Name: Bermejo, Trisha D.

Year & Section: BSP- 1

Title: EDSA (2016)

Summary

Nagsimula ang pelikulang EDSA sa mga karakter na dalawang guro mula sa probinsya upang
dumalo sa isang Seminar dito sa Maynila. Sumunod naman ang isang Driver at ang kanyang
Boss na lumabag sa batas trapiko, sila’y nahuli ng Traffic Enfocer pero ang boss pa nya nag
galit. Sumunod na tagpo ay ang dalawang lalaki na nakasakay sa motor, yun pala may mga balak
na masama sila pala’y mga snacther. Inabangan nila ang boss ng Driver kinuha nag bag nito ang
kumaripas ng takbo papunta sa isa pa nitong kasama na naghihintay lamang sa kanya.

Sa isang pang pasaherong Bus naman ay may babaeng umakyat, nagbibigay ng mga Bible Verse
at mga sobre. May kapwa naman syang pasahero na piso lang ang ibinigay sa kanya, sya ay
isang nurse na papunta sa kanyang trabaho. Sinabihan sya ng babae na kuripot, doon nagkaroon
sila ng argument tungkol sa pag gamit pa ng relihiyon upang makakuha ng pera. Bigla na lamang
may nahagip ang Bus na lulan nila, nagsibaba ang Nurse at ang mga kapwa pasahero maski ang
babae na nagbibigay sobre ay nahimatay sa kaba. Tinulungan sila ng Nurse at napadaan ang
hinuling Driver at inihatid sila sa Ospital. Sya pala ang snatcher na muntik na ring mamatay
dahil nahuli sila ng Pulis na nagroronda sa lugar. Namatay sa engkwentro ang kanyang kasama,
dahil sa tama ng baril sa katawan.

May nakilalang batang lalaki ang Boss ng Driver sa isang stasyon ng tren. Ito ang nagpahiram ng
telepono at binayaran ito ng Boss. Dahil hindi sanay na magcommute ang Boss sinamahan sya
ng batang lalaki dahil kailangan nyang makarating sa Makati dahil sa isang urgent meeting.
Nang biglang tumirik ang tren bunga nito sila’y napababa ng di oras. Doon nagsimula kung
paano nya nakita ang buhay ng isang pangkaraniwang bata sa lansangan. Lingid sa kaalaman nya
na ang batang iyon ang anak ng kanyang Driver.

Nang maging maayos ang pakiramdam ng snatcher ay tinulungan sya ng Nurse na ibalik isa-isa
ang mga bagay na ninakaw nila sa mga tao na nabiktima nila. Ang huling taong susulian ng
ninakaw nila ay ang Boss ng Driver. At doon nagkita ang lahat ng karakter. Sa huli sila’y
nagtagpo sa iisang lugar. Kung bakit nagsanga-sanga ang landas ng bawat isa. Kung bakit sila
nasa iisang sitwasyon lang.
Reaksyon sa Pelikula

Ipinapakita sa Pelikula kung ano ang mga problema ng lipunan natin. Traffic, maliit na sa sahod
ng mga Guro. Problema sa transporatsyon, kulang sa trabaho kaya ang iba ay gumagawa ng
labag sa batas. Mga taong ginagamit ang relihiyon upang makakuha ng pera. Mga taong ganid
sap era. Mga taong sobra kung gamitin ang kapangyarihan sa lipunan.

Sa huli nagkaroon ng sagot kung bakit may lumalabas na talangka sa stasyon ng tren, bakit?
Dahil marami satin ay utak talangka sabi nga sa kanta hahatakin tayo pababa. Ito ang problema
sa Pilipinas, imbis na magtulungan ang bawat isa sa atin upang umangat ang bansa naghahatakan
tayo pababa. Kaya’t walang pagbabago, kasing bagal ng traffic sa Edsa ang pag usad ng bansang
Pilipinas.

Ano nga bang kailangan natin? May magagawa nga ba tayo?

 THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION

Japan had already been at war in Manchuria (1931) and China (1937) long before the Second
World War. Started in Europe when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. By 1941,
Japanese military expansion in the Asia-Pacific region had made confrontation and war with the
United States increasingly certain. Japanese are looking for territories to accommodate not only
their excess population but also their manufactured goods, started the war in the Pacific.

Japanese naval bombers attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December 8, 1941. As a

consequence of this war , the Philippines was occupied Japanese . For three years the Filipinos
suffered the rigors of war. Civil liberties were suppressed by the enemy, the economy wad
geared to the demands of the Japanese war efforts, education was re-vamped to re-orient Filipino
thinking along Japanese lines, political life was limited to the Japanese-sponsored Republic.

ROOSEVELT AND THE WAR

The treacherous bombing of Pearl Harbor drove the American people to frenzied anger. The
American naval and military losses at Pearl Harbor amounted to 2,897 men. The tragedy stuck
deep into the hearts of the Americans. It was Monday, December 8,1941, Washington time. At
12:25 PM, both houses of Congress met in joint session. Five minutes later, President Roosevelt,
his face grim and deeply lined with worries, delivered his message “ Yesterday” he said
solemnly “December 7,1941, --- a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America
was suddenly and deliberated attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan”. At one
o’clock, the United States Senate declared war without a dessenting vote. Ten minutes later, the
House of Representatives declared war with only one dessenting vote.

“ We are now in the midst of war, not for conquest, not for vengeance, but for a world in which
this nation, and all that this nation represents, will be safe for our children.” –Roosevelt

Across the Atlantic, on December 8, Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill of England faced
the House of Commons and announced to the world that Great Britain would declare war on
Japan. The European War, which commenced in 1939, now expended to become the Second
World War.

THE ROAD TO LEYTE

After the battle of Philippine Sea, the American naval and Marine forces concentrated their
wrath on Saipan, which was captured on July 9. American territorial losses during the early
phase of the war were now being recovered , and the way to the Philippines was being paved. By
the middle of 1944, the American forces in the position to tighten the noose around Japan’s
neck.
 On September 21 while Manila was listening to the Japanese-controlled Radio Station PIAM,
the American carrier-based planes swooped down upon the city undetected. The strikes showed
that the Japanese air resistance was weak.

Consequently, with the approval of the President Roosevelt, the date for the invasion of Leyte
was set for October 20. The way was now paves for the “ Return of the beloved”

THE LEYTE LANDINGS

The landings in the Philippines were to be carried out by the forces under General Douglas
MacArthur. Such a task meant the convergence of troops transport, supply ships, fire support
ships, escort carriers, mine craft, landing craft, and cargo ships. The American forces, known as
the Central Philippine Attack Force, were divided into the Northern Attack Force and the
Southern Attack Force. All in all, the American Attack force consisted of 650 ships and four
army divisions.

The softening of the enemy positions on the Leyte was carried out by carrier strikes which
lasted October 9 to 20. Central Luzon took a share of the carrier attack on October 18 and 19,
while units of the American Navy scoured the seas in the Visayas to prevent the Japanese Navy
from interfering with operation in Leyte.

On October 11, the long line of American attack force left New Guinea. Target: Leyte .
Minesweepers preceded the main attack force. On October 20, the Leyte beaches were severely
bombarded from the air and from the sea.

With the enemy neutralized by heavy bombings and naval guns, two army crops landed in the
morning of October 20. Beach-heads were established and soon the troops fanned out in several
directions to drive out the enemy. The Americans had returned.