Yesterday, I watched Forzen II and a child with her mother a few seats away from me started crying when Elsa entered the forest and Anna was left behind. She could not be pacified so I told her, "Drawing lang yan." Then she quieted down.
When the scenes were getting conflicted again, she began crying more heavily. I told her, "Comics lang yan." She stopped a bit.
Then when the scenes got more and more full of big stony giants waking up and walking towards Anna, she cried the more heavily. And I told her, "Anna is strong. Matapang si Anna. Dapat matapang ka rin." No, her tears flowed down again.
When the film ended, she was still sobbing and crying. "O, tapos na. Lahat ay masaya, ikaw lang ang hindi. Bakit ka ganyan?"
Folks, I think some children can be babied too much by their parents. Then the immersion in gadget has made them too tame to face even a simple movie as Frozen II which has a rather dark treatment I might say for a child and an adult like me. I really did not like so much the fearsome places that the sisters and their companions -- Kristoff, Olaf and Sven had gone into. Frozen II lacks the childlike qualities of Frozen I wherein even the songs were singabl and memorable. Remember "Let it Go?"
Anyway, I would like to show some of the pictures of our puppetshow, Mga Aninong Gumagalaw ni Ophelia, adapted from the book, Ophelia's Shadow Theatre by Michael Ende which we had shown to five barangays here in Quezon City: Payatas, Tatalon, Sacred Heart, Commonwealth and Project 6.
Here they are courtesy of Debbie Viereck of Goethe Institut: (November 2018)
This is our audienc at Barangay Commonwealth
Our puppetshow had shadow puppets, cartons that were cut-outs, tacked flat on white screen with light projected at the back
These are the puppeteers behind the screen. They are seated on the floor while one is reading the script to announce to them the next shadow puppets that will be put up on the screen.
Debbie, of Goethe Institut is explaining the map of Germany, while the teachers and yours truly are watching. She is saying that it is located higher than where we are in the Philippines, and so the climate is very cold up there.
These are the shadow puppets which wanted to be kept in the theatre bag of Ophelia.
The children and adults who watched from Barangay commonwealth were very happy to have been shown the puppetshow. The adults had not experienced it in their childhood while the younger set saw them only on some TV shows. They asked when we will hold another one and we could not answer a definite date. As a non-government organization, Kamalapina, our theatre group is planning another show this coming year courtesy of another foreign organization.
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