>The lines flashed on the screen before the start of the movie, "Para sa mga umibig. Nasaktan. At, para sa mga umibig muli. In short, tatanga-tanga lang.", sent everyone guffawing in unison (including me). In short, lahat nakarelate. Hindi lang ako sigurado kung alin dun sa tatlong categories ang malaking percentage ng dahilan ng pagtawa pero malaki ang hinala ko, dun sa tatanga-tanga lang. The crazy things we do for love, talaga naman.
>The whole story is like the love stories of everyone that we know of, including that of ourselves, fused into one. While listening to Angelica, all the while, I was muttering quietly, "Ay story 'yan ni ano! Teka lang, linya 'yan ni ano. Oh my, bitter na bitter lang, kaming-kami lang dati." And, the lines were delivered on point, with a load of realistic sarcasm. This is what sets indie films from the well-marketed, highly produced movies---the rawness, and the intelligent, well-thought of lines. Yung alam na alam mong ginawa with a perfect balance of puso and utak.
>The lead female character, played by Angelica Panganiban, is somebody whom everyone can identify with. Yung scene pa lang sa plane na ngawa siya nang ngawa habang nanonood ng One More Chance at nakikisabay sa mga linya ni Bea, that was the point I guess, which made her all the more real. Hello? Like almost everyone I know can attest to this: One More Chance is the ultimate break-up/where-do-broken-hearts-go-? movie. Ang mga ibang magdi-disagree, ayaw lang matawag na jologs pero at one point, siguradong napanood din ang movie na 'to. Classic. Nakasama na nga siya sa list ng classic movies ng Cinema 1 kasama ang Oro Plata Mata, Anak, Kapag Langit ang Humatol, at Hindi Nahahati ang Langit. Kaya, no further discussion on this matter.
>JM de Guzman is not your typical guapo artista but he has a way of charming his way to your heart. He didn't even need to over-act. He was just simply comfortable to watch.
>Minsan lang akong kiligin, sa mga weird na bagay at pangyayari pa. There were two scenes in the movie that did just that---one turned me into pure slush, the other reduced me into a puffy ball of awkward tears. Ahaha. The part when JM was trying to put his arms around Angelica's shoulder, no, that didn't make me kilig. It was actually more of JM's arm that did it, suspended in the air, undecided whether to support or to hold back. The awkwardness was just so real and endearing. The second scene (Yes, the part in which I was only one who probably cried.) was when JM said (not in verbatim), "Ako, napanaginipan din kita. Pero walang bungee jumping sa panaginip ko, walang talon-talon, walang bumitaw. Corny nga eh. Naglalakad lang tayo sa session road. Yun lang. Madaming tao, tapos naglalakad lang tayo." That was a beautiful metaphor for me of a quiet and constant kind of love---the kind of love that gives you this warm feeling rather than the heady rush. Quiet. Constant.
>I was having a conversation with somebody (You know who you are. *wink), and I said, "We love several people in our entire lifetime. Lucky are those who love at first try and then end up together, for good. But for the most part of the human population, it will be about loving several people all throughout their lives. And so we say the same words, show the same acts of love from one relationship to another. Which made me think, which are genuinely real, which are done and said only because they're supposed to be done and said?" I was reminded yesterday when I watched the film, "There are many kinds of love but not the same love can happen twice." Tama nga naman. Hindi nasusukat ang pag-ibig sa laki o sa timbang. Hindi nga sila dapat ipagkumpara kasi nga, iba-iba ang klase nang pagmamahal. I was pacified. Ewan ko lang sa kausap ko. Ahahaha.
>I was giddy because the movie showed broken people on the way to healing themselves who realize that when you love, you can't leave it all up to fate or destiny or tadhana. You fight for the people you love and when nothing else happens, let go.
>The short story about the heart and the arrow, hay. It's a gentle reminder that our hearts' choices have greater power over tadhana.
>Ang LSS ko ngayon ay Tadhana. Need I say more?
>The movie made me instantly want to backpack to Sagada.
>Where do broken hearts go nga ba? Iyan ang pilit na sinagot sa pelikula. Hindi ko pa din alam ang sagot, at kahit yung director, hindi din nasagot ang tanong na ito. But for now, I'm just sure of one thing: Let's go to Bagiuo/Sagada and fall in love. If not, we can start in Iloilo's little Bagiuo. Let's go there and fall in love. *wink
