when love hurts played for the first time, i got captivated, Shazammed it, then added it onto my music library. but to hear it over and over again in the film? i never revisited that song once as of now.
this film asks us to always suspect to not be a victim, or the mistaken suspect. it seeks to subvert expectations, to not trust easily, and to guard oneself. the story might be quite predictable imo, yet the stylish execution…
I rode up nine extra floors just to keep talking to her.
Nine extra floors.
This is the line that struck me the most among all the interview segments of old and wrinkled yet happily married couples. Throughout the movie, I keep wondering: what’s the point of learning how these elderly couples have met? On finding out how they eventually knew— where it only took one glance, within a week, or a month, for them to know that the other…
pakshet benta sa’kin to, ‘di ko expect na gan’to kaganda si Jologs!
ito yung nawawalang diwa ng mga filipino films ngayon imo. yung effort para mabuo ang ensemble na’to, kitang-kita, mula sa pagkakahabi-habi na storya ng mga karakter na interesting ang bawat kwento.
may natackle si Jologs tungkol sa family problems, sa love, sa religion, sa sexuality and society! halatang may budget, may production, may kwenta, at match na match yung soundtrack ne’to.
Jologs deserves more love & appreciation in today’s generation, may…
so calming to watch during a rainy day. expected it to be entirely pleasant and heartwarming, but it eventually became painfully bittersweet. it portrayed love - the falling in and out of it - while saying so little.
like wind blowing as tree branches brush against one another, or caressing each other’s skin: these are just one of such snapshots both in love and in nature that you can fondly experience in the present, strictly so.
then one day, like flipping…
