Eskandalo is helmed by “Paupahan” diretor, Joven Tan. The movie itself revolves around Benny the only son of well known family whose father were a retired general has well kept his sexuality to a minimum level until he met Lance who works as a masseur and moonlights as a hustler.
The Filipino film Eskandalo is being reported to be inspired by a recent YouTube video scandal in the country and is centered on a similar event: A pen marker is inserted in a gay guy’s rectum and a video of the act causes a scandal. The victim (Emilio Garcia) is a 35-year old virgin who is a teacher, belongs to a well-off family, whose father is a military man and mother is an active Catholic. The pen marker insertion is essentially an act of rape. And the guy who did it (Andrew Schimmer) is a callboy who temporarily went insane during that moment because of a life-long insecurity with his small penis.
Emilio Garcia’s performance has captured a character of an older gay teacher who classically displays an out and proud boys love lover in front of other people but still hides his identity from his family.
He gave a face to matured old gay guys who came out maybe round their late 20’s who is just starting to know and explore the ‘gay life’ and making common mistakes such as falling in love with a hustler /masseur and hoping that he is the knight in shining armor that “all boys love lovers hoped for”.
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