This is the fifth Pinoy gay indie film that I’ve watched and definitely I liked this movie, most especially it was starred by one of my idols in Philippines Show business Industry, Emilio Garcia. What do you expect, Emilio Garcia is good-looking and one of the finest actors in the country, so, the acting was great!
By the way, the movie was entitled Booking because these are the gays who are looking for call boys and having them as a meal. But I think nowadays, whether they are call boys or trippers, as long as you set already a schedule, that is already called Booking, believe me, I am good at this. It doesn’t mean that booking connotes money involvement because for 10 years of doing this, I haven’t tried to pay a man just for sex, everything is for free.
Go back to the movie; it’s interested in “turn of events” more than believable character actions. When the actor (Marco Morales) decides to offer his body to his manager (Emilio Garcia), the sex is generic titillation when we really would have benefited more from real emotions – the flickers of hesitation, submission, or elation. As it turns out, the movie’s agenda is to contribute yet another gay martyr in the dismal list of gay martyr movies, wherein the homosexual’s senseless demise is supposed to be the price of his pure love. I stopped buying any of its melodramatic manipulations halfway into the movie. Even the struggling actress (Mercedes Cabral, naked in many scenes) and her minor-aged brother (Charles Delgado, naked in one scene), both moonlighting as prostitutes, are prone to waxing poetic about their sorry states. There are welcome moments when the characters say something unexpected – such as when Cabral confronts Morales about whether he sleeps with his manager or most anything that comes out of Anita Linda’s mouth, as Morales’ frank grandmother – but otherwise, everyone ends up as lifeless brainless pawns in the grand design of pity.
Now, 8s ur turn to speak up!
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