Dekada '70 is the story of a family caught in the middle of the tumultuous decade of the 1970s. It details how a middle-class family struggled with and faced the changes that empowered Filipinos to rise against the Marcos government. This series of events happened aſter the bombing of Plaza Miranda, the suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, the proclamaon of Maral Law and the random arrests of polical prisoners. The oppressive nature of the Marcos regime, which made the people become more radical, and the shaping of the decade were all witnessed by the female protagonist, Amanda Bartolome, a mother of five boys. As Amanda's sons grow, form individual beliefs and lead different lives, Amanda reaffirms her identy to state her stand as a Filipino cizen, mother and as a woman. Dekada '70 introduces the new generaon of Filipino readers to a story of a family from a parcular period in Philippine history. Its appeal lies in the evoluon of its characters that embody the new generaon of Filipinos, as well as being the story about a mother and her family, and the society around them that affects them. It is a tale of how a mother becomes torn between the leer of the law and her responsibilies as a mother. A defining but not subversive Filipino novel, Dekada '70 was one of the two grand prize winners for the 1983 Palanca Awards for the novel.[2] It was adapted into a film by Star Cinema in 2002, starring Christopher de Leon and Vilma Santos. UST like any other form of visual art, films possess the capability to reflect to its audience the different faces of reality and to arouse their deep-seated inhibions to give remedy to the various illnesses that haunt the society. It ignites the spirit of its viewers to fight for their own beliefs and to transport their predictable lives to a new world where dreams and ideologies are formed. Nourishing the beauty of feminism and its capability to jusfy the shunned noon that women are of the same equal level with men is Chito Roño’s Dekada ’70 (2002). Based from the novel of one of the best-selling Filipino authors Lualha Bausta, the movie ignites the flame of liberalism possessed by every Filipino to act against dictatorial rule and to improve the country’s state from a dictatorial administraon to a democrac one. The movie revolves around the story of the Bartolome family, a household that was united and peaceful, but when the country was placed under the state of Maral Law, their es were affected and became fragmented and chaoc. It also showed the struggles of Amanda (Vilma Santos), the family’s matriarch, to keep her family intact in the midst of the country’s authoritarian rule. Despite the issues and problems concerning her family, she remained posive and hopeful that in the future, peace and unity will again reign in her family. As an understanding mother to her five sons namely Jules (Piolo Pascual), Gani (Carlos Agassi), Eman (Marvin Agusn), Jason (Danilo Barrios), and Bingo (John Wayne Sace), Amanda raised her children properly and was able to witness how they grew up and became acve members of the society. However, conflicts started to rise when her children became socially acve in opposing the Marcos administraon. Jules became an acvist; Gani enlisted himself to the United States navy; Eman worked as a polical writer; Jason became a vicm of injusce; and Bingo became exposed to the rigors of dictatorship. Because of these incidents, Amanda started to realize the destrucve effects of injusce not just to the society in general, but to every family as well. In a general sense, the movie depicted the story of terrified Filipinos who were forced to subject themselves to the dictatorial rule of the late president Ferdinand Marcos.