11/11/2023 0 Comments Incontrollable![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, in a company located in a well-off district works the wealthy 15-year-old insta Danny (Francis Magundayao). The idea of claiming the title of “ insta” poisons his mind to pursue the same path, while the idea of becoming a “ gra-gra” or people who have graduated in universities, is now a thing of the past. After learning that his friend has several courses installed in his brain and garnered diplomas in the form of small glowing cards, Victor realizes that he is fed up of his monotonous life. That is until he comes across Arnel (Junjun Quintana), his childhood friend who has driven to the province with a red car. Victor (McCoy de Leon), a teenager who is used to plowing the fields with a carabao and sleeping with his family inside a small hut, belongs to the dreaming poor. It is this initial scene in which Laxamana subtly foregrounds not only the central conflict of the plot but the saddening societal situation: the division between the rich and the poor, whereas the poor can only wish for a miracle to experience the life in the city, and the rich are looking down at them. From the dry plains of Pampanga, Kapampangans witness a hologram of skyscrapers populating the capital. Jason Paul Laxamana’s sci-fi entry Instalado for the second ToFarm Film Festival thrusts the viewers into a reimagined futuristic world, where the Philippines, despite its provinces remaining reduced into rubble, has acquired advanced technology, including the installation, to rebuild Manila and educate its citizens. ![]() Despite gaining popularity and having been adopted by countries all over the globe, the process, however, comes with a price for humankind. From this initiative bore the “installation,” the process of stocking knowledge directly inside people’s brains. STEMMING FROM a dream of a fast-paced progression, the Chinese took the initiative to revamp the process of learning. DYKEE poster from Instalado Facebook page ![]()
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