This film could not have been made today, at least not without public backlash and definitely not by a major studio. This was my immediate reaction right after I saw the restored and remastered version of Mike De Leon’s Kakabakaba Ka Ba?, which was, in 1980, a last-ditch attempt at
Author: James Espinoza
I like film the way I like food, and while eating gourmet is fine, I gotta have my fast food, too.
Miss Bulalacao
Miss Bulalacao narrates how an entire barrio is sent into a frenzy by the news that a gay boy has suddenly become pregnant. It opens with a small-town drag pageant, during which Dodong (sensitively played by Russ Ligtas) is asked what the essence of being a woman is. His reply:
