This film is not just gay, it is queer!
I had the honor of watching this film and listening to discussions between ricky lee and nick deocampo in cine adarna. Yhey help put the film into its context: this was at its most subversive at its release—the bodily exploration and exploitation of questioning, (possibly) queer youth, forced upon by needs of survival. Despite censorship, this is on full display in slow, unmoving shots, intimate and invasive. The amount of extended sensual scenes felt almost unnerving but somehow not perverted. They were at work, they were in trouble, they were learning, they were practicing, they were hurt, they were hiding, they were never just sexy for the sake of sexy. There was always a needy look, for clarity, for freedom, for safety, who knows, but there was always something out of reach of the characters bearing their all to try and grab it.
I have been missing this perspective in my movie-watching, slowness is important. There is merit in long cuts of what some would say is nothing. On the third performance of the same soapy number, with almost the same composition each time, there is still something being said. The pairings were always different. Pol has played both roles being that this is not his world, he is merely still finding his place, that place sometimes being the absence of others. Dennis comes back, not just in the performance but in the industry, he is cursed to remain in this loop, he's been here all the time. Noel passing his role over to Pol, as so his sister, as so his story, as so a connection that was not meant to be explored.
Jaclyn Jose, I was not fully familiar with your game. The two times I teared up was because of Bambi. What a performance!
This movie feels like a time machine. Everything seems so palpable, real, and realized but hopeful which strangely does not feel fantastical at all despite the fact that killing a kingpin wouldn't let you last more than 24 hours in real life especially if you stay in the area.
This movie felt so good to watch. The characters look like real people. The environment is still a character. There was boy kissing (semi-romantic). I couldn't ask for more.
This film is not just gay, it is queer!
I had the honor of watching this film and listening to discussions between ricky lee and nick deocampo in cine adarna. Yhey help put the film into its context: this was at its most subversive at its release—the bodily exploration and exploitation of questioning, (possibly) queer youth, forced upon by needs of survival. Despite censorship, this is on full display in slow, unmoving shots, intimate and invasive. The amount of extended sensual scenes felt almost unnerving but somehow not perverted. They were at work, they were in trouble, they were learning, they were practicing, they were hurt, they were hiding, they were never just sexy for the sake of sexy. There was always a needy look, for clarity, for freedom, for safety, who knows, but there was always something out of reach of the characters bearing their all to try and grab it.
I have been missing this perspective in my movie-watching, slowness is important. There is merit in long cuts of what some would say is nothing. On the third performance of the same soapy number, with almost the same composition each time, there is still something being said. The pairings were always different. Pol has played both roles being that this is not his world, he is merely still finding his place, that place sometimes being the absence of others. Dennis comes back, not just in the performance but in the industry, he is cursed to remain in this loop, he's been here all the time. Noel passing his role over to Pol, as so his sister, as so his story, as so a connection that was not meant to be explored.
Jaclyn Jose, I was not fully familiar with your game. The two times I teared up was because of Bambi. What a performance!
This movie feels like a time machine. Everything seems so palpable, real, and realized but hopeful which strangely does not feel fantastical at all despite the fact that killing a kingpin wouldn't let you last more than 24 hours in real life especially if you stay in the area.
This movie felt so good to watch. The characters look like real people. The environment is still a character. There was boy kissing (semi-romantic). I couldn't ask for more.
