The wonders and emotional troubles of being a perennial horror movie extra is on the flesh of Six Degrees of Separation From Lilia Cuntapay, a mockumentary experted by Antoinette Jadaone who seamlessly fades the fringes between fact and fiction. The faux-documentary follows Cuntapay, days before her first awards night. For all the years she appeared in horror movies, this is the first time she is nominated for an acting award. With improbable energy, she could have in reel and reality, she asks friends inside and outside of the industry for advice, buys a dress, and builds a list of names to add in her speech to win over the crowd. The obscure name-familiar face professional extra will eventually face all-bits tragic events that happen to people. Not as an extra, as a person.
Jadaone's understanding on the character reflects on the sumptuous execution. Cuntapay, playing the expert extra that she is, serves as the lead star and the subject matter of the film. She's a figure that was obscure, unthought-of, despite the contribution that she has given to Filipino horror. She was originally tapped for the first few Shake Rattle and Roll movies and put typecast to roles that range from a vengeful seance to a freaky creature. While Cuntapay shows no thirst for that kind of recognition, it's unjustifiable that she deserves some to this degree (creating a movie, her as the lead star and the subject matter). Jadaone, similarly, a UP Film Institute graduate, feels great malaise under pressure of the industry. She began making short films which I frankly liked, Saling Pusa being my favorite, but all feature deals were rejected, thudding her down to the grounds of television commercials. One professor told her after wrapping up a shoot for a Ferry company commercial, "Ang pangit ng ginawa mo! Wag ka na ulit gagawa ng ganun!" The joy and horror of being in the industry, Jadaone has faced, hence her sensitive execution for the pic that eventually sprung in bright colors.
On the flesh, one is entitled to assume that Six Degrees will come out as a derange adventure of a hustler movie add-on in an energetic fake-documentary. This is true, anyway. But fare to the core, and profundity says hello like an arty welcome signboard. Cuntapay's life as an extra is only a quarter of what's her facing, the fare of being a yearning mum, a dependable friend; and what strengths it takes to build a formidable soul. All these are toiled, with Cuntapay and Jadaone toiling to weave a story that amply immerses to the heart and drills to the stomach. Six Degrees of Separation From Lilia Cuntapay perfectly fathoms how to merge fact and fiction, while holding on to first-rate direction and entertaining humor. A+
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