Foot and Fire

     While I was simmering my ideas for this blog entry after watching Netflix's Kontrabida Academy , I came across a news article posted by  ABS-CBN News just an hour ago as of this writing saying that content creators launched Creators Against Corruption . This made me smile because I immediately had a wild thought that these content creators must have graduated from the K ontrabida Academy.        These content creators must have felt powerlessness in their meekness and patience and by the external forces that takes advantage of that meekness and patience that they immediately enrolled in the Kontrabida Academy and emerged as best fighters by all means. I myself felt that way. I wanted to be Classmates with them and Mayor Vico in this cause. I am a public servant serving my fellow citizens since I was 26 years old, and though I did my share in stopping corruption within my sphere of influence, I felt that it is never enough, that i...

I was looking for a movie to watch on Netflix when I stumbled on this Korean thriller. I was surprised that I liked the film for many reasons. I have not read the webtoon to which the movie was based and I couldn't tell if the movie is a faithful rendition or has some special addition to it.  First, I was pleased that there's no unnecessary comedy the K dramas are known for.  Second, I was surprised that the director was from the movie Train to Busan, a highly successful zombie film which I think just a so-so when you assess it visually and when it comes to character exposures in the story. (To digress, I now recalled that I also liked the Peninsula as the standalone sequel to the Train to Busan). The actors are well-chosen for their roles. The Pastor, the detective and the ex-convict, the triad of the movie are all fit for their roles. The visual cues are all necessary and useful given the 2 hours limitation of a film. The film has tied the loose ends so that the ...

Because I loved Netflix's eight-part series Ripley for a lot of reasons, I was compelled to read the book to which it was based, The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. This was a novel experience for me to  want to read after watching a movie based on a book. Part of it perhaps was because I want to find out more about the paintings featured in the film only for me to uncover that none of them was referenced in the book.     Director and writer Steven Zaillan did deliver a visually stunning film from a book with a valuable addition of allusions to the life of Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio whose works led the way to modern chiaroscuro , a technique that heavily uses light and dark to which was later referred as tenebrism  from the Italian word tenebroso which means dark, gloomy, mysterious.  The black-and-white wide shots and the micro shots are all necessary ingredients to the film's delectable dish. As homage to the book, the...

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