Isa Pa, with Feelings

 

When it comes to movies, I’m very finicky and since none of the local movies have impressed me for a while, there has been no entry in my blog about them. Thus this is going to be my first Filipino movie blog entry and I hope you enjoy it. Before I begin, I have to warn you that this may contain some spoilers. And since this is one of the top-recommended movies in my list; I advise you to only read my entry after you watch the movie.

I found out a long while ago that Maine Mendoza will be having a movie with Carlo Aquino. Since I’m a proud Aldub fan, I’d definitely support Maine as much as I did with Alden. Truth be told, I was pessimistic about the movie because the title itself sounded cheesy! I thought that the movie would come out to be a rom-com with poor-quality story. Because if the title was poor, how much more for the story? It turned out that I was proven WRONG!

 

 

This is the story about Mara(Maine Mendoza) who’s about to take her architecture board exam. And Gali(Carlo Aquino) who’s deaf-mute and a sign language teacher. They easily cross paths since their condominium unit were alongside each other and also, Mara enrolled to learn sign language to discover that Gali was her teacher.

 

 

As the story progressed, you will come to acknowledge the burden of a deaf-mute for the movie also showed Gali’s perspective. What finally brought me to tears was Mara’s confrontation to Gali and how he rejected her completely due to the fact that they are different. All throughout that scene, I tried so hard to hide my tears because I was watching the movie with my mother. I don’t usually cry over a movie whenever someone is with me but I couldn’t held back my tears any longer! The movie was WELL-done! The actors played their part with passion that made you feel empathy with the characters! It’s by far, the best local movie this year!

When the movie finished. I raised my arms and gave a double thumbs up! And when I looked at my left side on the same row seat, I met a middle-aged woman’s eyes and saw that she too was crying. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one!