Philippine Cinema: a Review on ‘No Other Woman’

Philippine Cinema A Review on No separate Woman written by Jessica Zafra By every(prenominal) accounts the Viva-Star Cinema productionNo Other Womanis a smash hit, and in show business at that place is no arguing with pots of money. We may assume from the box-office grosses that this is the sort of movie the Filipino audience wants to see. What exactly is this movie saying? 1. Character is unnecessary any you need ar stereotypes. In the traditional defence of marriage melodrama these are 1. 1. The free Husband 1. 1. 1.The Handsome Husband is so hot that he is literally bursting out of his clothes, which are at least one size of it too small for him so as to emphasize his well-developed pectoral muscles. 1. 1. 2. The Handsome Husband flirts outrageously with the customers who come to his store, but thats all set because it sells furniture. 1. 1. 3. The Handsome Husband is devoted to his wife until a intrigue slut throws herself at him. He cannot be blamed for succumbing be cause hands are men and their brains are in their pants. 1. 1. 4.The Handsome Husband is only slightly little animated than the furniture he designs and sells. 1. 2. The Beautiful wife 1. 2. 1. The Beautiful married woman could be the sexiest woman in the archipelago, but now that shes get hitched with she must suppress her sexuality in shapeless clothes and ghastly make-up. 1. 2. 2. The Beautiful Wife cooks nutritious meals for her married man and personally supervises his laundry. 1. 2. 3. The Beautiful Wife consoles her husband by having sex with him every time her domineering laminitis makes disparaging remarks about his professional prospects. . 2. 4. The Beautiful Wife, being inexperienced in the ways of the world, confuses seduction with arson. 1. 2. 5. The Beautiful Wife is a good girl, then she does not wear mascara and she has long, straight black hair that she wears in a ponytail. 1. 3. The adult bawd 1. 3. 1. The Sexy fancy woman has lived in New York, ergo she is liberated, which in the Philippines is a synonym for promiscuous. 1. 3. 2. The Sexy Mistress speaks a strange, over-enunciated English and begins each sentence with an arch laugh (Ah-ha-ha . And she smokes. 1. 3. 3. The Sexy Mistress is a bad girl, hence she wears copious amounts of mascara and has long, dramatically wavelike hair. 1. 3. 4. The Sexy Mistress does not cook. 1. 3. 5. The Sexy Mistress likes to taste disallow pleasures, so she eats seafood she is allergic to, which is just daft. 2. All fathers are entail and horrible, hence responsible for your issues. 2. 1. The Handsome Husbands father is a philanderer, embezzler and failed businessman, so The Handsome Husband will also be all of the above. 2. 2.The Beautiful Wifes father is a gimcrack philanderer, so The Beautiful Wife will marry same. 2. 3. The Sexy Mistresss father is domineering and arrogant, so The Sexy Mistress refuses to chip in to a relationship until she meets someone who really cant excite because h es already married. 3. Women should humiliate themselves for their men. 3. 1. They should engage in national bitch fights in which handbags become metaphors for the man they are fighting over. 3. 2. They should entreat each other to dinner and threaten to kill the bitch who is boinking their husband. . 3. If thinly veiled verbal aggression does not suffice, they should have a controversy in a public place. 3. 4. It does not occur to them that the person machine-accessible to the penis is also responsible for their troubles. 4. Nothing solves a domestic difficulty like a near-fatal accident. 4. 1. The cheating husband endures excruciating physical taunt as a substitute for castration. 4. 2. The suffering wife has to forgive her husband because the thought of living without him is more than she could bear, and shes forgotten that she left him. 4. 3.The scheming mistress is jolted back to her senses. 5. The moral of the story is, Thou shalt not commit adultery. 5. 1. The cheatin g husband crawls back to his wife, who doesnt seem especially enamored of him but is compelled to defend their marriage. 5. 2. The wife always wins because thither is no alternative. Its not as if she could ditch her unfaithful spousethere is no divorce in the Philippines (Well, technically). 5. 3. The mistress goes back to New York, where all the bad girls are supposed to go, which makes you wonder who won exactly