Watch [18+] Expensive Candy (2022) Hindi Dubbed HD

Expensive Candy 2022 Movie – Storyline :

Candy is a sex worker. A poor teacher, Toto (Carlo Aquino), falls in love with her and she becomes his motivation to work hard.

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I bring these up because these ideas seem to serve as the backdrop for Julia Barretto’s character, Candy, in Jason Paul Laxamana’s (100 Tula Para kay Stella, He Who Is Without Sin) latest film. The film’s handling of poverty and class, which is intertwined with its view of sex work, also leaves a lot to be desired. Toto is the embodiment of someone who reifies a hierarchy of work, “with domestic work seen as virtuous and sex work as stigmatizing.” And if the film actually examined this position, and how the structures in Philippine religion and culture likely motivate this kind of thinking, then maybe we would have better understood Barretto’s character in conjunction with these constraints.

Candy asserts time and time again that sex work is her choice. She sees value in her labor and how she negotiates her body, saying that “tumaas ang sarili kong halaga (my self-worth increased)” when referring to the amount of money she gets from clients. Her work is influenced by her past socioeconomic conditions, with Candy being unwilling to trudge the same monotonous path as her poor family. Yet, even with all of these declarations of agency, Candy seems dissatisfied, or at least the acting and filmmaking want to make it look that way.