{"title":"Cinema pandemia: Reflections on the underrated Netflix series La Révolution vis-à-vis current Philippine & international realities","authors":"David Michael San Juan","doi":"10.52518/2022-11dmsnjn","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This piece tackles the underrated Netflix series La Révolution vis-à-vis current realities of the pandemic in a national and international context. Using data and statistics on the pandemic era in the Philippines and around the world, in combination with a social realist contextualization of the said history-inspired yet fantasy-imbued film series, this short article weaves numbers and stories into contemporary reflections on how the reel helps explain, inform, and even shape the real, through humankind’s dual role as not-so-passive viewers of the reel and as dynamic actors or subjects who are capable shapers of the real.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Plaridel","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-11dmsnjn","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This piece tackles the underrated Netflix series La Révolution vis-à-vis current realities of the pandemic in a national and international context. Using data and statistics on the pandemic era in the Philippines and around the world, in combination with a social realist contextualization of the said history-inspired yet fantasy-imbued film series, this short article weaves numbers and stories into contemporary reflections on how the reel helps explain, inform, and even shape the real, through humankind’s dual role as not-so-passive viewers of the reel and as dynamic actors or subjects who are capable shapers of the real.
这篇文章处理了被低估的Netflix系列La r revolution vis-à-vis在国家和国际背景下流行病的当前现实。使用数据和统计数据在菲律宾流行的时代,在世界各地,结合社会现实主义的语境化说history-inspired fantasy-imbued系列电影,这篇简短的文章将数字和故事编织成当代反思如何卷有助于解释,告知,甚至真正的形状,通过人类的双重角色一样卷not-so-passive观众和动态演员或受试者能够塑造者的真实。