Vivamax : Review of SANDWICH | Jao Daniel Elamparo
Title : Sandwich 2023
Stars : Katrina Dovey, Andrea Garcia, Nico Locco, Luke Selby
Directed : Jao Daniel Elamparo
A newly wed couple invites a woman for threesome. Unknown to them someone is watching their sexcapade. When the threesome becomes foursome, that’s when chaos begins.
Expat Edward (Luke Selby) and nurse Ria (Kat Dovey) have been married for three years. Edward already has a son Pippa (Lucas Matthey Francia) whom he left with his parents (Lee O'Brian and Kathy Mulville) in England. Edward and Ria are very active with their sex life, but they don't have children of their own yet. To add spice, they contact a girl Candice (Andrea Garcia) from the internet for a threesome experience.
In a neighboring condo, there lives a drug dealer Andrew (Nico Locco) who runs an illegal business with his friends (Sahil Khan and Michael Olusegon). This Andrew is a sex pervert who uses binoculars and a telescope to look into condo windows and spy on people engaging in sexual activity. When he peeps on Edward and Ria several times, Andrew becomes obsessed with Ria, and finds a way to relate to her.
This film was supposed to be made the day before the COVID-19 lockdown on March 17 2023. Even so, Edward and Ria still called the maid (Nina Castinlag) to clean the condo, hired a handyman (Chadd Solano) to fix the AC, and entertained guests including Edward's family and aunt. Ria (Regin Tolentino). No one wore masks at all, nor did they wear bunny outfits at Ria's hospital, unlike what actually happened those days.
As the story progresses, one wonders why writer Reynold Giba made a pandemic the setting for the film. In fact, after their guests leave, Edward and Ria have enough time to engage with the threesome, first with Candice, and then with Andrew, a total stranger to those who happen to be in their elevator. This story could have happened at any time. The pandemic is never very important to the plot literally, or even symbolically.
To fill the airtime between sex scenes, much time is spent on TV interviewees, such as a priest (Rene Durian) on the spiritual aspects of the pandemic, and a psychiatrist (Apollo Abraham) discussing the six differences. kind of relationship. I suspect many viewers will just fast-forward through long didactic scenes of random topics only tangentially related to the plot.
Kat Dovey and Luke Selby did quite well in their dramatic roles, much better than their previous appearances on Vivamax. Auteur Brillante Mendoza continues his recent trend of supervising new director projects. Jao Elamparo's direction is commendable on the technical side regarding DP Freidric Macapagal Cortez's camera work and Jake Abella's score. However, in telling the story, Elemparo's meaning is not clear, topics of conversation appear from nowhere and lead nowhere .
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