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What Endo did for me
Pepper Roxas
[info]chuvaness
July 26th, 2007
Current Location:
The Mandarin, Singapore
"Don't expect too much ok," UFO Pictures' Raymond Lee told me when I said I was going to watch Endo that night.
"Oh, but I'm expecting a lot."
"Why?"
"Because everybody's raving about it."

Endo movie


Even Jessica Zafra liked it and it's from the creators of Maximo Oliveros.

So maybe I didn't quite get it. Everyone I know loved it and I don't know why. Perhaps they can leave a comment and say why.
Did I miss something?

One thing it did for me is to see these "endo" employees as humans.
I felt guilty while watching the movie, thinking I'm one of those customers from hell who just terrorize fastfood employees. Like this guy:

Jessica Zafra wrote: "Its characters are the 'invisible' people—the waiter who brings your coffee, the hotel staff who changes the towels, the salesgirl who gets the shoes in your size. The tables are turned; you eavesdrop on them."

After seeing the movie I began to see them as people with lives and feelings and not someone to bark on when they get your order wrong.

I went to Jollibee to get some food and the guy who greeted me (a service crew) told me I looked cute. I liked that.
The cashier couldn't get my order right, and normally I would roll my eyes, but this time I just laughed and asked her, "Are you OK?" instead of barking. She laughed with me and then we got my order right.

I wish someone would make a movie about household help. They're always portrayed as background characters. How about a movie about the lives of these helpers who make our lives more comfortable. Their lovelives, their trysts in garages and behind the bushes, their problems, dreams, etc.

Or maybe someone can make a movie about the security guards who terrorize us with "Anong purpose niyo?" Stopping us from entering, sitting, waiting, taking pictures, checking prices.
They look inside our bags, force us to check in our bags, basically annoying the hell out of us.
I need to see a human side of them, so maybe I/we can understand and not want to kill them everytime they treat all of us like we're carrying a bomb.
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It's a sensitive portrait of endos in the guise of an effective love story. Probably the smartest Filipino digital narrative I've seen in recent years, definitely better than Maxi.
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oo masgusto ko siya a lot more than maxi.

okay lang yan cecile. i remember I felt the same way about The English Patient. While everyone was loving it, I was "baket?" Nakaka-OP lang nga.
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uy, i liked English Patient. lol
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i was also "huh, why?" with english patient. i can't stand it.

id like to know what goes on in the minds and hearts of household help/yayas. i've been so proud of my yayas/maids because i've never lost one. they've all stayed with me except for one who went to london to be with her son. and she told me about her plans right from the moment i hired her. i've heard horror stories about yayas. but so far i had been so lucky, up until yesterday.

i just called our house yest (im still on vacation) and found out that my favourite yaya (soph's) packed her bags and left. she wrote a letter. "sorry i couldn't say goodbye properly. i have to go." i'm devastated because i really liked her and my daughter loved her. she;s looking forward to seeing her next week. her heart will break... how do i explain the sudden disappearance? it's like a pet dying. i woke up with a heavy heart. it feels like a boyfriend break-up.

turns out she was just with us as a transition. she's in between jobs (overseas). and is getting ready to leave the country. but why a Dear John letter? why not face to face paalam.

while most people refer to this as "layas" of a yaya. i feel like i've been dumped. all along i thought she loved my daughter... because soph really really loved her.

sad sad sad

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that is really sad. it happened to me with Ben's first yaya. She left even before Ben was born. she went on a day off and never came back. It hurt so much, especially when you were so nice to them, didn't have a clue something was wrong.
At least you had a note. All our yaya left was a couple of T-shirts and an empty shampoo bottle.
Sometimes you think they really love your child, but they don't love your child like they do. And the child always loves them more than they do the child.
Soph will be fine and will forget, promise. Just tell her the truth.
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really sad because we spend time building a relationship. and then to them it's just a job pala. heart breaking.
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hmm, this is interesting, but isn't it a job anyway? i understanding the building relationship part, but you have to remember they are not yayas/maid just for the relationship, they do that first and foremost because they need money like any regular working joe.

