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Wild Little Love (2019)
Wild and New Take on Love and Money.
Wild Little Love were one of the films by Director Benedict Mique, together with ML, Momol Nights and Two Love You. It features one of ABSCBN's "The Gold Squad" love teams. At first look, Wild Little Love is just your typical teen romance comedy with nothing but tweetums and hyped up conversations to afloat the story, but watching it you are definitely in for a wild surprise!
The love story of Jake and Sam is the center of the film, as they fell in love, layers of ideas were conveyed, although the scenes were too leading to what is next, what makes it special is a well-crafted script, it was mind blowing, of how an over-used backbone could be so fresh and vibrant! it was the weapon of the movie.
The performance of the teen actors who played Jake(Seth Fedelin) and Sam(Andrea Brillantes) were impressive for a first movie team up. They were both successful in giving' their characters depth and fortitude, their scenes and delivery are what memorable movies are made of.
Wild Little Love is not little, it has substance that would feed both the hearts and minds of the target audience. Its a pleasant, enjoyable and clever movie.
Silly Red Shoes (2019)
Fantasy and Family
Silly Red Shoes is the second movie of a new budding Director James Mayo after Ogie Alcasid's Kuya Wes. Director Mayo succeeded in giving his audiences the right mood in these two films. Silly Red Shoes anchors its story on a fairytale, mirroring the reality on the life of its lead star Ashley (Francine Diaz) and her old time classmate, Chuck (Kyle Echarri). It is also iwant's anniversary offering featuring the love teams of ABS CBN's " The Gold Squad"
The cinematography was breathtaking, it was useful to make you feel the culture and the vibes of the setting, and its fantasy mood! , however, for this movie it could have been adjusted for a more youthful feel, since teen stars were the lead and the majority of the target audience.
The story was very simple and direct to the point! Family stories like what has been depicted was not new but it was the performance of Mayor Herbert Bautista who made it beautiful. It was too palpable that Chuck and Ashley's love story took a back seat. It could have been more developed for the two teen actors a chance to promote their loveteam, as there were segments that are drudging and could have been used to move Chuck and Ashley's story forward.
Despite of it lacking climactic scenes, Silly Red Shoes is the right film for you if you want to step into the right amount of family stories and fantasy!
In Your Eyes (2010)
Love and Drama
The movie In Your eyes debuted in 2010 showcased the works of Director Mac C. Alejandre and writer Keiko Aquino. Shot in between Manila, Philippines and Orange County, California, In Your Eyes is a decent melo-dramatic, romance movie.
Since sisters Ciara and Julia lose their parents they grew closer with each other, and have the same American dream. Ciara having an intelligent, conservative and sort of perfectionist nature works hard for Julia with a price of sacrificing her own happiness and life. On the other hand Julia, smart but dependent to her sister, and while having a carefree lifestyle falls easily in love with Storm, a guy who has great sexual appeal.
Julia went to America to be safe with her "Ate", drags along her boyfriend. Storm, while in America cannot find a decent job without being discriminated. Storm wanted to go back to his country, Julia, was afraid to lose him, and arranged Storm with a marriage with her sister Ciara, for Storm to be an America citizen himself. Ciara thinking it was another sacrificial thing for her sister agrees to marry Storm. To cut it short, Storm and Ciara, pushed in an awkward situation, falls in love with each other leaving Julia devastated to her sister.
In your eyes' controversial points on visa and citizenship were not properly accounted for; the story has loop holes leaving you with several important questions. The director leans more to the romantic drama side of the story. The journey of the heart of the three central characters was the ball the film had followed. On that account, the film does not disappoint, the film escalates as the emotions of the characters escalates.
No matter how unpolished the film was, the performance of the lead actress who plays Ciara (Claudine Barretto) was commendable giving a strong hold for the film's wavering backbone and pushing its scores up. She was driven, generous, caught off guard, disappointed, hopeful and sacrificial all expressed delicately on her eyes. She has not achieved that without the supporting performances of the actress who played Julia (Ann Curtis) thou at times too much, she was still out of the box and exciting. One performance who does not help in bringing out the best of the film was the actor who plays Storm (Richard Gutierrez), who acted blunt, thank God for his good looks who luckily, says it all for the character.
Check this not-so-long ago film who is still worth it if you want a sentimental afternoon with popcorns.
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Storytelling at its Best
Director David O. Russel did a new, refreshing and coherent way to tell a rom-com story. From it's gripping but quirky scenes, so fast and fluid, Silver Linings Playbook will glue you to your seat forgetting that it runs for 2 hours, thou, it has hardly nothing but conversations. The film does not showcase good cinematography, effects, musical score, it has nothing fancy but still manages to be charming. The characters portrayed are somehow similar but not identical giving the film a swirl spectrum of dynamics. The film carries a heartfelt story even made better by the performances of actors,Bradley Cooper,Jennifer Lawrence and Robert de Niro, whose skills can carry multi-layered characters. Silver Linings Playbook is an intelligent film, worthy to be watched and awarded.