It's a gay indie film. The characters are not celebrities... probably seen by the casting director while s/he was on vacation in a province. It was amateur. The sex scenes looked really wrong... and the actors looked tense and conscious of themselves.
The story was somewhat confusing.. until then end when we realized the parallelism of the old man cleaning graves and the lead actor. At first, we didn't mind that the 'flashback' character looked so much like the lead actor.. they were one in the same... *insert nervous laugh*
The story spoke of a diwata.. a fairy in the lighthouse, where the lead actor was keeper. Right then, we had quickly deduced that the diwata did not mean a spirit. It was one's inner self. That innate characteristic of us that our consciousness tries to bottle up. Our primal instinct? Our deepest, darkest desires that are conveniently taboo?
That's what the movie was all about... releasing your inner demons destroys relationships, destroys your loved ones.. and in the end, you destroy yourself.
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Sorry, that was a shallow explanation for what the movie was trying to tell us.. unfortunately, I was feeling shallow for watching that movie with my sister. She could not handle the homoerotic scenes.. and I feel sorry for her. I spent more than half the time consoling her while she squirmed in her seat, scratching my arm, anything!
What I had reflected on the movie was this (yes, I actually analyze gay soft porn): Do not release inner demons when you are not sure of it yourself. Accepting yourself and who you are may give you a happy ending. This one didn't.
At first, he was happy with the relationship that he had with the guy from the city. But then, when faced with the fact that he is gay (he used to have a fiancee before running off to the city in search of his soon-to-be-boyfriend)... he turns the other cheek. He hurts the only person who loves him and tries to go back to his past he can never have.
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