#mmff 2017

Deadma Walking  Julius Alfonso 

Ang dami ko na ring nabasang mga kuda tungkol dito sa Deadma Walking, na nakakatawa nga raw tapos nakakaiyak eme. Pinanuod ko yung trailer, at tungkol nga to sa pagkakaibigan. Pucha. Hahaha. Kaya niyaya namin mga friends namin para sama samang magtawanan. At ayun! Pucha! Ang dami naming tawa besh! HAHAHAH! 

Napanuod ko si Joross sa I Love You Thank You sobrang elibs ako sakanya dun kasi ang galing niyang maging bakla. Haha. Tapos si EA hindi ko pa yata siya napapanuod na bakla ang role sa movie, pero alam kong magaling siya. Shet. Hindi ako binigo. Hahaha! Kung hindi ko sila kilala, iisipin ko talagang totoong mga bakla ‘tong mga 'to. 

Nasa trailer naman na ang mga dapat mong malaman tungkol sa plot. Haha. May sakit si Joross, nagset-up ng pekeng lamay at laughtrip ang linayahan. Pero besh, hindi naman namin inexpect na nakakaiyak din pala 'to. Haha. Actually, hindi ako naiyak dahil sa friendship nila. Naiyak ako sa eksena ni Dimples saka ni Joross. Ang galing dun ni Dimples ha. Huhu. Ewan ko. Pero ang dami kong iyak dun. Pucha. Solid ng eksena na yon besh! Hindi ko kinaya. Pag tingin ko sa mga katabi ko saka sa likod ko, nagiiyakan na rin mga kaibigan namin. HAHAHAHAHA! Sabay magtuturuan, hala! Umiiyak siya!! HAHAHAHHA! 

Gusto ko rin yung mga pamusical eme nila. Crying Divas! HAHAHAHA! Wala lang, nagenjoy din ako dun. Infairness. Saka yung scoring. Ukininam! HAHAHA! Saka yung PD nila, grabe. Yung PD sa kasal kay kamatayan! Pucha!!! Solid!! Saka alam mo yung, hindi pilit yung mga punch lines. Hahahahaha. Tangina talaga. Yung nagmemessage mga tao sa lamay ni Joross. Pucha. SOBRANG TAWANG TAWA AKO KAY SUE OKAY. Hindi ko alam. Pero ang ganda ng pagkakadeliver. Basta lahat pucha! Sobrang laughtrip!!! 

Sobrang solid din nung screenplay besh. Lalo na dun sa part na pinaplano nila kung paano ang magiging ganap sa lamay. Grabe yon! Sobrang solid non!!! Tapos ang dami daming nagcameo!!!! Ang ganda nung French Film ni Eugene Domingo don!!! Yung Sauna moment ni Joross at EA. Yung ang daming kuda ni EA tapos biglang….. tangina! Galing! 

Actually hanggang ngayon, tawang tawa pa rin ako habang naaalala ko yung mga eksena. HAhahaha. Yung natatapakan buhok ni EA. Yung pinakilala ni EA si Vin kay Joross tapos iba yung ishashake hands ni Joross. HAHAHAHA. Pucha. Pero wala pa rin talagang tatalo sa kuda ni Sue sa lamay! HAHAHHAHA! Kingina non! 

Although nanghula ako kung sinong unang mamamatay, okay lang. Hahaha! Kasi ang ganda pa rin talaga eh. Walang wala yung Siargao. Hahaha. Sorry ah. Pero mas naenjoy ko tong film na 'to. Saktong bigat lang. Saka nakakainspire kasi yung friendship nila. Sobrang solido! 

Basta. Ang galing galing ni EA at Joross dito! 

“You can’t talk. Don’t talk. You can never talk.” -EA  “2017 na. Uso na ang hashtag move on! Try mo kayang makiuso.” - EA 

Naglilinger sakin yung boses ni EA habang tinatype ko yan! HAHAHAHHA! Pucha talaga. Yung mga wasak moments ni EA. Grabe rin. Hahahah! Bat ganun, nakakatawa pa rin kahit wasak siya. Hahahaha. BASTA PUCHA. 

ANG GANDA GANDA NG DEADMA WALKING. 

Favorite film ko 'to ngayong MMFF! HAHAHAHAHA! 

Hanggang sa susunod ng MMFF! 

Alright, if you’ve been following me in my twitter account you probably know how I’ve been rambling about this film since I heard about it. For one, I’m such a beach freak; and also Siargao is in Mindanao - come on, Manileños always think about Mindanao as a place with war and how dangerous it is to come here. But hello? 

So yeah, I promised myself not to watch any other film for MMFF 2017 but Siargao. Luckily, Robinsons Iligan (yes, we do have a mall here also) decided to show the film. I was so determined to watch it even if I have to do it alone (which I haven’t done really), and I was ready for that challenge. Good thing my old dorm mates came home for the holidays and agreed to watch it with me. (Yaay!)

First movie of the year, I guess I’m starting 2018 with good decisions. Lol

Anyway, a friend told me I’d be crying my heart out watching this film and that my (love) life resembles that of Abi’s (Jasmine Curtis-Smith) and that I can also be Laura (Erich) since I take videos so much. But she didn’t mention about Diego’s (Jericho) character in the movie. 

The issues of each characters in the film were confusing and real, the struggles they have to face are because of decisions they made in the past, and if I’m not mistaken, decisions that they’d like to change, decisions they regret, and would like to “reset” (they used the word reset in the movie quite a lot).  But to my surprise, I did not cry. I am usually such a cry baby when it comes to films like this, but I didn’t.

I won’t be talking about how the cinematography was, or how the actors performance were because I don’t have the right to, I mean where am I going to base my opinion on? However, I’m going to talk about how the movie affected me, as a person, as someone who also has her issues; someone who is also confused, and someone who just came back home.

Laura was scared of moving forward with her life that she turned down a wedding proposal from someone she loves. Abi was scared to move out of her comfort zone. Diego was scared to get stuck, thus he left to reach his dreams, but eventually returned home. Three characters all wanting to move forward from their mistakes, met in a wonderful island, and the story goes.

It’s secretly implying on giving yourself another chance to redeem it. It’s low-key telling us that we can still redo things, make it better; decide and stand for what we really want. People relate so much with Laura and Abi’s stories but I am Diego in the film. I was just in that point of my life last year where I chased for what I wanted, I got there, I got in trouble, and I decided to come home (to come to love again? haha that I do not know). His character had so much going on that I think they forgot to explain what happened between him and his father. That is really something I would like to understand. But to talk about self reinvention, I liked how Laura didn’t opt to use Diego to cover her true feelings, I liked how Laura was so honest and how she and Diego remained friends. Oh yeah, they did use each other at one point, but they used each other to deeply understand what they really want in life and ended up helping each other eventually. 

Somehow, it’s telling us that home is really where the heart is. And that no matter where we wander, we will always go back to the arms of people who mean so much to us. 

PS - the movie shows how beautiful Siargao is, and it also showed some more beauty of Surigao at one point when Laura decided to travel more alone. I’ll definitely be visiting the island.

I’m leaving you with some lines in the film which I got from Siargao the Movie’s official Facebook Page: