Tale of the Lost Boys

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Audience Member Tale of the Lost Boys, directed by Joselito Altarejos, was produced in Taiwan and was screened as early as July 2017 in Japan. It stars Oliver Aquino as Alex, a Filipino visiting Taipei who becomes friends with an Ataval bartender named Jerry (Soda Voyu). Jerry ends up taking Alex on a road trip through Yilan, where he's from, and the two end up guiding each other through their own personal issues. The film has a slow, drifting narrative that isn't at all concerned with the rhythms of a typical story. Alex has big issues going on, but the whole point is that he isn't sure that he's ready to deal with any of it. The film becomes much more about Jerry's struggle with his identity as an aborigine and how it clashes with the person he's become while living in the big city. But that isn't really resolved in a way that one might be expecting. The movie's just really loose, and it's happy to be loose. It finds focus in depicting the growing friendship between the two characters, and the ways that they discover that their two cultures, while being completely different on the surface, have more in common than they think. Ultimately, the film creates this sense of true empathy between them that is genuinely affecting in strange and unexpected ways. ROGUE RECOMMENDS?: Sure. This is a relaxing little jaunt that gets to some intriguing ideas about cultural differences. -BY PHILBERT DY, ART BY ANDREW PANOPIO http://rogue.ph/festival-report-sinag-maynila-2018/ Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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