I went to see the independent film 100 with a friend. I was (as it is turning out these days) yet again a kaladkarin. The movie stars Mylene Dizon and Eugene Domingo, Filipina actors who have a string of good films under their belt.
The film is about dying. Cancer. Everyone seems to be dying from it these days. Mylene plays Joyce, and Eugene is Joyce’s childhood friend, Ruby. It’s Joyce who is stricken with the disease. In her last months, she makes a list of things she wants to do bucket list style, only more down to earth. Real. Cleans up her house. Organizes her photo albums; finds Pinky, the ugly toy she’s alwas liked as a child. Quits from her job. Travels. Eats. Eats and eats. Like there’s no tomorrow. Well, there isn’t, really.
It’s a good film. Go see it. Count on me. Count on my good taste.
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There’s this other movie. My roommate and I did not intend to watch it. We happened to pass by the cinema and she’d seen a trailer of it somewhere. She said Let’s go see it and I went but we have to buy your sister a dress. Turns out everything had been taken care of and I thought what the hell are we here for then? So I ended up in an SM theater watching The Day the Earth Stood Still. It stars Keanu Reeves.
My impressions? Keanu’s grown old. He’s got wrinkly skin now. Quite different from the Keanu of Speed. I watched that film like a thousand years ago. I must be getting old. Anyway, it’s a good film, too. I haven’t seen a decent Hollywood film in a while, made me feel good about the 146 bucks I spent on it. Worth every peso, I tell you. Good film, really.
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Good film. Simple plot (You can never go wrong). Mysterious sphere lands in Central Park (Why there of all places?). Everyone thought it was an asteroid and prepared for the aftermath. I thought it was another blow up Manhattan kind of movie. Turned out not. After the huge sphere lands, out goes an alien. They shoot it. OF COURSE. Count on the Americans to shoot anyone an alien. You have invaded our airspace, crippled our defense systems, therefore, you are hostile and a threat to national security. Shoot the thing. Shoot the unknown. Shoot. Shoot. Shoot. So they shot the damn thing. Then the scientists take charge. They operate on it. Voila! to their surprise the alien is human (wearing a bio-organic spacesuit). Or at least, the alien is in human form. He speaks of all things, ENGLISH. How convenient. He has come to save the earth says Keanu Reeves the alien. Let me give you a hint: Save the Earth from what/whom? That’s the question to ask. Now, go see it.
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