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Here we are again with hyped Filipino movies that give us false expectation about relationship and love: about a broken hearted girl and a desperate slash also broken hearted guy that accidentally meet and unsurprisingly ended up together. Yup, I’m talking about the movie That Thing Called Tadhana.
Besides the very cheesy title, the movie is all about how to get over someone who broke your heart thru WOWs (Words of Wisdoms) and by looking for someone else as a ‘panakip butas’.
We are lured to the practically-impractical and obvious reasons about the Why’s and the How’s about an ended relationship that we people (admit it or not) most of the times dodge the reality because we are too ‘tanga’, ‘bobo’ and all the cliché pitiful descriptions you can have for your crying, broken hearted self.
People are so into the ‘hugot’ lines that they neglect some facts:
1.) You don’t bump into someone after you’ve been dumped accidentally.
2.) BUT If you ‘accidentally’ bumped into someone after you’ve been dumped, and goes with you wherever you want to go, especially and MOST ESPECIALLY when you’re a pretty girl with a voluptuous body… Guuurl, he’a either a rapist or a serial killer.
3.) No one in their right mind who would go with someone they barely know who is purposefully too silent, looks at you creepily and shows you his tattoos.
4.) A stranger freaks out when you make scandalous acts in public. Strangely, Anthony (JM de Guzman) didn’t because fuck Philippine cinema logic.
5.) If you’re with a guy after you’ve been dumped; two days is too long not to bang each other.
6.) With No. 5 being said, you get drunk and ‘forgets’ what you did last night because you were drinking faux Red Horse and singing a Whitney Houston hit wrongly PLUS you’re with a guy you just met; you don’t go to Baguio… SOGO motel is enough.
7.) Adding to no.’s 5 and 6, Mace (Angelica Panganiban) passed out from being drunk… Why did people expect for Anthony to still take her to Baguio? In real life, girls always end up in an empty lot… Naked… And/Or dead.
8.) That game where everytime she mentions her ex, she would give P100.00… with that kind of personality Mace (Angelica Panganiban) has; she would give a million.
9.) You won’t have any stranger-crying-shoulder because they’ll freak out.
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Those trending hashtag hugot lines, (I prefer #WhoGoat) that seemingly nonsensical to those who are not emotional or those who are not in love or those who are too chaka to experience being in a relationship; have been all over my Facebook, Twitter and even in Instagram timelines.
Although this movie seems ridiculous, to say the least, but reality is we just needed someone to share our problems with. We fantasize that there’s someone else to help us up when we’re down and broken and probably fall in love with them… The question popping in my mind on why it’s famous and highly acclaimed it’s because it’s a slap/wake up call (kuno) to people who don’t want to face the reality; who lives a life where they just ignore the truth, living with a lie and relive ONLY the happy moments. That’s why people can ‘relate’ because it’s the first time in Philippine cinematic history that words are real and an eye opener that’s far away from the typical Filipino Jolina-Marvin movies, even to be honest, people already know the truth, but they just play-blind ‘cuz that’s Filipinos: romanticizing foolishness. And that’s where this movie feeds Filipino emotions.
I believe that this movie are for those broken hearted people, those who are left by someone they love, or for those people who just wants to ride with the trend.
Because to be completely honest, those people I know who like this movie are those highly emotional at the moment (or have been completely emotional for many months or years because they haven’t gotten over someone… Hi Jumegs!).
The movie is not practically good because there’s nothing unique, intense or good story to it. Though it was funny at times, real and Sagada scene was heavenly, I have to say: if I’ve seen this film way back when I haven’t found my someone special today or if this someone special would break my heart in the future (hope not): I would love this entire film.
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