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The Whole Truth Explained

Trigger warning

SYNOPSIS:

When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents’ house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family. ( Wikipedia )

TRAILER:

PLOT: (With spoilers):

The story starts with two siblings who live with their mother, one is Pim the sister played by Sutatta Udomsilp and Put the brother who wears a leg brace by Nattapat Nimjirawat.

They show us that Put is with his classmate playing video games at home and when his sister comes home and goes to her room she catches the friend peeping in her room, when she goes to close the door the friend does not even look embarrassed or shows any shame.

The brother tries to tell him off but he shows him a video and threatens to release it, its later revealed that it was a video of Pim taking a bath at school.

Movie moves along and we see that the mother is injured in a car accident with a drunk driver.

The kids then have to live with their grandparents for a short period of time, but the old couple keeps acting weird. When the kids go to their house they see the hole in the wall, upon looking into it they see a really weird kid who is throwing up blood and the grandparents pretend there is no hole and ask the kids to stop with the pranks. The movie moves quite slow , the kids Putt and Pim notice more and more into the hole and it appears to be revealing them a version of their family's past, a scary little kid holding a little girl and a very drunk man slouched on the sofa.

A lot of things happen like the friend who had the video in his phone forget his phone at the place and Pim and Put finding it, the grandfather going to the cops to find out who was driving the car the night the mother met with an accident, not believing the cops when they tell him that the rich spoiled kid was not the driver, the grandfather going and killing him, the grandmother having panic attacks in the middle of the night and finally revealing that she too, can see the hole in the wall.

The mom is now out of coma and runs home to the kids once she finds out where they are, she looks scared and in a hurry. Now this is the only part of the movie that seems interesting where the (W) hole truth is revealed.

The mother Mai was married to Krit the guy that the kids saw earlier slouched on the sofa, Pinya the scary kid from the hole was their first born.

We see a flashback where the father Krit is drinking and the kid Pinya asks him if he wants to play hide and seek, he agrees and she goes hides in the small cupboard under the stairs, the father then passes out as he was drunk.

The rest of the family returns home and when they find Pinya in the cupboard they see that she drank the rat poison inside and was dead due to Krit's neglect.

This was the revelation, but the movie takes on the 2nd plot twist rule and we find out that Pinya didn’t die because of Krit, of course he was wrong to not handle his kid properly but it was the grandmother behind the killing, she keeps on giving milk to Pinya in which she would put a bit of poison and always treated her rudely. When Pinya had hidden in the cupboard, the grandmother was the one who had locked the cupboard from outside, and when Pinya was taken out, she had coughed blood and ended up dying there.

We see also see that the grandmother used to always force Put to drink the milk but never gave it to Pim. The grandmother had a problem with deformities running in their family. Pinya was born with physical defects, which caused her grandmother to despise her. The grandmother never considered Pinya a member of her family. She regarded Putt in the same light as her. Pim was the ideal match for her. She had wished for her grandchildren to be just like Pim. That is why she never had a problem with her and instead began serving poisoned milk to Putt every day.

Chaiyut the rich spoiled kid was really not driving the car, a revelation that is made to the grandfather in the end. It comes as a big shock to the grandfather, who had acted before knowing the whole truth.

In the end, we see that the grandfather starts to see Krit in his hallucinations and ends up killing his wife as he thinks its Krit, he realizes that his wife, he ends up killing himself.

she was the one who killed her husband, krit. And make it like it's his dad who killed him. U can see she took the gun from her father pocket and shoot him.

Review (with spoilers):

For starters, the horror on this movie is at least 3 out of 10 so for horror seekers looking for the screams and heart racing, this might not be your cup of tea.

If you just want a light horror to watch, I recommend this. This can be a good horror for a beginner. For me the story is decent enough for this to be worth the watch

The story is definitely a slow burn. A lot of scenes and the way they react to the things happening around them don't make sense. Acting is barely tolerable but still decent. If you watch it, you'll get what I mean.

It's not bad. The problem was the direction and how the storytelling is presented. It could have been better.

Speaking of the hole, every scene that presented the effects and styling was just ridiculous.

1. The sister was not worried at all about her videos getting leaked that doesn't happen in real world.

2. No one cared about brother's health throughout the movie.

3. No one went to search for missing cat but definitely they were worrying about it. (That makes no sense)

4. The children didn't even visit their sick mother in the hospital.

5. The pervert guy didn't even came looking for his lost phone and never appeared again in the movie again.

6. The grandparents were that easily forgiven or what was that?? They could have easily reveal the truth about their daughter being the killer but no that bad twist needs to be revealed at the end. For thrill, I guess.

