RIZAL SA DAPITAN

COMMENTARY
Jadon Albert I. Mejia
BSAIS-2C

I am very much concern or they focus on the main actors/ actress who are responsible to that story most
importantly it is a very momentous and historic movie. I’ll start with the main Character which is Albert
Martinez as Rizal, he is handsome, strong and talented and intelligent. The story starts with Rizal lived in
exile in far-away Dapitan, a remote town in Mindanao which was under the missionary   jurisdiction of the
Jesuits, from 1892 to 1896. He practiced medicine, pursued scientific studies, continued his artistic and
literary works, widened his knowledge of languages, established a school for boys, promoted community
development projects, invented a wooden machine for making bricks, and engaged in farming and
commerce. He practiced medicine, pursued scientific studies, continued his artistic and literary works,
widened his knowledge of languages, established a school for boys, promoted community development
projects, invented a wooden machine for making bricks, and engaged in farming and commerce.

During the early days Rizal was living peacefully and happily at his house in Talisay when suddenly jolted
by a strange incident involving a spy of the friars.  The  spy  with the  assumed name of  "Pablo Mercado"
and posing as a relative, secretly  visited  Rizal at his  house  on  the  night. He introduced himself as a
friend and a relative, showing a photo of Rizal and a pair of buttons with the initials "P.M."(Pablo
Mercado) as evidence of his kinship with the Rizal family. He operated on his mother’s right eye. The
operation was successful but Dona Teodora ignored her son’s instructions by removing the bandages
from her eyes, t hereby causing the wound to be infected.

The death of his mother Leonora Rivera on August 28, 1893 left a poignant void in his heart.   He needed
somebody to cheer him up in his lonely exile. In God's own time, Josephine Bracken  an Irish girl of sweet
eighteen, “slender, a chestnut blond, with blue eyes, dressed with elegant simplicity, in 1896, the
Katipunan, a nationalist secret society, launched a revolt against Spain. Although he had no connections
with that organization or any part in the insurrection, Rizal was arrested and tried for sedition by the
military.

These factual segments that have emphasized to me the reality of Rizal’s exile made my perspective
cover the entire circle. Although Rizal was separated from the local world, people outside like the
Katipuneros would still ask for his advice because his writings were said to be the heart and mind of the
Revolution. Taking the perspective, Rizal never got disconnected from the issues of the nation even if he
was in exile. His passion to let the country seek for its independence and reacquire peace was never
been behind any bars because Dr. Rizal has proven the supremacy of his works that are righteously to be
valued.

Even though Rizal helped so many people mainly on his hometown by giving free medicines and a lot of
school he built and other establishments he started due to his high profile status he got caught up to the
revolt of katipunan where he was sentenced with death when Rizal wanted to live in his hometown which
is Dapitan for the rest of his life with Josephine but what is important up to today’s generation is that
young people look up to Rizal as a hero and a Filipino who fought and did so many things for the sake of
our country he still human and did a lot of mistakes like his works causing death to many male Filipino but
he is indeed a great hero who fought against Spaniards when most of the community did not have a guts
to do so.