February 27, 2023
Eba (Azi Acosta) is the new, exciting dancer of her strip club Kalaguyo, the most popular among the customers. The club manager Mommy Girlie (Gwen Garci) announces that Eba is the new queen, much to the annoyance of Marga (Alona Navarro), who was the former star when she started four years ago. Eba had a regular customer, the wealthy vlogger Max (Jiad Arroyo), who always reserved her for the VIP room to receive her special "services."
Adan (John Flores) is the new, exciting star dancer of his strip club Machismo, the most popular among the customers. His club manager Mama Chandra (Chad Kinis) pushes Adan's services to the club patrons, especially the rich OFW gays. Adan was a generous person to others in the club and even outside. He took it upon himself to help three street boy beggars by giving them food and money, because they were orphans like himself.
Azi Acosta proved that she certainly knew how to turn on the waterworks in her dramatic scenes. However with her sad eyes, she did not exactly project confidence and stage presence befitting a new "queen of the club." With his chinito looks, John Flores looked like an actor you'd see in a Korean drama, setting him apart from other Vivamax studs. He had a confident and easygoing natural acting style, despite this being his lead role.
Stories about strip dancers and prostitutes, both female and male, have already been common subjects in various films, especially on Vivamax. However, the prostitutes of Alexander Langitan's "Suki" broke the usual norm of other film prostitutes, because they seemed to be less tight with their cash.
Something new here that I had not seen before was that there were prostitutes who still have the time, money and energy to actually hire the services of another prostitute. Here, Eba would often visit his club and reserve Adan for his VIP room talents. Even Marga would go to that club and try to book Adan to get back at Eba for stealing her spotlight.
Also, instead of squeezing in makeshift shacks in squatter areas, the prostitutes of "Suki" lived comfortably. Eba and her roommate rented a two-story house where they had separate rooms. When Eba agreed to Adan's proposal to live together with him, he brought her to live in an posh-looking house in a nice-looking neighborhood.
However, the other issues tackled here were hackneyed and rehashed. Aside from supporting her younger siblings, Eba also supported her mother Susan (Yda Manzano), a prostitute past her prime, who was also a drug addict. The rivalry issue between the new star Eba and the old star Marga is very old hat, and the film knew it. It even dared to recreate that classic "copycat" scene from "Bituing Walang Ningning" to prove it. 3/10.
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