And so this is the story of my life. Someone must take it down and turn it into a Jdorama or something because its so greatly dramatic and at the same time very very very twistedly funny.
Because last week (Tuesday) I met with Jewel Castro, the very very very nice lady that I'm practicum-ing (Iknowitsnotanactualwordbutletmebe) with and she was very nice enough to give me a free ticket to watch! The catch was it was Love Me Again and, well, I haven't seen the film yet so I can't judge it yet and I don't really expect her to know that I don't exactly have a fondness for watching Filipino films because, well, I guess my taste is just a bit different. But so anyway, she gave me the ticket. Free. No charge. It was a free pass into any cinema. The rub was that during the time she gave it to me, it was almost a month since the movie first started showing. She hoped that I would watch it before it disappeared from the cinemas. In addition to that, she told me that my assignment for her, by *this* Tuesday, was to write the outline (the 3-Act Structure) for the entire film. "Watch it from the perspective of a writer and not just as a normal audience member," she instructed. So sure, okay. As if I haven't had enough outlining for WRIFILM, NARATIV and THESIS. But sure, she was very nice about it, why deny her the niceness she deserves, right? So, sure, I'll write another outline because all I can see in films now are Setup, Inciting Incident, Plot Point1, Build up, Midpoint, Plot Point 2, Climax, Payoff and Resolution anyway. Seriously. Then I have to watch other films too, also in Tagalog. She wanted one of each genre: Horror (Sukob), Rom-Com (A Very Special Love), Drama (A Love Story), Comedy (iforgotthetitlebutidontwanttoleaveitblank), etc. I've watched the Romantic Comedy and in all fairness the movie was actually very good. The story was told well, it had comedy in all the right places and lines that weren't so EEEEEWWW. Okay. So I didn't have any of the rest so I watched For the First Time... OH MY LORD my brain hurt trying to turn off the television screen and the dvd player. I was like... (i'm sorry to those who enjoyed the film...) "I'M DYING HERE! HELP! HELP!" It was... ugh. Torture. Absolute torture. But the assignment was to watch as many Filipino films as I could. And so watched I...died.. i mean, did. Watched I did. It was cheezy and corny and unbelievable and... I don't know. It wasn't convincing for me, even if I did like their performance, I didn't like the story at all. I felt that their trip to Greece was a waste... they didn't have to go all the way to Greece to shoot that.. That could have been done in Tagaytay and it would still have the same effect. None. Anyway....So skipping the other movies that I watched. My problem was still Love Me Again.
I checked the screenings and there was none, at least, in the usual malls that I visit, or any those near my area. I wanted to watch on Thursday but seeing as there wasn't any showing, I thought I would just search for a DVD. There was none in Astroplus or Odessey. I guess its because its still so new. And I found Sukob but it was either Php299 for a VCD and Php699 for a DVD. And why would I do that? I would gladly do so if it were something like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (the DVD which I, funnily enough considering that I'm a huge HP nut, don't have yet). I refused to spend a dime. I resigned to looking for DVD copies. But the people of Metrowalk are law-abiding people. God Bless their pirating Hollywood-films souls fore they refuse to pirate local films. This never bothered me the least before, naturally, but isn't it ironic.. And for the first time ever I didn't buy any Japanese dramas or concerts in Metrowalk. I was too concerned about Love Me Again. WTH.
I was going to give up, but this morning my father struck gold and discovered that most SM Malls were still showing Love Me Again. The problem was we are so far from any SM mall that wasn't SM Makati, which didn't have any cinemas (they shoooooouuulllddd). But so, okay, there. In SM Megamall there is still one! Today! At 4:40PM! Fabulous! We can eat lunch, chat with my mom, make that last story for WRIFILM, get re-dressed in our Mass clothes, leave home, go to Megamall, watch the thing (even if I saw the reviews and found out that critics rated it a 1.5 out of 5 What. The. H, I say, but I won't), go home, write the outline, edit thesis, make practicum interview questions, watch Slumdog Millionaire and go to DreamLand as my Happily Sunday After... but no. I was really relieved, so I pluck the ticket from my plastic envelope to transfer it to my other smaller hand bag and I check it out:
Star Cinema Free pass to Love Me Again, yadayadayadaaaa, valid in any theater, yadayadayadaaaaa...Not Valid on First Day of Showing, Holidays and Sundays....yadayadaya---no, wait, what?
"Not Valid on First Day of Showing, Holidays and... SUNDAYS"????
I leaped out of my bed, tripped on the wire of my laptop, got up and hit my head on my fan, walked out of my room rubbing my poor nogin, sat on the chair of the desktop area which I missed, cursed at myself and turned on Firefox and checked the date on the calendar to double check that it was sunday. My head hurt and my vision blurred.. I saw it say:
SSuunnddaayy, FFeebbrruuaarryy 0088,, 220099
So that sucked. And I did my usual soliloquy and ran to my dad's room to tell him my amazing, groundbreaking, me tripping, head aching, ass-missing-the-chair discovery.
His solution: "Edi bayaran mo nalang."
"TUMPAK!" I heard some people on Cinema One tell Toni Gonzaga in some film that I don't know the title of because I was hoping A Love Story was on so I could cross that off my list.. anyway, i'm missing the point.
So anyway, I slapped my forehead and tantrum-ed out of the room, pouting, went back into my room and stuffed the ticket back into my bag anyway. Maybe the Lord will grant me that one wish of the Megamall Cinema Movie personnel people to look upon me with pity, watching the film all by my lonesome. And with God knowing that I am such in a pinch with money because it is my life's destiny to go to Japan with every single centavo I have, will grant me free pass into the movie anyway.
Again, my Sunday story alone would make for a very interesting episode of a drama, don't you think. Very rollercoaster-y in emotion and yet very hilarious. Yes, you may laugh at me. I laugh at myself too. All the Godblessed time. c:
PS. Belated Happy Birthday to Momochi-chan!!! Yeah! Make me okonomiyaki because I've never eaten it before!
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