Justin Chang
speaker
1,518 appearances
49 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 6d ago
Justin Chang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Our guide is a seventeen year old girl named Isabel.
Played by the intensely watchful Jori Bell Agoto.
Isabel has just started working at the driving range as a tea girl.
Whose job is to tee up balls for golfers, one after another.
It's a tedious, ridiculous task, one of many that keep the resort in operation.
Some workers are forced to spend hours waiting in the ponds, fishing out errant golf balls.
It's mostly through Isabel's sharp eyes that the movie's class critique comes into focus and
We follow her as she wanders this carefully manufactured paradise, which is dotted with non native trees that have been trucked in from afar and meticulously planted.
Isabel has a rebellious streak.
And she can't help breaking the rules and sampling the resort's amenities.
Whether she's dipping a finger in a guest's strawberry cake, taking a shower in a spa, or simply basking in a few minutes of air-conditioned bliss.
Manuel also introduces us to another key character, the
A significantly more privileged young woman named Clara, played by Carmen Castellanos.
Clara, who lives in New York, is visiting the resort with her uncle.
Who wants her to move back to the Philippines and help him run his golf equipment business?
Her uncle insists it's her duty to support her country, and fight what he calls brain drains.
The flight of young Filipinos seeking better opportunities abroad.
But Clara is reluctant.
Probably because, like Isabel, she can see that people are being exploited and marginalized in the name of development and progress.
Filipinana has just a few spare dribbles of plot.
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