamation of modernity’s influence to the people of Ifugao and the native inhabitants’ practice of old traditions or believing in superstitious beliefs. There came time wherein the people discovered that what they believed in before were in fact false actions or statements. From here, having doubt on things was evident but asking for valid answers must originate from determined people and valid responses from reliable and educated individuals.

On one hand, the film about Agpansula demonstrated a kind of conflict between two different ethnic relations, that of the Mangyan man and the lowlander woman. It was crystal clear that their lifestyle, practices and status quo were somewhat poles apart. The ways in which marriage and customs were conducted by the two civilizations differ from each other. The Mangyan way was sickening and gross because of the Agpansula ritual (a pig slaughtering; reading on its internal organs) from which the tribe predicts supposed occurrences of the couple’s wedded life.

The story was more on a realistic view. The actuality provided by the movie overshadowed the anticipated romance between the man and woman. The new concept of family or person in this film, however, was the fact that two loving birds even if with varying lifestyles and heritage can be united. Racism is not in the vocabulary of lovers.