Being open entails a lot of meanings. It can be a doorway, a passage, or it may mean transparent. Cinema, as we know, stems from ordinary stories of daily lives in different faces. These representations may be formulaic or experimental, streamlined or self-expressed. And we must look at films with
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A man in his early 20s arrives at the emergency room for a chief complaint of abdominal pain. As the surgical clerk posted at the triage station, you ask further details and palpate the abdomen. Noting diffuse abdominal pain with non-localized tenderness, among other unremarkable findings, the resident-on-duty advises to
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Gino M. Santos’s follow-up to his exuberant if shrouded debut The Animals is set once again within a circle of upper-class, party-‘till-drop youth (here, a quartet of twenty-somethings) frequenting night bars as if they were their sacred intersections, flush in neon lights and pumped with skittering beats and booming synths. The
