The audience is immersed in the quirky world of Cinta, framed by the four walls of her unpaid apartment: a kerfuffle of wigs, fairy lights, trinkets that decorate each furniture, each wall. Director Martika Ramirez Escobar deftly sees to it, together with the accomplished and dream-like visuals of Aaron Cabangis, parsimonious editing of Sari Estrada, and Victoria Mostoles’ elaborate production, another character in itself. And dream she continually does.Įverything around Cinta is as removed from reality as her state of mind. Every day the tall piles of VHS tapes are seen obsessively replayed, as Cinta dela Cruz relives the dreamy past that was taken away too soon. With her glory days long gone and forgotten, we are then reintroduced to the Cinta dela Cruz of the present (played with such verve and nuance by Mailes Kanapi): She is now a recluse, albeit still animated. We see her sudden rise to fame as quickly as it fades. The film opens narrating the humble beginnings of a young Cinta dela Cruz (played by the enchanting and funny Anna Deroca) and her quest to stardom, told in a colorful montage of vintage VHS clips of 70’s films she starred in. Pusong Bato, one of the ten short films vying for Cinemalaya’s top recognition this year, fortunately proves the latter, and more. Although it doesn’t hurt to take your brain along with you.When you are told that the premise of the film you are about to watch revolves around a has-been starlet who falls in love with a rock – yes, that unassuming, solidified piece of merged minerals you find everywhere – you can either cringe at its ridiculousness, or be excited that you may have unearthed something special.
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A close friend puts it this way: I just don’t see why people choose to buy flowers for their loved ones on the day flowers are most expensive and treat their loved ones to dine when most of the restaurants are full and traffic at a standstill.īitter? Pusong bato? I don’t think so. Or for you who celebrate this day of love. On her way to her job in a call center, she was stuck in heavy traffic for more than hour. On another note, my cousin was lamenting how she experienced the worst traffic in Manila during Valentine’s Day. We should be thankful that despite this bad rep of mining and geol in the country, there are those whose hearts haven’t been hardened by the constant baseless criticisms. There remain a lot of them wanting to “rock the world”, paving the way for responsible methods of harnessing Mother Nature’s mineral resources. Mining and geology have always been cast in a bad light – destructive, boring – that one would think students choosing their life path would veer away from these courses. Physically (geologically?), that’s true, I guess.
Like rocks and minerals are the center of their world. Then again that’s just me.īut listen to them educate non-Science students on the virtues of these rocks and you can’t help but admire how animated they are.
Rocks and minerals, while playing a vital role in the evolution and progress of man, are hardly the objects I would want to be facing on an everyday basis. I have spent much time with these remarkable young men but it hasn’t crossed my mind to ask them why they took up Geology and Mining Engineering. Listening to Ralph Abainza and Pedro Valencia, officers of YESS, talking about the rocks, I was struck with a sense of wonder. Living in Baguio, I am not new to seeing several of these but have not given so much thought as to how they were formed. The first time I viewed the rock displays, I was fascinated by them.
FT, as we call it, is a two-fold activity which features discussions on geology and mining in the country and an exhibit of miniature models of geologic structures, rocks and minerals found in the Philippines.
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I joined the Young Earth Scientists Society, an organization of Mining and Geology students, for their FutureThink series in Davao and Cebu. And so no, it is not about the senatoriable. To keep my sanity, I promised to avoid making political asides.
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