The Post Haven: September 2011

Yesterday I got a treat from a friend and we watched together at SM San Lazaro in Tayuman, Manila. the indie film “Zoombading Pataying sa Shokot si Remington” It was really a total laugh trip watching it. This kind of movie you like to watch when everything around you seem all so intoxicating, the pressure from work, and all other things, this one really will make you laugh you lungs out right in your seat and you won’t regret paying P150.00 because the movie is all worth of your time and money and I bet you won’t go out in the theater without that big smile painted your lips and though it’s a comedy about gays, gays, and more gay thing this will never let you empty handed of good moral lessons that the movie trying to impart to its audiences, and that it’s the word R.E.S.P.E.C.T in all sense of the word. For me as one of the those people watching the movie, what comes to my mind is for others to learned that everyone is entitled of respect regardless of his gender, status, belief and religion. We all have place in this world and we all have choices that for some are not acceptable or not politically right we all know that deep inside us we feel that by making these choices we become free and happy and that is all that matters. The movie is focus on the main character in the movie Remington played by Mart Escudero a guy that was born straight. When he was young he always treated and called out loud fellow homosexuals “Bakla” and making those poor gays feels uncomfortable and ashamed whenever he bullied them by calling them bakla in public. One day when he and her mom went to commentary he saw a gay played by a credible and veteran actor Roderick Paulate who was superb in playing gay role from then and now. He mock the gay by calling him “Bakla” and because of that the gay got mad and he was cursed that when he grow up he will

become gay. Fast forward to the present

days a few days before his 21^st birthday the cursed manifested. He talk gay lingo and dress skimpy body fit shirts and shorty shorts. All the gay attitude one by one manifested and in short Remington was turning gay and on top of that there is a serial killer on the loose whose killing gays by hair dryer shoot gun that he steal from a geek student that invented it which can determine if an animal is a gay, but if it’s used to human it just not determine the person is gay but killing that person at the same time. Remington knows inside him that there is terribly and unspeakably wrong in him, something that he can neither explain nor fight.

A strong feeling that making him torn between his best friend Jigs (played by Kerbi Zamora) and his love interest Hannah (Played by Lauren Young) and for this he consulted witch doctor and it’s all comes back to him, a memories of himself as a six-year old boy who made fun of all the gays in town come rushing back. Most importantly he remembers the moment he was cursed.

That was fifteen years ago; now the spirit of the curse has come to life. Now what Remington should do is to choose: accept his fate that be will forever become gay or fight it and to top it all up, along the road of finding the answer to whatever happens to him now he must also sort out his feelings for the girl he loves and the his bestfriend whom he had sudden lusting attraction, a best friend that just confide to him that he accept him whoever and whatever he is. Whatever the outcome of the movie is who what Remington did is for you to answer by watching the movie yourself but what I can only say to you whether he succeeds or not of fighting the feeling that creep and grows inside him and by answering who the real serial killers that killed gays in his town? Remington and all the people around defiantly learned something from their experience that teaching them to become a better person and learned to respect others