Collaborative task

This is a reflection for a video we were required to view. We were told to watch two

videos, the first video was a documentary by Kara David called "huling prinsesa," which

translates as "final princess." Since our class had covered the literary style of a fiction narrative,

we initially believed that The Huling Princess was a novel about a princess fable. However,

when we first started watching it, we were appalled by what the documentary was about, to put it

mildly. We noticed how awful the journey is when we first saw Kara David traveling to Mount

Capiz. There was a portion where the locals referred to the princesses as binukots instead of

princesses, which bothered me because we still had the impression that they were real princesses.

However, everything changed when they reached the community of Rizal Sur, which was more

like a small village than a massive castle. Small homes that were separated by a great distance

that no one would think that a princess would be living there. Kara David was also thinking the

same but then she meets on of the last remaning binukot, a 73-year-old lola. She was only 5

years old when her parent told her to be a binukot as young girls are usually choosen to be a

binukot so that they will develop as a fine woman. Binukot usually is the pretty daughter of a

chief tribe. The binukots were not allowed to go outside as the word binukot means to keep.

They were not allowed to go outside and would be assist if they were meant to go outside.

Halfway through the video, as we learned more about the binukots, I began to question my

assumption that she was just a regular princess who was handled gently in order to injure her.

However, it was more than that; for them, it was never a fairytale. The cruel reason why they do

it to young girls is so that their beautiful daughter might marry them off. They gave the

impression that they cared, made you feel like a princess, prohibited you from leaving the house,

but eventually married you off to a man without your knowledge. Living with the suffering
because many still think of Binukot as having miraculous abilities We were shocked when they

claimed that during World War II, the binukots were unable to flee or hide from the Japanese,

which led to a decrease in the number of binukots as a consequence of the parents' fear for their

own daughter, but Lola isiang remained as one, though her dedication to the tradition is

admirable, but in all honesty, no one in today's society would be a binukot since they would have

no freedom at all.

Speaking of lack of freedom, we noted some similarities between huling prinsesa and

Spanish colonial. When they were able to go outside, for an event or a marriage, they would

dance their traditional dances and would sing their ancient songs which are epics. The binukots

recite epics that comprise histories of their tribe. Epic, according to our lesson, is a heroic tale

repeated or sung, like the binukots do.