These are the words that best describes Ayanna Misola’s character in Vivamax’s “Bula.”
Not that you’d actually realize this at first glance.
As the laundrywoman Meldie she is seemingly sweet, innocent.
But it’s actually a clever cover. Meldie is unhinged.
Every time she closes shop, she brings home the clothes of her customers.
There, she will put them on, trying to imagine what it feels like to be them, prior to doing the nooky with her bed-ridden husband.
It gets worse. Meldie would go as far as kill to fulfil the same desire.
As foundation, it is intriguing at most but film director Bobby Bonifacio, Jr. made it all more enticing forging “Bula” into a messy, strange, but ultimately, entertaining affair.
No doubt, “Bula,” like Meldie, is far from conventional. It is so many things at once.
Others might easily miss the whole point (that is, to get a grasp of where Meldie is coming from) but we would like to think that for them, it is all about seeing Ayanna, as with co-star Rob Guinto, naked.
Ayanna is quite proud of what she accomplished as actress in the film.
“Na-push talaga ang acting ko dito,” she told us.
Asked if she’s hoping to get an award for it, she laughed and said, “Sana!”
“Bula,” which also stars Mon Confiado, Gab Lagman, among others, is now streaming on Vivamax.
