Sunday, November 04, 2007
Halloween in Glorietta
Ibang-iba ang Glorietta ngayon! Puwede kang magpatintero! Buti nahatak ko si Gladys na manood ng French art film "Perfume" (that so many people have been raving about) kung hindi papasok ako sa isang empty, as in empty, na theater! Nakakatakot!
Buti na lang nakalma kami agad ni Gladys nang ma-realize naming mang isang mama nakaupo sa pinaka-front row. Pero, come to think of it, hindi siya gumagalaw, ha. At hindi ko rin siya namalayang tumayo't lumabas ng theater right after the film. Hmmmm....
Oh, tapos na pala ang showing ng "Perfume" so pinanood na lang namin ang "The Rear Window," ang isa sa Alfred Hitchcock films na featured sa Halloween Frightfest something ng G4. Considering medyo may mga namatay recently sa mall na'yun, tama bang magkaroon pa sila ng frightfest? Well, Halloween naman and iba pa ring mapanood ang mga classic films sa big screen.
Pero iba talaga ang aliwalas ng Glorietta! Puntahan n'yo! Hindi naman talaga ako na-bother sa bombing-bombing na'yan. Iniisip ko, what are the chances na bombahin siya ulit right after, no? (Though nasunog siya days after the bombing. Talk about malas.)
Ah, basta! Una pa lang lumabas 'yung print ads ng "Perfume" gusto ko nang sumugod ng Glorietta. The way Direk Rico described the film (months ago, ha. SFiles pa ang kalaban ng The Buzz at hindi ang top-rating na Showbiz Central): "Sa ending, nagkantutan sila! Nagkantutan!" Pero maganda talaga kasi 'yung premise ng film at napaka-theatrical pa nu'ng dini-describe ni Direk 'yung film.
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Namomroblema siguro ngayon ang mga Ayala dahil dinidiin ng PNP na gas explosion nga ang naganap. Well, sabi rin nila noon shootout ang ikinamatay ng Kuratong Baleleng. At in fairness, senador na ngayon ang mastermind nu'n. Sino naman kaya sa gobyerno/pulisya/militar ang uunlad ang career (kaching! kaching!) dahil binomba sa pambobomba ng Glorietta?
According to a reliable source, Glorietta is insured by a Hong Kong company against acts of terrorism (such as bombings) so mahihirapan yatang maka-collect ang Ayala Land while "official" (not necessarily intelligent) investigations belie the pronouncement of esteemed UP engineers that a gas or methane explosion wouldn't be that disastrous nor deadly.
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Nu'ng nag-Imelda Tour kami nina Carlo at Roy, napakaganda ng insight ni Carlos Celdran about the whole Film Center thing. Sabi niya, "gossip is currency." He recounted the story we've heard over and over again: Imelda wanted to build the Parthenon where the Manila International Film Festival will be held. She rushed the construction that the "revolutionary" quick-dry cement didn't hold out and the building crumbled, burying hundreds of workers. Not wanting to delay the opening, survivors were asked to chop off exposed limbs of the corpses buried in the cement and construction continued. It is said that one of the organizers died after the film festival. She was with her boytoy (daw) driving up to Tagaytay when they saw (daw) the ghosts of those buried in the Manila Film Center that they accidently drove the car a ravine.
But, Carlos asks, how come the very religious, and very superstitious Filipinos don't light a candle at the Film Center every Undas when we would immediately do so at any spot where anybody dies? Or why no family member of those allegedly buried in the building has ever surfaced even after a recent Howie Severino iWitness documentary encouraged them to do so, especially now that the Marcoses are not in power and they could very dig up the building to look for their bodies?
For all we know, Imelda is telling the truth in saying nobody was left to die in the rubble. But the climate then was just so horrible that people would more willingly believe a more sinister story.
Just as now, people are more ready to believe that people in power (and desperately clinging to power) are behind the Glorietta explosion even if the Glorietta shoppers' pee and shit were really to blame.
Buti na lang nakalma kami agad ni Gladys nang ma-realize naming mang isang mama nakaupo sa pinaka-front row. Pero, come to think of it, hindi siya gumagalaw, ha. At hindi ko rin siya namalayang tumayo't lumabas ng theater right after the film. Hmmmm....
Oh, tapos na pala ang showing ng "Perfume" so pinanood na lang namin ang "The Rear Window," ang isa sa Alfred Hitchcock films na featured sa Halloween Frightfest something ng G4. Considering medyo may mga namatay recently sa mall na'yun, tama bang magkaroon pa sila ng frightfest? Well, Halloween naman and iba pa ring mapanood ang mga classic films sa big screen.
Pero iba talaga ang aliwalas ng Glorietta! Puntahan n'yo! Hindi naman talaga ako na-bother sa bombing-bombing na'yan. Iniisip ko, what are the chances na bombahin siya ulit right after, no? (Though nasunog siya days after the bombing. Talk about malas.)
Ah, basta! Una pa lang lumabas 'yung print ads ng "Perfume" gusto ko nang sumugod ng Glorietta. The way Direk Rico described the film (months ago, ha. SFiles pa ang kalaban ng The Buzz at hindi ang top-rating na Showbiz Central): "Sa ending, nagkantutan sila! Nagkantutan!" Pero maganda talaga kasi 'yung premise ng film at napaka-theatrical pa nu'ng dini-describe ni Direk 'yung film.
***
Namomroblema siguro ngayon ang mga Ayala dahil dinidiin ng PNP na gas explosion nga ang naganap. Well, sabi rin nila noon shootout ang ikinamatay ng Kuratong Baleleng. At in fairness, senador na ngayon ang mastermind nu'n. Sino naman kaya sa gobyerno/pulisya/militar ang uunlad ang career (kaching! kaching!) dahil binomba sa pambobomba ng Glorietta?
According to a reliable source, Glorietta is insured by a Hong Kong company against acts of terrorism (such as bombings) so mahihirapan yatang maka-collect ang Ayala Land while "official" (not necessarily intelligent) investigations belie the pronouncement of esteemed UP engineers that a gas or methane explosion wouldn't be that disastrous nor deadly.
***
Nu'ng nag-Imelda Tour kami nina Carlo at Roy, napakaganda ng insight ni Carlos Celdran about the whole Film Center thing. Sabi niya, "gossip is currency." He recounted the story we've heard over and over again: Imelda wanted to build the Parthenon where the Manila International Film Festival will be held. She rushed the construction that the "revolutionary" quick-dry cement didn't hold out and the building crumbled, burying hundreds of workers. Not wanting to delay the opening, survivors were asked to chop off exposed limbs of the corpses buried in the cement and construction continued. It is said that one of the organizers died after the film festival. She was with her boytoy (daw) driving up to Tagaytay when they saw (daw) the ghosts of those buried in the Manila Film Center that they accidently drove the car a ravine.
But, Carlos asks, how come the very religious, and very superstitious Filipinos don't light a candle at the Film Center every Undas when we would immediately do so at any spot where anybody dies? Or why no family member of those allegedly buried in the building has ever surfaced even after a recent Howie Severino iWitness documentary encouraged them to do so, especially now that the Marcoses are not in power and they could very dig up the building to look for their bodies?
For all we know, Imelda is telling the truth in saying nobody was left to die in the rubble. But the climate then was just so horrible that people would more willingly believe a more sinister story.
Just as now, people are more ready to believe that people in power (and desperately clinging to power) are behind the Glorietta explosion even if the Glorietta shoppers' pee and shit were really to blame.
# posted by rey agapay @ 7:46 AM 
