IT WAS a room full of bespectacled gentlemen and two women in white coats. They hovered over a large rectangular table that had scattered on it various herbs, animal parts, all the salts in the world, and loads of tools: droppers, blenders, knives, pans, pens. It almost looked like a NASA laboratory.
YES, Pinoys definitely love their action flicks. Some see them as momentary escape from their dreary life, while others imagine themselves as the invincible action hero who swoops down to conquer and save an entire barrio from the usual suspects. Or maybe they just want to get the girl.
IF, as the rather hackneyed expression asserts, life imitates art, then arguably Philippine Cinema provides ample fodder for those attempting to explain the often-frenzied nature of Filipino society.
