“Being
beautiful is easy, because it is natural”, it’s not the exact words she uttered
but it was Imelda Marcos’s point why she insist to be gorgeous on everybody’s
eyes all the time. Well no doubt she is pretty with good voice, followed by men
and was the most experienced and knowledgeable person in politics for her
children. She was even able to hook in a glimpse of an eye the former President,
Marcos. Imelda was famous of her shoes and her presence during the whole
electoral campaign of her husband. They are the greatest love/ tag team of that
period and were able to persuade the Filipino nation that they deserve to lead
the country.
There’s
so much to say about how they live wealthily in the palace, how they lavishly
held parties and bought tons of shoes and dresses. But the real thing about her
that really annoys me was her way of giving rationale for everything. I just
don’t get her. I can’t understand if she was stupid (probably not), weird, sick,
pretending to be just like that to make her look innocent (I don’t know what I
can do if I happen to see her) or just dumb enough to have too much self
confidence and belief to herself. It was just like what one interviewee said in
the film that when she thought of something, she believes that it was the best
idea in the world. She might even think that she was entitled to have control
of the public purse. She brags that she was the representation of the
Philippines, being beautiful at all times for she was a model for every
Filipino. But she never gets the point that Filipinos never look like that. We
never look so beautiful to make ourselves outrageous enough to make people
laugh.
I never understand her, and probably I won’t
bother more to understand her. Still I thank her existence, because I realized
how fortunate am I to be just a normal person.
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