In doing so, he gets the viewers’ respect, not just for himself, but others of his kind – the ones who long to escape from the dictates of their DNA. For a minute there, you think Felix would lose control and self destruct. Khalil acquits himself well later, though in a breakdown scene where he releases pent-up emotions the way a dam lets go of everything it has held back for years. But they fail to give justice to his character when his exposure to sexually provocative things still leaves him wide-eyed and wanting in emotion. This vacant look serves him well in scenes where Felix experiences "worldly" things for the first time. But his eyes-at times shown in extreme close up-don’t mirror the intelligence his role as the class’ all-time topnotcher does. Khalil has that wide-eyed, innocent look of a barrio boy whose world revolves around school and home.
The brothers ask Felix’s help in school assignments, until friendship blossoms between Felix and Magnus. The gay-themed film is about high school achiever Felix (Khalil Ramos), whose boring life bursts with color when Fil-Am brothers Magnus and Maxim Snyder (Ethan Salvador and Jameson Blake, respectively) arrive in Angeles City. The movie is set in the late 1990s in Pampanga a decade after the eruption of Mt.
This is what makes Cinema One Original’s 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten stand out. Making others feel the joy of creation and the pain of destruction-albeit vicariously-offers thrills like no other. It’s great to see a caterpillar transform into a butterfly an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan.īut it’s devastating to see the rise and fall of the Roman Empire depressing to see popular leaders turn into dictators.
That’s because they’re about changes-good and/or bad.