ASOG
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ASOG : a powerful tale of survival amd overcoming adversity
The opening credits provide a warning, the actors in the film are real people who survived Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded. Also known as super typhoon Yolanda, this force of nature brought devastation, death, and sorrow to Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines in early November 2013. Years later the mourning is…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ASOG that follows Jaya non-binary teacher and typhoon survivor, on a roadtrip to fame in the Philippines.
For some people, the description of this movie will read like a nonprofit funding application. It covers climate change, colonialism, poverty, and trans issues. It ticks a lot of progressive boxes. And that would be to completely miss that it is also an irreverent, and sometimes very beautiful mix of magical realism storytelling and…
