I have to admit local Pinoy showbiz has somewhat bored me lately. When it should be flying high because it has apparently entered the dawning of a new Golden Age, it has turned somewhat icky instead. When it reached its Golden Age in the 1970's to 80's, it allowed itself to be priced out of its mass market with the externally-machinated ruse of introduction of multiplexes (Bollywood maintained its status as the biggest film industry in the world by maintaining its low popular prices while the second biggest in the world at that time, the Filipino film industry,
priced out the masses and nosedived into gloom, contented like an innocent fool with the fostered fake news of competition & piracy). It has lately started being the top Asian telenovela draw in many parts of the world but the sad Pinoy story rears its head again. Soft power is power, & Pinoy showbiz soft power was never allowed to blossom fully. Why? There will always be Pinoys, who, for varying wicked reasons, will spoil the show for somebody else's soft power. Inferiority complex, mendicancy & cluelessness, it was never a pretty sight.
But the tides continue to roll. Pinoys are a cultural power, no matter how low their self-regard. At least.