What I liked on this movie though is that most of the questions about the main plot has been answered. I really like movies that gives me peace of mind after I watch them so it kind of get better for me towards the end. The revelations are just mind blowing. It was definitely unexpected.

Overall, way too long for a story like this. Some plotlines were not needed and did not bring much to the story at all. It had its moments, and I cannot say I dislike every minute of it, but these few scenes that were interesting were not worth watching the whole 2 hour movie.

The narrative talks about the two-faced reality of life. How it is always important to know the situation in its entirety and then only react to it. We have a habit of passing judgment even before we understand the situation completely. Sometimes, our actions are not retractable, and the damage caused is permanent in nature.

Hello, Love, Goodbye (Pinoy Movie)

Synopsis:

Joy is a spunky, down-on-her-luck millennial who works as a domestic helper in Hong Kong. She excels at her profession and enjoys the company of many other strong domestic servants, but she intends to leave the city shortly.

Joy encounters Filipino bartender Ethan on her way to attaining her ambitions. Ethan is a lovely playboy who has already established himself in Hong Kong. He will formally become a city resident in a few years. Ethan, who has spent his entire avoiding obligations, now wants to devote himself to a profession and his family (who also reside in Hong Kong). Joy and Ethan quickly become friends. Against the muck and grind of Hong Kong, the two become each other's joy.

Trailer:

Plot: (With spoilers)

The movie revolves around Joy played by the beautiful Kathryn Bernardo who leaves the Philippines to aim for a better life for her and her family back home. She works as a Domestic Helper but her dream is to become a licensed nurse and wants to go Canada and bring her family with her.

Ethan, played by Alden Richards, a Filipino Bartender in Hong Kong is someone who is carefree and is termed as a playboy by his friends.

Ethan starts to pursue Joy.

Joy's family background shows that Joy's Father had Joy's mother marry a guy from Hong Kong so she can later become a citizen and help the rest of her family come to Hong Kong. The guy who Joys mother is married to is abusive to her but Joys mother does not plan on leaving him anytime soon as she felt betrayed by Joys Father.

Joy has two siblings who rely on the money she sends home for their school and other expenses.

In Hong Kong Joy has two friends who are also domestic workers and all three of them are quite close. They sell items illegally as a side hustle to earn more money. In the start of the movie we see that Joy's cousin also comes to Hong Kong as a domestic worker.

Joy only has 4 more months left in her contract with her employer but her employer wants to fire her as she is having financial problems but when Joy tells her she is ready to work even at half salary her employer agrees.

With so much going on in her life Joy feels she doesn't have time for love but as Ethan keeps on pursuing her she eventually starts to fall for him.

Ethan's family background shows that his mother had died and his father came to Hong Kong became a bar owner and a resident of the country. During this time Ethan fell in love with a girl named Tanya. She wanted to move to US and Ethan left everything to move with her but soon she broke up with him and Ethan was deported from the states for over staying.

Ethan's brother Edward resented him for leaving his family and leaving all the responsibility on him.

Despite everything they both fall for each other but with Joy leaving for Canada will their love survive?

Review:

This movie was recommended to me by my filipin friend and co worker, and I loved it. The film is for when you want to watch a light yet meaningful romcom. It showcases the struggles of people who leave their home country for a better life and how they find love amongst all the chaos.

The story takes place in Hong Kong and the aesthetics make the movie even better. We see a young immigrant woman's struggle to follow her dream in a foreign country while supporting her family back home and carrying emotional burden of her family's issues.

A man trying to pickup and get his life back on track again, while everyone around him has moved ahead.

Both meet and fall in love, but what's next? Joy has to make a choice where she has to choose to stay with Ethan or get her dream job in Canada for the life she dreams of.

I love how it wasn't a typical kind of happy ending.

Love isn't about giving up something for someone else. Sacrifice entails the loss of something, whereas love does not. It's all about who you are at the end of the day.

Joy must convey this to Ethan, as well as the implications of not pursuing her dream, in all her wisdom. Ethan, thankfully, finally understands and is able to do what only love can: let go. Love stops being love the moment you try to cling on to it.

We're delivering a sharp and not-so-pleasant representation of life for many immigrants striving to survive. Some people are capable of doing so. Some are unable to do so like Joy's cousin who goes back to Philippines, admitting that this wasn't what she wanted.

As an international student in a foreign country this film made me feel seen, the lesson could be that you can only properly look after yourself and not lose sight of your own dreams if you take care of yourself.

If you persevere, you will have gained more profound wisdom about life than most people will ever have.

I will remember this film for a long long time as it interestingly walks down the complex lanes of lives, ambitions, frustration, failures and moreover fightbacks in a highly relatable manner. Looking forward to more such films from Asia.

Hope you enjoy the movie as much as I did!

Thanks to my friend for introducing this movie to me!