If you happen to visit Haight Place at Atok, Benguet. You will not be shocked with the family's history because stuff like this happened 120 years ago.
I'm not sure that the Filipina shared the same attraction as that of the soldier. Not only on this scene. There was a scene where she came to his post with food. She told him "maybe you really are a ghost" a sign that she never saw him as among men, she had doubts if he was human. Iimmediately before he asked "is that why you are here?" She saw an insurgent sneaking out but never said anything to the young soldier about what she saw. was it a ploy to distract him from his guard duty? When the soldier was carrying a bucket of water for water torture their eyes met but her facial expression was not that of someone enamored ; she showed contempt
I mean later in the movie when the American soldier was crippled she did cameback and brought food for him in his medical tent she had no reason to go there but she did
This reminds me of the movie La Lengua De las Mariposas. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fXVxLMKQ_Nc.html. So many similarities between these two movies. Rosa (wife and mother in La Lengua de las Mariposas) and Corazon ( wife and mother in Amigo) were both very religious . In La Lengua de las Mariposas the setting was in Spain in 1936, civil war was about to begin and near the end of the movie, the family had to take sides. They took the safe side in order to avoid the wrath of Franco even though the father was a Republican. There was an inter-racial romance in the movie that reminds me of this scene. Unlike in this movie, the teenage son in La Lengua never said "you know you're pretty for you know one of you". Instead he said "The most beautiful are Chinese women. When I get older I will go to China to marry a Chinese woman" So even before he met the Chinese girl he had already idealized her kind. When he met her (he was a band member assigned to play saxophone in a far away town) he told his younger brother who was accompanying him "See that's the Chinese girl I saw in the book". They learned that the girl was mute and was being abused as a child bride. It's a long story on how she wound up mute and child bride. So I'll skip that. In the next scene He was playing saxophone for the fiesta with an attitude like "meh I'll just go with the motion" but then his little brother tugged his pants to point out the Chinese girl who was watching and listening to him (She could hear and understand but could not speak). Immediately as if by force and passion he could not control, he played the best saxophone ever. With the meeting of their eyes as he played the saxophone , he was telling her that he was in love with her. The Chinese girl's very old husband came and pulled her away. As she was being pulled away she kept looking back at the teenage boy. My eyes welled up , sad for the two teenage lovers. At the same time I wanted to pinch the little brother's cheeks because he was so cute. The following morning in the band's bus on their way back home the teenage boy told his little brother how he saw forever with her "She took my hand hand we escaped to the mountains, he (grandpa husband) followed us with a knife but we reached Coruña and jumped onboard the ship bound for China." As he was telling him about his and the child bride's elopement the little brother saw the Chinese girl on the side of the road. She was waiting there so she could wave goodbye. The little brother said look, pointing out to the Chinese girl waving goodbye. The teenage boy looked at her and he cried probably because he knew that they could never be together. In effect the love story in La Lengua de Las Mariposas was true love, the movie showed it so.
The film is ambiguous if she was attracted to him. I'm not sure that the Filipina shared the same attraction as that of the soldier. Not only on this scene. There was a scene where she came to his post with food. She told him "maybe you really are a ghost" a sign that she never saw him as among men, she had doubts if he was human. immediately before he asked her "is that why you are here?" She saw an insurgent sneaking out but never said anything to the young soldier about what she saw. was it a ploy to distract him from his guard duty? When the soldier was carrying a bucket of water for water torture their eyes met but her facial expression was not that of someone enamored ; she showed contempt
