"Experience" (1984)
Regal Films
Release Date November 2, 1984
Screenplay Jose Lacaba, Roy Iglesias
Cinematography Conrado Baltazar
Editing Rogelio Salvador
Music Willy Yusi
Direction Lino Brocka
Cast Snooky, Miguel Rodriguez/ Introducing Samuel Valero/ Also Starring Raoul Aragonn, Mila Ocampo, Romeo Rivera, Rudy Meyer, Bobbi Mercado
Synopsis: Jing- Jing Ledesma (Snooky) and Froilan Navarro (Miguel Rodriguez) are reel and real-life lovers. As movie stars, they are exposed to the intrigues of movie reporters who are forever inventing juicy items in order to promote movies. Froilan is being linked with Marita Ayala, who will be the third party of a love triangle in the duo‘s next film.
Though he denies it, Jing-Jing is being affected by it and has become jealous.
Jing-Jing has her problems. Her parents are separated. Her mother has a boyfriend, Gino (Mon Godiz), who stays with them. Her father lives elsewhere--- with his girlfriend. From time to time, Jing-Jing stays with her aunt Felisa (Estrella Kuenzler) when she cannot stand the behavior of her mother.
Other than this, Jing-Jing has another occupational hazard. She is being tailed by a persistent fan. Everywhere she goes, he does not fail to appear at a distance. She finally confronts him and learns that his name is Rodrigo Blanco (Samuel Valero). He makes macrame and lives in a room with two others. His walls are plastered with her photos.
The name is familiar to Jing-Jing and she looks in her album of clippings. When she was a child star, there was a drunk who used to slash the faces of children. She was one of the victims and has a small scar on her face. The man’s name is Rene Blanco, who has been imprisoned for several years now.
Jing-Jing decides to visit her attacker. He is now reformed and blesses the Lord for having discovered Him. He admits to having a brother by the name of Rodrigo. His mother, however, has languished in an insane asylum when she learned of his imprisonment.
Every time he now appears, Rodrigo Blanco behaves like a psychopath. He bashes the taillights of her car. One night, he kills her aunt Felisa and strangles her alalay. Froilan is hit in the head. Rodrigo announces his intention as revenge ---for the incarceration of his brother and the confinement of his mother.
Jing-Jing tries to escape in her car. He chases her in his motorcycle which swerves off the road and explodes. Jing-Jing reaches her mother’s house and thinks she is safe. But Rodrigo has survived the crash and has taken someone else’s car. He stalks her house and cuts the electricity.
Jing-Jing makes a dash for her car but he jumps on the hood. He falls off as she is maneuvering the vehicle. She rams his body against the wall until it is lifeless. Jing-Jing is hysterical and repeatedly runs over his body until the police arrive.
(Source: Lino Brocka: The Artist and His Times)
Original theatrical poster of Brocka's "Experience" (1984)
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