SUBSCRIBEEndo - Jade Castro, 2007
Endo is short for end of contract, a current concern for many Filipino workers who are employed as casuals usually working in 6 months period after which their contract expires and they are left with no other option but to look for another work. This is so because employers would want to keep costs low and would not be bothered with wage increases, insurance and benefits that are the norm in gainfully employed workers.
This endo mentality permeates also the mindset of the characters (and perhaps ordinary people under contract work?) that life seems to hang in the balance just as loves are lost and gained as work contracts are completed and started again.
What I do like about the movie is that its about love and hope. Losing it and finding it. That there is more to life being contented with just having a salary to meet the most basic of needs or to have someone just to be able to be with. It has life’s lessons that we sometimes need to be reminded of from time to time.
I say this is one of the must see films in the recent Cinemalaya. A love story deftly told by Jade Castro, a good writer now director. With Michiko Yamamoto as one of the producer, you can be assured of a good movie.
