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Continue reading →: Ned’s Project: Gender Advocacy 101By Heinrich Domingo Watching films with new and unpopular themes can sometimes be intimidating. Aside from unfamiliar rhetoric, the filmmakers would often preach us on what they think we must believe in. Ned’s Project proved that films can introduce a new world without the fear of coming too overwhelming. It…
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Continue reading →: 1st Sem: Comedy in family drama
By Heinrich Domingo We tend not to like things that remind us of our embarrassing pasts. Either we cringe remembering them or we simply outgrow them. 1st Sem takes no shame in telling an unpretentious story from a too simple conflict. It looks back into one of the awkward phases…
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Continue reading →: Buhay Habangbuhay (Life Afterlife): Life through death
By Heinrich Domingo While Philippine films have this unfounded addiction on weddings (see Straight to the Heart), we limit the discussion of death on horror stories. Buhay Habangbuhay offered an alternative depiction of death and the afterlife and suggested that they are capable of broadening the discussion of love, relationship,…
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Continue reading →: Straight to the Heart: Giving love a bad name
By Heinrich Domingo With a badly written screenplay, Straight to the Heart was unable to hold together the many sub-stories it wishes to narrate. From HIV awareness campaign to gender fluidity argument, the film superficially discusses its advocacies and then immediately proceeds in tackling another topic. In the end, it…
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