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ABSTRACT

Tayamora, K.M. (2017). Love is a Promise, Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis, University of the Philippines, College of Mass Communication.

Love is a Promise tells the story of Abbie, a young aspiring musician in youtube who secretly wants to be sought by her estranged father, passive-aggressively hinting that he should be able to “see” her now since she is famous already. In the film, we delve into Abbie’s mind and see her thoughts on her rocky love-hate perception of her father, reliving her daydreams while juggling her conflicted emotional response towards her father.

Focused on a successful young woman’s journey of forgiveness in response to her father’s efforts to reconcile with her, the film grounds itself on a post-structuralist framework as told with Lacan’s Psychoanalysis. Love is a Promise features the inherent desire of a child to be noticed, or be given attention and affection by their parents, and how deep that desire stems out in every human being that it manifests even when we are repugnant of them.