Rizal sa Dapitan Reflection Paper

Rizal sa Dapitan Reflection Paper

Rizal Sa Dapitan is a great depiction of Rizal’s  life as a desterado in Dapitan. Despite being a prisoner, he enjoyed life because he was able to things he love such as educating children and training boys the art of Arnis. Rizal is a gentleman with the way he presented himself to Josephine Bracken. There is a strange event where a man presented himself as Pablo Mercado and he claims that he is a relative of Rizal. He turned out to be a spy named Florencio Namahan.

The film didn’t present the Rizal’s life 100% accurately because of some changes. The film only showed Rizal’s life in Dapitan. The events during his last days weren’t filmed. A brief text was presented about Rizal’s death at the ending of the film.

 Rizal never gave up his vision and mission for the Philippines until he died. Rizal wasn’t just a propagandist. He is also a humanitarian(evidently because of his voluntary medical work for the poor people) and a sports person. He likes to practice and perform Eskrima, now called Arnis.

Rizal wears descent clothes to be presentable to people especially the European visitors. Rizal has a balanced lifestyle. He didn’t indulge in liquor or wine, but he spares some money for the lottery where he won by chance.  He loves the Philippines but he didn’t forget about his personal life. He fell in love or had a crush on many women but all didn’t end well. But we Filipinos are very thankful for everything that he did so that we’ll be able to enjoy the pleasures of freedom and democracy.