CommTheories-For Finals

1. WOMAN OF THE RUINS
Woman of the Ruins is one of the most exciting and worth watching for movies. The setting of the story was kind of an unhappy and hopeless island with people who keep on aligning their lives on old beliefs. A maiden woman named Sabel has an attraction with Pasyon, a widow and lonely man who misses his wife, Maria and also one of the devoted resident of the island. One day, sable saw Pasyon’s wife on a picture placed on the altar of his house. When she went back home to their own house, Sabel asked her mother named Olga, about why does Pasyon’s wife seems so unhappy which can be seen on her lame eyes on the picture. Olga said that it’s because Maria indeed knew that she was cursed and that she was the reason of wars in the island. This scene explains the Attribution Theory wherein Sabel’s mother answered her question by reasoning that Maria is under a curse.
One day, a woman was washed ashore on the island, who has the same features with
Pasyon’s wife. With that, Pasyon took and bring her to his house with this strong belief that the woman is Maria, his long lost wife. But the woman is so confused, and she cannot remember anything about her past with Pasyon and with the community. Because of that, her uncertainty increases about herself being Pasyon’s wife which leads her to ask more information about the past. As the story goes on, Maria learned to accept what everybody in the community believes. Also, she accepted being the wife of Pasyon because of his authority where he says that she must fulfill her owe in terms of marital and sexual issues. These scenes mainly explain Uncertainty Reduction Theory wherein Maria’s information-seeking behavior decreases as she learn the story of the past and as she start to accept everything. Another is the Elaboration Likelihood Model that falls under the category of Authority, wherein appeared when Maria took and accept the pressure given by the people around her, especially by Pasyon. This theory says that because of the pressure given by those persons that are ahead of us, we tend to make decision to just accept what they are telling us to do. Because Pasyon is the head of the house, he used his power to make Maria be under him---to be his wife and to be with him whether she likes it or not through inhuman way.
Katanyag, Melody S.
BACR II-1