Yesterday, my friend and I went to see a movie.
Am not dying to see that movie (I did not mark my calendar nor set an alarm/reminder on my phone for this one hehe), but let me just say am curious about the story.
The way the singer cum actress will do: if she’ll be at par with the other actresses; if this movie will be a “good” one – not the one wherein I can predict the ending of the story or the typical teeny-bopper thing that makes the high school girls drool and have the “kilig” moments with their girlfriends…
It’s a Filipino movie titled “A Very Special Love” starring John Lloyd Cruz and Sarah Geronimo.
This is the first time that I’ll be watching a Tagalog movie here in Doha and it made me feel at home:
There are so many Filipinos who came to watch it (hehe there’s no proof that we, Filipinos, are avid movie-goers)…
The cinema here made me feel like am just in Shangri La or Robinson’s Galleria…
The movie started at 5PM.
We took our reserved seats in the left, front row, started to munch on the almost half-filled popcorn tumbler and wished that the movie will be better than what we had expected…
And it is better indeed…
I’ve seen a lot of movies, the romantic-comedy, tear-jerkers (I like this one), the one with heavy drama on the side, etc.
And I can say that this movie is ok, and if I’m going to rate it from 1 to 5, 5 being the highest, I’ll give it a 4.
The story goes like this:
The guy (played by John Lloyd) is a member of a rich clan, but being the child in the 2nd wife, after his mom died, he felt that nobody in this world loves him; appreciates what he’s doing, etc. so he put most of his time at work which happened to be a publishing company of a men’s magazine which according to him sells “sex”.
The girl (Sarah Geronimo) is a bubbly girl, who has a big crush on the guy.
It just so happened that there’s an available job (Editorial Assistant in the guy’s office).
The girl applied for the job and got it, so the two of them are working hand in hand…
They ended up together…
I’ll not deal with the Ws (what happened between the two, why) just see it for yourselves (it’s a nice one, really hehe)…
This movie is one of those wherein you’ll learn a lot about love and life if you’ll take a look at it aside from having a mushy theme song and corny love story.
Here are some of those:
“I believe in goodness…”
It’s good to be an optimist… to view things positively…
Believe me, you’ll feel happier, lighter and fulfilled…
We will meet too many people in our lives; there are those who would pull you down; there those who would you along and those who would pull you up…
For those who pull, pulled or will pull you down, just bear in mind that there’s goodness deep down their hearts…
May God bless them still.
"Something has changed and the change came out as a surprise…”
As the cliché goes, the only constant thing in this life is change.
Change is inevitable.
Change is good and most of the time; it comes out as a surprise…
We must expect the unexpected and the worst things that could happen, so we won’t be surprised after all.
“Pag nagmahal ka, dapat bukas ang mga mata…(If you fall in love, make sure that your eyes are wide-open)”
According to my former team lead, when you love someone, and he did something that you deem wrong, you should not hesitate to correct him.
You should also accept the fact that he commits mistakes, and do not justify his wrong doings just to make it right and convince yourself as well as others, that he is or whatever that he had done or is doing is right.
"A Very Special Love”
In the movie, there was point wherein the guy confronted the girl…
He said that he never asked the girl to love him…and I think he missed the point of being in-love.
It’s the girl who loves him so much and exerts the most efforts.
I can say that the girl is the “martir na umaasa” type (she’s holding on to her hopes that time will come that the guy will notice and love her) and that is one of the smallest things that love or being in-love can do and it happens in real life.
There’s a perception that the true sense of love is that you love and you are loved in return.
This is maybe what we have in theory, but in reality, not all of those who give their all are loved; not all feelings are given back; and in a relationship, there will be someone who works harder to keep the relationship going.
There will always be someone or some people whom you cannot forget, whom you’ll say you had given or are giving a very special love… (Hmmm…reminds me of “The One That Got Away” by Mark Macapagal)
It’s not only with the opposite sex.
It maybe a mentor, a colleague, a long lost friend, beloved family members, a relative, a stranger or it even a fellow beside you during the lowest point of your life.
Whatever our experiences in life, and in love, be it good, as if like you’re on seventh heaven or bad, as if you’re jinxed, we’ll learn the lesson.
We’ll realize that we had grown up and matured because of these experiences…
We’ll realize that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger…
And to top it all, the biggest lessons in life are learned the hard way…
P.S.
This article was written last August 29, 2008.
No comments:
Post a Comment