To my detractors: Taking me down has not only made me hard like ice but soft as wind and the sadness that endured is the same sadness that made everything less irrelevant. There. I’d like to keep things prosey when I’m mad. I find that it softens the blow and makes me look less angry.
This film then gives us that feeling of being able to look inside people’s lives and see the many aspects of how relationships can break down in a matter of minutes because of a single significant event in our lives.
An exemplary tale of a game of men made sexually palatable by a woman as we follow her ascent and rise over the realities of a patriarchal society, her inner demons, and for the chess-playing demography, the people’s awareness of fate.
Imagine Neo (The Matrix) before taking the red pill, Tyler Durden’s ensuing empathy towards quasi-existentialism in Fight Club, throw in a subtle mix of Renton’s battle with addiction in Trainspotting and Joe Goldberg’s gripping narration in You and you got yourself one of the best TV series that you can get your hands on in …
Forget about the common adequacy Pinoy films are usually associated with. We may suck in action and sci-fi movies but we can definitely make quality films in other genres. Like this one.
Baduy na kung baduy, but this is a movie you should watch.
Well. at least, once.
It just might be a homage to the 1986 movie Children of a Lesser God, but Isa Pa with Feelings is the Pinoy counterpart that doesn’t disappoint but levels up in almost every cinematic angle you can think of. Of course, Carlo Aquino is no Marlee Matleen
An Aga Mulach and Alice Dixon reunion that took two decades in the making but one that may possibly stand the test of time. Just a quick geographical once-over, Nuuk is the capital of Greenland, the world’s largest island east of the Canadian Arctic archipelago. Yes, it has unbelievably cold climates and polar bear-inspired clothing …
First of all, the characters are relatable. You can plug in Korean actors in replacement of the main cast and it would still feel socially relevant and accessible. Heck, you can replace the characters with NFL players and, no, it would seem stupid. Korean actors are okay.
Prepare your world to be thrown off the inner rim’s axis regardless if you’re a fan of the series or not. A good viewing experience is certainly guaranteed. It will happen. Whether your Jabba the Hut ass likes it or not.
2020 is definitely not a people person.
So try to make sense of the senseless. Call it a deadlock. Call it anything you want. Declare an impasse. Do whatever you need to do. Find a million wrongs and turn it into rights.