So when she’s raped by a creep at work, she’s not just ready to snap. Not delivering what she promised is a pretty serious breach of cinematic trust.Ī downtrodden, working-poor department store clerk ( Janine Gutierrez), bullied by her boss, harassed by the Boys on the Corner on her way home every night, threatened by her slumlord, rudely dismissed by the convenience kiosk owner closest to her flat, overhears a shooting down the street.
Writer-director Rae Red (“Neomanila” was hers) sets us up for a female revenge fantasy.
Netflix is calling the film “The Girl and the Gun.” But the Filipino title is “Babae at Baril,” which my translator says is “Women and Guns.”Įither way, you get the idea.
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