Imagine my happiness when they finally set a release date for A Second Chance together with it's trailer! Totoo na ngaaaa!
I got to watch it on the first weekend it was shown. I was dead serious about spoilers that I didn’t read Twitter hashtags about it, I scrolled up when I see even the title in other people's tweets as well and I did not even read a blog with “quotable quotes” from it. I even posted that I will unfollow anyone who posted spoilers. See? Dead serious.
I got to watch it on the first weekend it was shown. I was dead serious about spoilers that I didn’t read Twitter hashtags about it, I scrolled up when I see even the title in other people's tweets as well and I did not even read a blog with “quotable quotes” from it. I even posted that I will unfollow anyone who posted spoilers. See? Dead serious.
The sequel feels like coming home—to a house where you grew up in, with the friends you grew up with. The film tackled typical marital problems. One More Chance was where they had to find out who they are as individuals, A Second Chance is bigger than that. It’s what couples in real life experiences and argues about—big or small. Hindi lang naman laging 3rd party ang dahilan ng hiwalayan, it can start from the smallest, most mundane things like the things you stopped doing—like how you never hold hands anymore or the biggest lies—like lying to convince yourself that you’re still happy when you’re over the edge.
I’m actually thankful they didn’t play up with “the
mistress” angle, that they decided to go with this route in the story, na
everyday problems na nagbuild up lang. Gasgas na naman talaga yang kabit-kabit
angle eh.
In the film, Popoy’s still egotistical guy who may have
anger management disorder has trouble with letting people love him. Let me just
point out how minsan ang o.a. ng mga away. Ganon ba talaga? Ang bilis
mag-escalate ng mga away nina Popoy at Basha. Siguro dahil sa tempers. O dahil
hindi na rin si Basha yung Basha Belinda on the first parts of One More Chance
noon na lagi lang tahimik at submissive kay Popoy. John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo have chemistry like no other. You'll really feel na naghu-hugutan sila ng emotions from each other. That's why it worked. That's why we believed in the Popoy-Basha magic.
Also, I wish I have a Thursday Group barkada. Yung may voice of
reason like Krizzy (Dimples Romana) and JP (Ahron Villena), may referee like
Kenneth (James Blanco), Comedian and enabler like Chino (Janus del Prado) at hindi rin mawawala ang cynical/cautious na si Anj (Bea Saw).
I’m still single but I learned so many things about
relationships on the film. Made me realize how avoidant I am when it comes to
arguments. I can relate more with Popoy than I can with Basha. That I can be
insecure about making mistakes, that it can take a while before I forgive
myself. Not everyone is lucky enough to find the one. Or that really, there is
no “the one”. And it’s true that staying in love is a choice that you have to
make, everyday for the rest of your life. So I think every couple who’s about to get married should watch the film first, see that marriage isn’t all rainbows and butterflies. That the butterflies will go away.
Maybe I appreciated it because I feel that I’ve matured as a
film viewer. If I were younger, I probably wouldn’t like it as much.
Was it better than the first film? The two tackled different
problems. Like I said before, it’s more than finding yourself now. They found
themselves already, it’s just a matter of accepting the other for who they are,
who they are not and who they’re not going to be. A Second Chance is not better
nor worse than its prequel, but it’s everything I hoped it would be.
