Sometimes I Feel Like Walking (Newfest Pride 2025) Review & Summary
Sometimes I Feel Like Walking may start off interesting, due to the assumed subject matter, but then it shifts in such a way that makes it feel like that initial hook was a Trojan Horse.
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“Some Nights I Feel Like Walking” Film Details
- Runtime: 1 Hour(s) and 43 Minutes
- Released On: Digital
- Public Release Date: May 29, 2025
- Director(s): Petersen Vargas
- Writer(s): Petersen Vargas
- Genre(s): Drama, Young Adult, LGBT+, Non-English (Tagalog)
- Rating: Not Rated
Summary
Initially, Some Nights I Feel Like Walking presents the idea that it is going to be about this group of young boys who are sex workers, with a strong focus on one named Uno (Jamari Angeles) and this kid named Zion (Miguel Odron). However, after a tragedy strikes within the group, gears shift towards getting one of their own back home and spreading the word of what happened—leading you to understand why these boys created their own chosen family rather than staying with blood relations or remaining in their initial communities.
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Review and Commentary
On The Fence
The Switch Up From Struggling Sex Workers To Trying To Get Their Friend Home [73/100]
Moving delicately when I say this, the shift early on when it comes to Sometimes I Feel Like Walking could take away your interest. Going from Zion making his way into sex work, with Uno becoming a mentor, to focusing on a member of Uno’s group who has to be taken home, can feel like they removed the initial hook of the film.
Note, this film isn’t set up like a Gaspar Noé film, so it was never tantalizing, even with the few sex scenes it did have. However, the challenges presented by trying to get that friend home don’t match or eclipse all the potential of what could have been. Be it seeing these guys try to make a living and sometimes struggle due to police, the people who procure their services, their relationships with one another, and more.
For with watching Zion, Uno, and their group make their way through the country, it creates a road trip that may lead to verbal confrontations, some background between Uno and one of his best friends, but certainly nothing that could sell the film if it removed what some may see as the initial hook.
Wishing You Got More Details About The Characters [74/100]
Part of why Sometimes I Feel Like Walking feels like it falls apart after it moves on from the sex worker storyline is that it doesn’t replace that with anything to be a notable hook. The characters, stripped of this one interesting facet of their lives, don’t replace that with other tidbits, notable personality traits, or stories to re-engage you.
Yes, as noted, Uno helps fill in Zion about how some of the relationships in the group formed, but because you know so little about the people Uno speaks of, the connection lacks meaning. Heck, even the reason the film shifts to being a road trip movie, the catalyst at the center of it all, doesn’t feel remarkable. Everything feels like a sense of duty, and the world shifting to fulfill an obligation.
That feeling of obligation can become what you essentially feel as you watch things play out, hoping for something more and believing beyond a sensational beginning, in the pursuit of depth, this film doesn’t end up drowning in itself. But, unfortunately, that is what it ultimately does.
Overall
Our Rating (73/100): Mixed (Divisive)
While Sometimes I Feel Like Walking opens with an intriguing premise rooted in the lives of young sex workers navigating survival and relationships, its sudden narrative shift into a road trip drama strips away the film’s most compelling hook without offering deeper character development to replace it. For with personal histories a little too vague and no sense of the film at least exploring each characters potentially complicated identity, struggles, and the community they find themselves in, the film ultimately falters ignoring almost any engaging aspect its characters, or the story, could offer.
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