Movie
outfits that make millions of money out from a single movie release should not
be entirely blamed for the current state of Philippine Cinema. The lion’s share
of this blame should go to us—the movie goers—who fell short in making our
country’s top production outfits realize their full potential to produce an
excellent film. When we continue to patronize spur-of-the-moment movies whose
primary aim is just to raise money for the sake of raising money per se, these
outfits continue to provide the silver screen with outputs with such cinematic
mediocrity.
As
of late, though, one film seems to be an exemption which broke my perception on
how I view Philippine movies nowadays. Though not that very great, It Takes a Man and a Woman—which top-billed
Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz—is a surprising treat. Upon the insistence
of a friend, my barkada happened to watch it last Saturday night, and I never
had any regrets in spending (because wasting
seems not to be the appropriate word) nearly two hours inside the cinema. Filipinos
has this penchant for anything that revolves around the topic of love. Across
generation, scores of songs, poems and movies has been devoted to love. All of
those are sure hits.
