‘TAKBO’ is a short experimental film that studies the realities by which young Filipino women live.
This is how people feel on fridays. This is how people cover their somber minds with invisible curtains. This is what lies behind.
The restlessness creeps into a claustrophobic situation where a typist confronts the recorded voice of the writer she works for.
Hunter, a bride-to-be, feels overworked and unappreciated. Her artistic spirit is squelched by the shallow corporate world she’s in and she has had enough. Unfortunately, she feels as if she can’t turn to Ian, her commercial executive fiancé, for solace. As her wedding day approaches, Hunter and her three bridesmaids embark on a road trip to Las Vegas for one last hoorah together. As the girls venture from the city, they decompress and let their personal barriers fall. An impromptu sightseeing excursion into the desert leads to a clash of anxieties and attitudes between Hunter, the bridesmaids, and her fiancé as Hunter searches for the road that’s right for her.
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