Hi! It's good to be back. I just want to share something fascinating today. I watched a Tagalog movie called The Last BeerGin. It's mid, the kind of film where you can easily follow it up with another movie and probably say that one's better. But despite that, there's something quietly charming about it that kept me watching. It starts with five strangers meeting at a convenience store, and what's funny is how their group was formed, from an inconvenience at a convenience store. Hahaha. "BeerGin" was spelled that way because the last stocks left of beer and gin, and they ended up fighting over them. From there, the story just casually unfolds..
It felt like a breath of fresh air. There's something about the pacing that made me sit through more than an hour without realizing it. Watching it felt like a Sunday afternoon you're eating meryenda with your family in the province, electric fan humming in the background, some people half-awake, others already deep into their siesta. That's exactly the vibe the movie gave me. Slow, warm, and quietly comforting.
And of course, it carries that familiar inuman vibe with friends. It's like you're one of them, sitting at the table, listening to each person open up one by one. No rush, no pressure just stories passed around like the bottle. You wait for your turn, your tagay, your moment to speak.
It made me realize that we all need that kind of "liquor conversation" what we call in tagalog "inuman session" (though now, I prefer coffee more… hahaha, age reveal?) The kind where you sit with great people, talk about life, and for a while, nothing else matters. No deadlines, no worries just the comfort of being heard.
That's when the realization hit me: somewhere, somehow, strangers are meeting for the first time, sharing their failures, frustrations, and problems while the tagay keeps going around like the world slowly spinning as the alcohol settles in. And in that exact moment, you forget everything weighing on your mind. You talk about it, and somehow it slowly fades in your system.
When I was younger, I never understood why people needed alcohol to forget, or to feel okay. But now I realize it's not really about the alcohol it's about the conversation, the pause, the shared silence between stories. The drink just becomes an excuse to open up.
Because when the inuman ends, just like the effect of alcohol… you eventually go back to reality. But somehow, it feels a little lighter. And maybe that's the whole point of the movie.
