Filipino Films that Should be Made in the Immediate Future, Part 2 (Film #2: "The Imeldific Drag Show")

David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim have already produced a stage musical about the controversial and polarizing Imelda Marcos. Some Filipinos easily became thrilled as Filipino stage thespians were chosen to play key parts in the New York production and the coming London production. For some, it is "Miss Saigon" all over again. This is another proof that the new generation has perhaps forgotten the sins of the Marcos dictatorship and so the apparent return to glory, and maybe to power, of the Marcos clan is well under way. Whether the new Imelda musical presented the great “Maleficent of Shoes” in a favorable or unfavorable light, I suppose it is up to the viewers. But as “The Guardian” critic Alexis Soloski wrote,

“It becomes more difficult to judge or be critical of the characters – dancing with Imelda (played with almost unparalleled sweetness by Ruthie Ann Miles) makes you more likely to sympathise with her and her husband (Jose Llana), despite knowing better.” (Source: The Guardian, 13 April 2013)