PINOY BLONDE
FILM REVIEW
Foreign
Influences
Peque Gallaga is considered the
Philippines equivalent to the early Spielberg and the director of Pinoy Blonde
Movie. This movie is the story of 2 cousins who is Andrew Tan and Conrad
Cunanan. Their dying Uncle Tom (Mark Gil) gives them a tasked to deliver a
brown bag to Maricopa Hotel which is an abandoned hotel. When they finally get
to the place, they encounter gang of criminals which is (Eddie Garcia and Jaime
Fabregas) who want to kill them and the interesting part of the movie story
started from this scene. Conrad Cunanan (Epi Quizon) in this movie he’s the
type of person that is very straight forward and always saying bad words on
what he is talking. Andrew Tan (Boy 2) is very sensitive and he feels that he
is older than his cousin and a leader.
After the final minute of the movie
Conrad Cunanan and Andrew Tan get the money from the bag and they’re happy
because they found out that the girlfriend of Conrad which is Yanni (Iza
Calsado) is pregnant. He promised to his cousin that he wants to live life to
Yanni forever.
This movie is a typical Pinoy film it
shows the true life story of Filipino people. It also shows us how foreign
movies influenced us Filipino. This film proved us that in every foreign movie
that we’re watching we Filipino have adapted their culture and we want also to
follow them in terms of hair style, dresses and etc. It is now alarming because
this movie show us; it is true that Filipino lifestyle and movies is already
dying.
A lot of movies appeal comes from its
constant dropping of different film references. There’s so many quotes came
from different films Star wars, Kill Bill, Terminator and The Matrix. Some
scenes are re-generated in the minds of main character to complement the movies
they’ve seen. This movie also has an animation and I think the animation helps
a lot the film to be successful. However this film also acknowledges the
changes in trends and the Pinoy taste in terms of movie. The music that they
use in this film is original composition and very Filipino. This is the best
part because they give life to the Filipino music and I think this film gives
an example that our music industry is not yet dying.
In terms of language of this film they
used an ordinary language that when you watch this film you can’t imagine that
they are professional actors because they’re speaking “BABAL” or Colloquial
terms. It is not like watching characters delivering their lines on Big Screen
but listening to an ordinary people in the street. I think the language is not
fit to the story because if you’re an educated person you don’t want to use a
words that the viewers or audience will be offend to what the actors are
talking but I understand that the Director has a reason why he choose this kind
of language and I think he wants the viewers feel and understand very well that
they want to proved that this language will be effective to the story. The
viewers enjoy the movie because they use a full conversation where in humor
comes from the dialogue itself.
This is not yet the end of all Filipino
movie but it is the beginning that Filipino Directors should inspired to do
movies that we should proud of. I observed that we Filipino’s are fan of doing
Indie Film in fact I see that it has a potential in our industry. I can say
that “There’s no wrong if sometimes your perspective is different from others
because if you do what you want it reflects you personality.”
