If the film MAID IN MALACAÑANG were an art form, it would definitely be expressionist in nature, where the concept of reality is slanted so the artist can convey their own interpretations. The reality in director Darryl Yap’s mind is not without artificiality, nor is it faithful to mirroring the truth, and the filmmaker would rather capture these fragmented accounts of events and transform them into palatable moments of marketable melodrama.