I haven't seen the movie, but I know I can relate to it. I worked as a food server in a French resto for 1 1/2yrs and I realized that there are a lot of obnoxious people out there talaga. Sometimes some customers just don't know how to think, hay kainis talaga. So I can totally relate to these tired workers, I understand their pain.
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It's been a few days... I'm still sad.

While we're here, can anyone help me get a new yaya. LOL. joke... not. hee hee.

Tell me about kimora when you have time.
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That's a sad story Daphne. I would hate to think that the yaya did not love Soph. I'm sure she did. Maybe she didn't say goodbye b/c it was hard for her too. Maybe it was easier for her to just leave a note than to see Soph. Maybe I'm just an optimist but I just try to see the best of everything and everyone. I'm sure Soph will be fine.
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you, jessica, ricky, jay...

[info]chuvaness

2007-07-26 04:25 pm (UTC)

wow. i must've missed something talaga.
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wonderful idea, cecile :) i always feel sorry for security guards during the holidays, at least the househelp spend it with us kahit papano, i mean, they get to eat and watch fireworks... pero the security guards they're in their little guardhouses lang. kawawa :(
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this is true and depressing. i remember our guard in Grocery. alone at Christmas and New Year. what a depressing movie that would be. It would be more depressing than Sunflower with Marcelo Mastroianni and Sophia Loren which is the most depressing movie I have ever seen. oh, I'm getting sad now.
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ay naiyak rin ako sa sunflower.
oh, btw, may festival ang cinema one from august 1 to 5. kasama ang everybody's favorite -- temptation island ni joey gosengfiao.
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the problem with Sunflower is it's so depressing you can't even cry. your throat just ACHES the whole time.
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sorry i stopped feeling sorry for guards and whatnot after i spent 5 xmases in a row on call alone in the hospital working. it's worse. at least the guards just sit there. i had to clean up pee and shit for ungrateful people.
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sorry, Dr. Wu, natawa ako.
thanks for that.
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i agree with you totally..i would love to see another side to the gaurds...growing up in canada i've never felt my privacy so infringed on as i did while going to the malls and various buildings in the philippines lol..i went to see a movie at greenbelt 3 and i didn't hear the girl say "bag" at me cause i thought she waved the dectector/wand at my bag already so i assumed i could walk away but then she yelled at me like i was commiting a crime and i said "opps sorry i'm not used to this, we don't do this at home" that got her to soften up...lol sad to say when all else fails "use the english" as my cousins like to say...but that's a whole different story all together...
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sometimes when I'm not in the mood I just walk past them. but for the most part I'm ready to open my bag. it's their job. what i hate is when they compel you to check in your bag in some stores, like you're gonna steal something. I can't help that all my bags are big, so if they do that, I don't enter the store.
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RE: Endo. The storytelling was good, in my opinion, that's why I liked it. When I go see a movie, I concentrate on the story (that's why I fall asleep at action flicks) and I don't really "care" about the characters in particular. I dunno if that's wrong, but that's my style. Try nyo. Kasi nga a good director TELLS a story. I DID particularly like the character Pol because unpredictable yung mga hirit nya.
RE: Ya! I love Sunflower (both the movie and the biskwit)! I saw the movie on Betamax.
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jeroen liked Pol too. who's that guy?

Hooray, another Sunflower fan.
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"I wish someone would make a movie about household help. They're always portrayed as background characters"

Meron, although short film. eto o
http://www.arkeofilms.com/mansyon/index.html

Same filmakers as the hilarious Bigtime=)
http://www.arkeofilms.com/bigtime/index.html
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the trailer is moving. I'd like to see it.
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It was shown on cinemalaya sayang:

MANSYON (Joel Ruiz),
21 Jul/Sat (03:30 PM), CCP Silangan Hall
26 Jul/Thu (10:00 AM), CCP MKP Hall

direk is friends with the arkeo people though, he can help you get a copy
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oh jiki would love to see this! :)
me too, but her more than me.
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saw you there, with the hubby
but was too shy to say hello hehehe
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i was wondering where you were
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does he understand FIlipino? I was wondering lang coz it didn't have subtitles...
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he can follow a little. i had no kasama so he came. sweet naman
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you were with jeroen? how did he find the film?
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