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If or when U. S.-born Michelle Malkin flies to the Philippines she will be referred to by locals as a balikbayan which is Tagalog for “one who returns home.”
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If or when U.S.-born Michelle Malkin flies to the Philippines she will be referred to by locals as a balikbayan which is Tagalog for “one who returns home.”
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Her film is itself a "balikbayan" box we have to unpack.
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While we observe Marisol packing her "balikbayan" box, ensuring the safety of its delivery, we also keep in mind what is not shown - the absent montage of her sister's body being deposited as in a cargo container for shipping home, paid for by Marisol's savings.
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This "balikbayan" box that holds gifts, token commodities, etc. functions as the chief synthesizing trope, the allegorical synapse or synergistic node of the film.
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Marisol protests, suggesting that Wena should be put in a "balikbayan" box -
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This "balikbayan" box that holds gifts, token commodities, etc. functions as the chief synthesizing trope, the allegorical synapse or synergistic node of the film.
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While we observe Marisol packing her "balikbayan" box, ensuring the safety of its delivery, we also keep in mind what is not shown - the absent montage of her sister's body being deposited as in a cargo container for shipping home, paid for by Marisol's savings.
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Her film is itself a "balikbayan" box we have to unpack.
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Throughout the film, the "balikbayan" box operates as the central unifying trope: it connects dispersed family members, like the umbilical cord.
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