(As an aside: so many elements in 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten recall Petersen VargasвЂ™ earlier work in the short film Lisyun qng Geografia/Geography Lessons: the setting in Pampanga, the high-school student characters, the themes of friendship and sexual confusion, even specific images like friends walking among tall, picturesque grass.) (Recall the symbolic opening shot of the film: a close-up of Felix, opening his eyes.) 2 Cool complicates this through Magnus, who, with his brother Maxim (Jameson Blake), stirs strange new desires in the usually-aloof Felix, culminating in FelixвЂ™s uncomfortable responses to his sexual awakening. We watch the familiar plot of an eccentric school achiever developing a friendship with a well-admired but academically-challenged student. His arrival is the catalyst for what 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten becomes in its second act: a coming-of-age story, at least superficially. His foreign appearance, out of place in the schoolвЂ™s forlorn surroundings, is striking. One such fascinating person arrives one day in FelixвЂ™s class: Magnus Snyder (Ethan Salvador), a half-American transferee. Contrast this with what Felix considers the greatest legacy of the American servicemen in Clark: pretty houses and вЂfascinating peopleвЂ™. The school Felix attends have cold, unpainted walls, as if the rush to rebuild the structures after the onslaught of lahar left no budget for ornamentation. This is the вЂOFW dreamвЂ™, institutionalized. In FelixвЂ™s school, the teachers have clear ambitions for the top performers in class: that they will go on to find work abroad. They declare this using their own faulty diction. The teachers, not content with calling Filipino languages barbaric, brand the use of Kapampangan on campus as a вЂbarrioticвЂ™ act (thereby equating the barrio, a rural village, with backwardness).

The secondary school he attends is implementing an English-speaking policy.

Warning: this review presents a reading of the film, and it necessarily shares details of plot and other elements, or вЂspoilersвЂ™.Дў Cool 2 Be 4gotten introduces us to Felix Salonga (Khalil Ramos), an exemplary student. Combine this directorial reputation with young actors capable of competent, convincing performances, and we have a compelling film in our hands. Sometimes, as with this film, his first full-length work, he maximizes cinematic language in telling his story, while still infusing it with his unique gaze. Sometimes, as with Steady, he paints a mood through the cinematic equivalent of sweet nothings-stylized, mesmerizing visuals with no particular statements.

Petersen Vargas, in a limited rГ©sumГ© consisting of such shorts as Geography Lessons and the music video for BP ValenzuelaвЂ™s Steady, has already demonstrated a distinct style before working on 2 Cool. The combined visual effect evokes the nostalgia of old Kodak photos-a nostalgia that tends to summon simple, happy recollections while conveniently forgetting painful, complicated memories. This is the backdrop of 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten, though the film obscures the consequences of its setting behind blithe cinematography, frames color-graded to a fresh and hopeful palette. Meanwhile, American military forces have recently evacuated the bases in Clark air field and nearby Subic Bay, partly as a result of the Pinatubo disaster, and partly as a result of political decisions by a nation asserting its sovereignty. The volcanic material combine with rainwater from perennial typhoons to produce lahar the government builds the Megadike in an attempt to contain its destructive power. Pinatubo that buried so many of the provinceвЂ™s towns under massive volumes of debris. Several years have passed since the eruption of Mt. It is the late 1990s in the province of Pampanga.

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