I.

Introduction/Movie background

a) Basic Information

Ded na si lolo is directed by Soxy Topacio and produce by Antonio P. Tuviera

and released by the date of 9 May 2009 in the Philippines.
The movie is about a funeral/death of their grandfather, where every superstitious
beliefs of filipino are being demonetized by the movie. But getting in the way of their
genuine grief are a bunch of superstitions about the dead, and the family's inability to
deal with their issues in a civilized way. The movie shows that all of the son and
daughter of Juanito in the movie that they all have a fainting disease where they also
drama all the way and faint at the end.
In the end of the movie Juanito is being walk into his cemetery and sudden all of
his son and daughter just past away consecutively by one by one starting from Junee
to Dolores

b) Character

 Syano is the eldest in their family and he is the only one who knows that they are
just second family.

 Dolores is the second eldest in their family and she is indignant to the third eldest
in their family.

 Mameng is the third eldest and she is the favorite child of his father.

 Charing is the second youngest and she is well known in their society through
shouting every morning.

 Junee is the youngest and he is hermaphrodite person.

 Juanito is the one who past away and been putted into the casket and been
delivered to cemetery

 Pilar is the first wife of Juanito

 Bobet is the son of charing and he has anomia and cotton in case of someone that
lose him/her consciousness. He is the youngest child in their family who has been
carried over the casket to and fro in order to prevent his grandpa from exercising
his visitation rights on little kids.

 Mr. Cruz is the mastermind of gambling, who just wanted to longer the funeral
just earn so much money.

 Socorro is the eldest in the first family of Juanito.

II. Plot

A large of family with lot of problems and issues gather in the mourn of their
father. Some of the adult has a issue to teach other their has a problems since birth. In
the end they express or share their problem/issue to each other. And they met the first
family of their father but they accept it. They realized that they are not the first family.
They’re family has a past out thingy and drama in they’re life since birth, if there is
someone in their family that is going to past out they’re going to put and let them
smell the “amonia” thingy so that they’ll going to wake up again. However they’re
family also has a fainting problems that all of the son of Juanito has been fainted
when they knew that Juanito has already died and past away.
They believe in many superstitious beliefs some of these superstitious are:
wearing red colored attire when you are going to a funeral is prohibited; rosary should
be cut so that a family member will not be the next one to past away; it is bad luck to
have a bath at the house where dead lies in; it is forbidden to accompany guest leaving
the funeral; putting a chick/chicken on top of the casket means that the dead was
murdered.

III. Analysis
a) Formal Technique
b) Thematic Content

c) Implication

IV. Conclusion/Evaluation

In the closing of the movie it show that all incident or all the problems and issues
has a reason why is happening or why we experienced that thing. If early we need to
ask forgiveness cause they said “the repentance is at in the end”. When Juanito is
being buried in the ground then suddenly happened to the last part that all of his son
and daughter fainted in the front of his coffin crying so hard that causes them fainting.
During the interment, Bobet is carried over the casket to and fro in order to
prevent his grandpa from exercising his visitation rights on little kids. Bobet’s protest
that he is not a little kid falls on deaf ears. As he watches the burial, he tells his
grandpa that it’s alright if he visits him because he is not afraid of him. He bids his
“lolo” goodbye.

V. Recommendation

I surely recommend the video because, this movie shows how filipino
superstitious beliefs in the death of someone here on the Philippines. They’re also
showing on how our fellow citizen obeying every superstitious beliefs that they’re
believing into.
This shows how the manner of every filipino when someone who is dead and
surely need to obey the rules or they called “pamahiin” or superstitious beliefs of the
filipinoes. Not only the filipino need to do these but also other religions, country and
many more this surely this can help us.