Watch out for spoilers! I will be mentioning spoilers from the film… so if you do not want spoilers, stop reading right now.
My wife and I visited Tawi Tawi a very long time ago in 1995 just to see the solar eclipse then. We were just in and out the same day. So not much touristy thing there, and I wasn’t in that touristy mode / wavelength / frequency of thinking at that time.
My fervent wish these days is to be a nosy tourist, peering in other people’s lives. In this case the Badjao people living in Bongao Tawi Tawi. From the safety of a cinema seat, to avoid any kidnapping, bandit encounters in that part of the country. It seems they just had to shoot on location. The place, the people, the costumes, the traditions were captured to my satisfaction… but I had hoped they would at least have used high definition like they do in Discovery Channel or National Geographic channel. Maybe we just watched it in the wrong cinema with a poor projector? Seems the Youtube movie trailer has better qualityContinue Reading