“Transit” is a one of a kind treat for Filipino moviegoers. Specifically, it proves that Filipino thespians can go the distance. The biggest laurel goes to the impeccable Irma Adlawan who delivered her lines in breathy and highly emotionally charged Hebrew. Perhaps we need a native Hebrew speaker to evaluate accurately the correct inflections of the Filipino actors, still, Irma’s Hebrew stood out among the cast members. You can sense that she is not just reciting her lines phonetically; she says them with enough potency as when she delivers her lines in Filipino. Considering she plays a Filipino who learns Hebrew at work, any mispronunciation is still within character. Perhaps, Adlawan is the closest we can get to a Filipino Meryl Streep. If Streep can play Thatcher, Adlawan can play Gloria Arroyo. Perhaps, the dawn of accents in Filipino acting is about to arrive, and Irma, beginning with her provincial accent in Jeffrey Jethurian’s “Tuhog,” is the first to open the door." brunphilippines.blogspot/2013/07/hannah-espias-transit-review-points-of.html
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 03:04:15 +0000
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