A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.
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- TriviaInitially, Imelda Marcos opposed the public showing of this film in the Philippines and even got a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) from a local court stopping its public showing. Eventually, she allowed the showing of the film on the condition the director dropped the word "Documentary" from the film.
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Written by Irving Berlin
Irivng Berlin Music Company
Performed by Imelda Marcos
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Comments from famed Imelda biographer, Carmen Pedrosa
It was around May in 2001 when filmmaker Ramona Diaz contacted me for an interview which I rejected when I realized it was being produced in cooperation with Imelda, the Public Broadcasting of America (equivalent to the UK's BBC) and Soros Foundation. The story of that rejection is documented in my column of May 31, 2001.
Over lunch at Acceed where she stayed, I found out she was making a film out of the story of the Untold Story of Imelda Marcos while recasting it in interviews and a spin as if the story were being told for the first time. Of course, she would not say it as plainly as that because it would be admitting that she was doing a project using the story covered by an intellectual copyright.
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During a recent interview with Pia Arcangel of GMA7, she told me that when she asked Ramona Diaz, filmmaker of Imelda, if she used any book in making the film, her reply was no, she did not. And that includes my book, the Untold Story of Imelda Marcos, which became a cause célèbre in the 70s just before the declaration of martial law. That Ramona Diaz can say such a barefaced lie in front of TV cameras only reinforces the belief that she is being less than truthful when she denies that her film documentary was done to rehabilitate the image not just of Imelda, but the Marcoses as a dynasty.
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That is what is wrong with the Ramona Diaz's documentary on Imelda. It attempts to be neutral and objective about Imelda and consequently becomes a disservice to Filipinos. No matter if it is technically a well-don film. Why should we be neutral about Imelda when she was a partner in the unlamented Marcos regime? She was at the center of it and at the time of Ninoy's assassination the crowned successor of her ailing husband. Nor is objectivity (interpreted as without taking sides) desirable or even possible to be intellectually honest. Objectivity is not an option for such grim task. I am not surprised that the producer should be less than forthright about the Marcos family's cooperation in the making of the film and the purpose of that film. She wanted to have her cake and eat it too - have their cooperation at the same time that she hopes viewers will see Imelda and the Marcos regime in a different light.
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There are rumors that the producer of this documentary was in cahoots with Imelda, and that the court's temporary restraining order was scripted to draw attention to the film.
Those who saw the documentary say that Imelda showed absolutely no remorse, no guilt at what she and the Marcoses did. From them, not one word of apology for the havoc they inflicted on us. Not just the Marcoses, but all those panderers who helped in the plunder of this nation, not one whisper of mea culpa from them.
Over lunch at Acceed where she stayed, I found out she was making a film out of the story of the Untold Story of Imelda Marcos while recasting it in interviews and a spin as if the story were being told for the first time. Of course, she would not say it as plainly as that because it would be admitting that she was doing a project using the story covered by an intellectual copyright.
*****
During a recent interview with Pia Arcangel of GMA7, she told me that when she asked Ramona Diaz, filmmaker of Imelda, if she used any book in making the film, her reply was no, she did not. And that includes my book, the Untold Story of Imelda Marcos, which became a cause célèbre in the 70s just before the declaration of martial law. That Ramona Diaz can say such a barefaced lie in front of TV cameras only reinforces the belief that she is being less than truthful when she denies that her film documentary was done to rehabilitate the image not just of Imelda, but the Marcoses as a dynasty.
******
That is what is wrong with the Ramona Diaz's documentary on Imelda. It attempts to be neutral and objective about Imelda and consequently becomes a disservice to Filipinos. No matter if it is technically a well-don film. Why should we be neutral about Imelda when she was a partner in the unlamented Marcos regime? She was at the center of it and at the time of Ninoy's assassination the crowned successor of her ailing husband. Nor is objectivity (interpreted as without taking sides) desirable or even possible to be intellectually honest. Objectivity is not an option for such grim task. I am not surprised that the producer should be less than forthright about the Marcos family's cooperation in the making of the film and the purpose of that film. She wanted to have her cake and eat it too - have their cooperation at the same time that she hopes viewers will see Imelda and the Marcos regime in a different light.
*******
There are rumors that the producer of this documentary was in cahoots with Imelda, and that the court's temporary restraining order was scripted to draw attention to the film.
Those who saw the documentary say that Imelda showed absolutely no remorse, no guilt at what she and the Marcoses did. From them, not one word of apology for the havoc they inflicted on us. Not just the Marcoses, but all those panderers who helped in the plunder of this nation, not one whisper of mea culpa from them.
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- Jun 4, 2020
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