Wednesday, May 19, 2010

copious tears

Habang May Buhay was fascinating. It was smooth-sailing with its plot until the last fortnight of its telecast when Clarissa (Gladys Reyes) pushed the boundaries of her miniature frame and took on a killing spree, as if she was one of the characters in the X-men. But screw my very limited comics vocabulary. There's a difference between innovated and totally screwed up storyline. The last episode reminded me of the film Imortal (1990) starring Vilma Santos and Christopher De Leon. I've never seen a Judy Ann Santos character withering in the catacombs. I've not yet seen Kulam (2008). She's a star and her characters are supposed to laze in happily ever afters. But the writers decided to go off-beat and came up with Mary Jane looking exactly like her mother. Great.
(pictures from star studio magazine february 2008)

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