Word: dinies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film opens with scenes of the rebellion of 1956 that are shot in black and white with incongruous swing music playing in the background. In a smoking crater, the father of Dini Koves (Istan Znamenak), the movie's hero, is burying something. The white lightning through the smoke is actually quite impressive. During the following scene, Papa tears himself away from his family to flee back to the United States. All the participants in this emotionally charged situation, however, seem emotionally uninvolved. Papa moves as if someone offstage is yelling directions at him: Over here, no, over there...
...remainder of the film, excepting the epilogue, takes place some years later while Dini is in high school, and is shot through some kind of blue fog filter. This technique sometimes gives the sensation of dreaminess, and sometimes gives the sensation of a blue fog filter...
After discussions with his family on whether or not "to go on with the script," as his brother Dini put it, Manotoc called a second press conference, only to announce that he would have nothing more to say. Friends said he was torn by conflicting ties to his family and his new wife, and under great emotional strain from his experience. Said a family intimate: "He's terrified." It appeared doubtful that Tommy and Imee could salvage their relationship. She did meet with him last week at Malacañang Palace, the presidential residence, where she has been living...
...each lived with their parents but continued to meet nearly every day. Since her husband disappeared, Imee is known to have done two things: she called Manotoc's lawyer and arranged for the return to the palace of her marriage certificate, and she phoned Manotoc's brother Dini to tell him that she had given one of Tommy's shirts to a psychic to meditate over. The psychic, she said, had declared he was well and with friends...