Astig (2009) DVDRip XViD

As an expectant father, Boy, played by Edgar Allan Guzman, reluctantly engages in prostitution to pay for his wife’s hospital bills. Guzman delivers a memorable performance in two critical scenes: when he hesitantly succumbs to the dark side of the flesh trade, and when he first sees his newborn in the hospital bed beside his wife. In the hospital scene, Guzman effectively showed his character’s internal conflict when he intently looks at the baby and tears, borne of happiness and shame, rolled down his cheeks. In that scene, his character is both rescued and ruined.

Ronald, played by Arnold Reyes, is a Chinese mestizo from Zamboanga who goes to Manila to sell his inheritance: an abandoned building in Escolta. Reyes gives an adequate performance as a man who longs to move on from his dead father’s shadow. But his tale is a sad one because something happens that brings him to insanity.