Robin Padilla wakes up with a corpse in his trunk and zero memory. Filipino noir at its most unhinged.
The owner Gil Blanco (Robin Padilla) lives alone with his 7-year-old son Niño ( John Michael Reyes ). Since his wife Rose was separated from him, he drowns his frustration in alcohol and suffers from blackouts, after which he can only remember spongy operations. One day he wakes up after a blackout and remembers that he has crossed Isabel (Ella Guevara), the daughter of a tenant Belen (Iza Calzado). He finds her dead body in the trunk and places them next to the water tank. Now his life is slipping him completely, he becomes paranoid and confused.
Acting
Padilla's physical deterioration is genuinely hard to watch.
Direction
Bautista turns cramped Manila apartments into claustrophobic hellscapes.
Director
Ato Bautista
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in actual Manila tenement housing, using non-actors as extras—Bautista wanted the smell of real desperation.
Padilla allegedly stayed drunk between takes to maintain Gil's tremors; Calzado called it 'method acting that endangered everyone.'
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