MY RATING FOR THE FILM: 5 out of 5
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Binigyan ko ng highest rating ang pelikulang ito dahil sa mga sumusunod:
1. Effective si Baron Geisler na gumanap ng bading.
2. Gusto ko yung character ni Baron bilang field producer ng isang investigative
show.
3. Ang ganda ng flow ng storya, gusto ko yung treatment.
4. Sandamukal na media ethics violation ang napresent sa film. Siyempre
kung masscomm ka papatok talaga sa'yo yun kasi concern mo yun.
5. comedy-mystery ang genre. See? Hindi usual yang dalawa na yan na
pagsamahing genre sa film.
6. Magaling ang scriptwriter! IDOL NA KITA! Ang galing ng mga twist sa story.
MOVIE: JAY
[Directed by: Francis Pasion]
JULY 29, 2008 (TUESDAY)
@ UP Adarna Hall
*This Movie is part of the CINEMALAYA 2008 Film Entries.
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Well, it was a plan for the barkada talaga to watch films together and it was one of our kaberkz, "Berna" to invite us to watch Cinemalaya Films @ UP coz UP is having their own run of Cinemalaya Films of 2008 and since Berna is a Film Student at UP it was no hard time for us to get tickets and watch the movie.
It was reported kasi na sa Original Run niya sa CCP-PICC ay Sold Out tickets na ang movie na "Jay" and in the Cinemalay Awards, "Jay" won the Best Picture and Baron Geisler won as Best Actor. Naintriga naman ako and put interest on the film. Since I Love Films and I am also a Film Critic myself! At first, ayoko pa kasi i knew na Coco Martin is part of the Film, eh akala ko may too much sexually content ang movie. And Since ipapalabas sa UP naisip ko pa na NO CENSORSHIP ang movie...pero ayun, I was all wrong...THE MOVIE IS FANTASTIC and FIRST IN MY EYE!! as in!
"The Critics"
Berna, a UP Film Student; a Critic; a Soon to be Film Maker; A Movie Goer
Aa, written and posted 3 Blog sites containing All Movie Critics; A Movie Goer
Aa & Berna
"The Watchers"
Chin, a Nursing Student; a movie goer too; broad minded person
Khare, a psychology student; a movie goer also; opinionated person
Chin & Khare
This is my Review for it...
For me the unexpected triumph of the Film. Thank God for a movie like this--something long overdue given the insidious pervasiveness of our vapid TV culture. Spare, deadpan, brutally hilarious, Jay comments on--nay, eviscerates--the sheer artificiality and untruth of so-called reality television. And it does this without raising a voice--or, rather, without its damn good lead actor, Baron Geisler, doing so.
Playing a sweetly manipulative TV reporter who'd do anything, including re-creating scenes of genuine tragedy, to get his story, Geisler paces through his chores with nary a flutter of his gay character's well-scrubbed hands. He keeps everything soft-spoken, low-key, and yet by the end he conveys, with enormous power, the monstrous deceit of his actions. That precise, economical performance becomes the unblinking insider's eye that lets us take a peek at the fraudulent myth-making he creates for our tawdry consumption.
No Wonder he won Best Actor in the Cinemalaya Film Festival.
It's not just his performance that's commendable. Pasion's script is sharp, subtle, complex and thought-provoking, playing with and rearranging our notions of illusion and reality, truth and make-believe right up to the very last frame. (Brilliant lang yung tingin ko sa pagbrain storm nang mga kasama niya to work in the film to give us mixed genre and make it effective and not boring! talagang bebenta kasi yung twist and story line!) His multi-layered storytelling owes a debt to Almodovar, particularly to Bad Education, which, with generous dollops of bite and humor, also teased out the fine points of reality-making and truth-telling and the hazy subtexts in between.
At its most inspired, specifically the scenes of a wake in a barrio, Jay is howlingly funny, yet also piercingly discerning. You find yourself laughing and nodding your head at the same time. It's not the easiest film to make, thematically and stylistically; a few pushy moments induce the fear that it will inevitably lurch into camp or overwrought, self-conscious pomposity. But its poise holds throughout, giving us a movie whose grim vision will, I believe, only acquire prescient, consequential weight from now on--let TV be damned.
One of the FEW movies I Enjoyed and LOVE watching this 2008...(basically 3 pa nga lang ang movies na nagugustuhan ko both international and local movies na napapalabas!)
I Heard from berna na "100" which is also part of the Cinemalaya 08' is very interesting and well acted & directed..Better than Jay she added. I am looking forward to catch 100 and watch it too! I LOVE INDIE FILMS NA!!! They are all sooo UNIQUE and BRILLIANT!
KUDOS FOR THIS FILM!!!!
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