Sinepiyu 2010, Shorts A (Movie)

"From Scratch to Art"

Marking a life of misunderstood and ignored, gangsters are known to be one of the unwanted groups in the society because of the troubles they usually get into. Oldies do not understand their advocacies and yuppies of their age ignore them. James Mulyon was able to portray a gangster’s life through his piece Pangarap ng Makata. The film revolves around a gangster who chose to push his dreams to immortality through his songs. If his world even denies his soon to be ‘famous life’, will he throw the key to the door of his success? Wriggly camera shots were able to show the gangster’s scruffy life. Although, subtitles were not able to justify the film’s thought, and served as distraction in the film.

If only saving a file in the computer is as easy as saving your future, life might be easy. Twisting the story into surprising revelation was the game for Mona Liza Sumaya’s Bibero. A cat-dog fight of two students who were doing their assignment lead to the revelation of the past that has something to do with their present situation, and made an avenue for a decisive moment that would change their future. The screenplay was able to surprise the audience and satisfy them with the story. Shots were clear, and the setting was so close to the audience due to familiarity.

Looks are deceiving; what seems to be nice could be bad, and what seems to be right could be wrong. Metro of D Cortezano is a film about different person’s personality that leads to the reality of their attitudes as brown out takes place in their area. The film was good in justifying the character arcs of every character involve in the story.

Lucks can be caused by unexpected situations in life. Yet there are people wherein luck seems to be against their way. Simply comical and full of adventures was Cj Villaver’s Sablay. Akuya who faced all the bad lucks he had just to get the very important thing in his life. Sometimes, fighting for something important in our life would take our life’s risk, yet, it wouldn’t matter if at stake is the happiness of the ones we love.

Life is miserable if you make it worst, for it us who chooses our own path. Every pages of our life is different from the other, yet, history repeats itself. Pahina by Hazel Benavaente is a story of a student who undergoes family problem. His situation reflects a ghost in a library wherein the same fate ended up his life. The screenplay was clear and was able to separate the past from the present happenings. The film was clear in its message but it lacks scoring to surprise the audience from its horror attempt.

As the saying says, “Good things come to those who wait”; Waiting Shed by Bryan Aquino was able to execute symbolically the virtue in patience. A girl sits at the waiting shed for the whole day. While waiting, he encountered different people who wait for someone or something that made them happy. The shot was simply focused on the waiting shed and the characters in there. The screenplay was clear with its message that sometimes, waiting does not imply a happy ending, and this means waiting for another whole day.

Love knows no boundaries. Crossing the world of death and life was not a hindrance for two lovers in Cristina Aquino’s Puso. A man and his girlfriend reminisce their first times as it is juxtaposed to a man running, to a dog lying on the floor, up to the revealing surprise of the story. Their love was not the typical story and the screenplay was able to execute a remarking end. Truly love does not depend on the physical realm but extends up to the 'other world’s' dimension.