Grrr. I'm quite frustrated right now. The vcd that I bought was crappy!!! The copy, I mean, not the movie itself. Ang mahal pa naman! I bought it for 1oo pesos each disc. Wala na kasing ibang store na nagbebenta nun, plus, highly recommended pa yung movie, so I bought it. Nasira yung aking viewing pleasure!!! During the middle part of the movie, it was scrambling so bad, I had to stpo watching it. I'm so mad!Anyway, I'll try watching it later sa player ng sister ko. Baka magwork dun...

Anyway, the movie's name was,"Il Mare".It means, "the sea", though I'm not sure whether it's Italian or Spanish. Or French. I think it might be Italian. The storyline was very unique, like a cross between "You've Got Mail" and "Frequency" (actually ginaya ko lang yung sinabi ng isang reviewer sa Internet..hehe). The movie opens with this girl who's moving out of this house by the sea. She leaves a letter in the mailbox, addressing it to whoever will be the next occupant of the house. Then , next scene, a guy moves into that same house, and names it "Il Mare". He sees the letter in the mailbox, and reads it. What's strange is that the letter is dated 1999...when it's actually 1997 only. Gets? Well I'm bad at making summaries, but basically, the girl from 1999 starts to communicate with the guy from 97 via the "magic mailbox", and they fall in love, etc, etc. It's not as corny as it sounds at all. It's actually a very nice film, with good cinematography, good direction, good musical scoring,etc...I just like it because it's a subtle romance and not your overlydramatic-with-overlysappy-lines movie. By the way, the movie is Korean, and I heard from somewhere that there will be a Hollywood remake of this starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. Ano ba yan, even Holywood is running out of ideas. I thought our local industry was the only one na gaya-gaya sa mga films. Well...at least in hollywood they buy the rights.

Speaking of our own local movie industry, I saw Peque Gallaga's interview on Straight talk, and it seems that he's resuming his direction with "Pinoy Blonde", a new film from Unitel. Anyway he commented on how our movie industry is improving and is how there are a lot of good films emerging. Yeah right...the last trailer of a good movie that I saw was...well, "Oro plata mata" from Cinema One. Okay, I admit that I've only watched a few local films, pero kasi, you could tell from watching the trailers (lalo na yung from Star Cinema...yung bagong movie nila) na sobrang sappy yung movie. I don't know, maybe I'm just biased, because I kinda hate the local actors here.
I think, I'd rather watch old films, kahit na black and white na, especially my lola's films. Too bad na wala nang copies dito. I'd love to watch Lino Brocka's films. My mother was saying of how, back then, there were no cable tvs, no pirated dvds and no internet, no form of entertainment at all, save from the local movies. That's why no matter how bad your movie was, people will still go see it because they have nothing better to do. She says that that time was the "Golden Age of Local Cinema". Now, I guess, it's the "Green Age of Local Cinema"...since maraming x-rated films ngayon...hehe.

Sorry, I think I've bored you with my uncalled-for lecture of the history of local cinema...anyway, till next time. I'll now try watching the movie again. Wish me luck.