Tuesday 26 February 2019

                      ALONE TOGETHER


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College sweethearts Christine (Liza Soberano) and Raf (Enrique Gil) meet again for the first time, eight years after their breakup. Christine, who once was an over-achieving art student, has become a failure while Raf, a guy nobody thought would be a great man, is now an esteemed doctor to the barri
os. As both now live a life different from each other, their reunion takes them back to their youth and the dreams they shared back in the day. From then on, familiar feelings start to resurface and they find themselves falling in love with each other again. Will they both be willing to risk what they currently have just to feel the bliss of being young again?
Christine (Liza Soberano) an Art Studies major student at University of the Philippines Diliman a smart and very ambitious who is in a relationship with a Biology student at University of Santo Tomas, Raf (Enrique Gil) a very total opposite character of Christine.
The movie caught me off guard with its impressively dramatic lines, as other mainstream movies always do. A relatable story between two what-ifs romance, that also tapped into historical revisionism issues in a light emotion-grabbing process. 🙌

Sadly, dramatic lines wouldn't be enough to band-aid a bad formulaic screenplay. As the film jumps between two timelines at the beginning, a non-linear narrative became its matchstick for my underdeveloped attachment to liz-queen relationship. The introduction to our characters' relationship was cut short, and non-distinctive if you compare it to other Jadaone or star cinema films. They had the chance to be distinctive with their UP-UST cultural relationship, but the film did not delve into that and choses to have generic-advertisement-type of cheesy connection.

The absence of character background, and arc on Enrique's role contributed to shortfall of the romance that film wanted to establish in the first place, as if the whole movie is solely about Liza.

It would be a great movie if the story was marketed and developed in focus of Liza's ordeal, and not a story of romance rushed, cramped, confined, and forced to ''appear original''.

Do not believe me, it was a great watch for valentines season, if you are for good soundtrack and heart-breaking lines.

and the movie trailer was really great.
The Theme song is 214 by Rivermaya and was covered by JM De Guzman





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