Ayesha Harris

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4,046 appearances 30 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Pop Culture Happy Hour · Watch this: Filipiñana · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

This is a it's a slow burn type of movie. matched

Soak it in. matched

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But there is choreography in this film, right? matched

Because that's another thing that's so striking about this is that early on we see when all of the employees of this country club are getting ready for the new batch of tourists to arrive and guests to arrive. matched

It feels buzzy Berkeley ish in a way, where at one point you're seeing them all like matched

Brooming and sweeping at the same pace and in rhythm and like lifting the tablecloths and all those things. matched

And it's it's very, I guess I would push back a little bit on the idea that this movie is subtle because I don't think this movie is really subtle. matched

All right, maybe not didactic. matched

Yeah. matched

That's what that's what I would say is that it's it's not didactic, but it it is overt, I think, in the contrasts and everything that you all have talked about. matched

The didacticism, I think, comes matched

if you see this or if you're already familiar with the Philippines and the way the economy works, there's all this subtext that matched

I think is there and and and the fact that like and I didn't know any of this before watching this movie, but after watching it I was curious, like, okay, what is the story here? matched

Because, you know, as I said, we've seen so many versions of upstairs, downstairs, the rich people are awful and careless, like especially coming out of Hollywood and out of Europe and we've seen those kinds of stories. matched

Why does this feel different to me? matched

And I'm not really sure I can I can express it, but you know, having read up on this and understanding the fact that matched

This movie is drawing on so much history in the Philippines. matched

The fact that like it's still a very heavily agrarian economy and that farming and that land is often owned by really rich families. matched

Right. matched

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