QCinemarathon: In Kapatiran, a sick brotherhood; in Sleepless, they’ll always have pares.
Kapatiran by Pepe Diokno
We were always 30 seconds away from getting up and walking out of Kapatiran, but the seemingly random scenes of life in Metro Manila were so familiar, we stayed just in case we turned up on the screen. It’s a kind of ethnographic study with attention-deficit disorder: a week in the life of this blasted city that we bitch about but can’t seem to leave.
Sleepless by Prime Cruz
Apart from describing the protagonist, the title is also tempting fate. Sleepless moves at such an even, placid clip that I may have nodded off for a few minutes. But that is still in keeping with the material: people deprived of sleep do blank out at odd moments.
Glaiza de Castro plays Gem, a call center agent with insomnia. The opening scenes showing Gem lying awake on her bed or staring at things in a picturesque manner suggest Lost In Translation in translation. Then Gem is assigned to help a new coworker, Barry (Dominic Roco), whom she introduces to the pleasures of sitting on the roof to stare at things in a picturesque manner.
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