Zoom In: Bedspacers

Bedspacers is a Joey Gosiengfiao film, who is also known for directing Temptation Island, Underage, Katorse, et cetera.

This late 70's movie is about college students who have different issues, such as dirt, sex, & money (sounds like a TV show, yeah?).

Alma, Rio, & Amy are bedspacers. Al, Mark, & Orestes are also bedspacers. But their boardinghouses are different, but are just facing each other. That's why when they need to flirt, it's merely a breathing distance to their place.

Alma is a prostitute; she does that to pay her tuitions. She is expelled by the school when Rio catch her having sex with a male student in a classroom.
Rio pretends to be a rich girl to chum up with the elites, especially with the male ones. The secret is revealed to Alma & Amy when her mother, played by Ms. Anita Linda, comes to their boardinghouse with two chickens & bundles of vegetables. Amy is a poor girl from a province; she is sent by her mother to study in U.E. because all their neighbor's children studied or are still studying in Manila. Amy's virginity disappears when Orestes makes love with her. She gets even pregnant and when Orestes is about to walk out the earth-because he is coward to face his responsibilities-she cries too hard, but her landlady brings her to an abortionist, played by the late Ms. Mary Walter, with a black suite and a black shades to match; and when she sees a sharp instrument that is about to put into her vagina, she runs away.
Orestes, as I said, makes Amy pregnant but he marries her in the end; but at the end of the film, both of them didn't graduate. Through Orestes , Al discovers that Alma was a prostitute.
Al is a brilliant student, in fact he always gets the highest scores on their exams. He is in love with Alma but, like what I said before, he is crestfallen when he knows that she is a bayarang babae. The love the he feels for her didn't stop him from accepting her (that's love, indeed).
Mark is also a poor student but her mother is doing everything for his-like always borrowing money fom others and selling their land- just for him to have a quality education (wish I had her). One time he came late in class that made his professor angry, then he defends himself and it is where his brilliance comes out; because of their argumentation, he has been warned that he might get failed (stressor no. 1). He is part of a stage play where a grouchy main cast, played by Ms. Laurice Guillen is included (stressor no. 2). When Mark is feeling tired, both mentally and physically, he talked to her directress, played by Deborah Sun, and gets a bolt of inspiration-through giving words of wisdom and through kissing. And through that, the play becomes successful. Mark continued to win Deborah's heart like by giving her three roses in the library, but the lady resists because she doesn't want to have an emotional problem (stressor no. 3). That's the time that the three stressors gather together enough to commit suicid; he jumps in a high building then dies.
The ending of the story is graduation.