Sa Loob at Labas
ABSTRACT
Dy, D.M.B. (2015). Sa Loob at Labas, Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis, University of
the Philippines, College of Mass Communication.
Sa Loob at Labas is a film that tells the story of Ari, an adolescent girl, trapped
within the walls of her own house. Living with her irritable and controlling single mother
and her maid, Ate Nads, she tries to seek what the outside world is like through her daily
tutor, Patricia. Slowly trying to understand the situation she’s in, escaping seemed to be
the solution; but Ari realizes that it isn’t exactly what she wanted.
The film tackles the struggles of a single mother and at the same time a young girl
trying starting to think for herself. It deals with the struggles of women living in a
patriarchal society. The framework of feminism, along with semiotics, was used, because
in this supposed patriarchal society, women try to stand up for themselves.