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Stray Cats
Go See this Movie ****(Four Stars)
Wicked, bizarre, sadistic, and yet realistic. This is a
film that encompasses the full range of human emotion. From
elated joy to the darkest suicidal moment, back up to fun
and frolic then right back down to the moment of despair and
grief. The title emphasizes Stray Cats and the movie
compares them to men/boyfriends. No matter how much you
love a stray cat, you can pet it, feed it and yet it is
still capable of turning right around and walking out the
door never to return.
Our journey zooms in on the life of Boyet (Ricky
Davao) and Marta (Irma
Adlawan) who live side by side in a duplex.
They are both single, he is gay, she is straight and
coincidently they both have man troubles. In fact their
lives are almost mirror images of each other or at least
their emotions are. When things are good they are above the
clouds laughing and carrying on like there is no tomorrow
almost in a moment of musical theatre but when things are
bad they bond together and wallow in self destruction,
borderline insane asylum craziness.
Go See this movie, it will most definitely cause you to look
inward and do some self reflecting as you compare yourself
to the roller coaster of the lives on screen. This is a
bilingual journey with Tagala (the language of the
Philipines) and English both spoken equally as they
eloquently move back and forth from sentence to sentence,
with such ease you barely notice. So yes sometimes you are
reading captions and sometimes you are not.
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