The most daring is actually the first one, done on the stairway in her apartment. John James Uy asks her if she’s still a virgin. Instead of answering, she takes John’s hand and puts it inside her panties. This is a wild scene and it’s shown uncut. John removes her undies and we see her totally naked backside while John licks her. In fairness to Yam, it’s not only the seductive scenes that she does convincingly but even the dramatic scenes, considering this is just her first film.
The cinematography is excellent, even the scenes shot with a handheld camera that can sometimes be jarring. Director Erik Matti has come up with a very dark movie about losers and you can never guess where the story will take you, up to final scene where you think an assassin on a motorcycle would kill one of the characters.
John has a disconcerting accent in delivering his Tagalog lines but he does fine as the philandering husband who turns out to be involved with not just two but three women.
Max Eigenmann as the wife definitely delivers. She’s fat here but her being overweight suits the wife role persuasively. She definitely has a flair for finely nuanced acting as the frustrated pastry chef whose cupcake business is not prospering. Her sexy scenes are very tame compared to those of Yam, which is for the best since she has to shed off all those unwanted pounds first before she faces the camera again.
