It Takes a Man and a Woman (movie review)

Thinking of how you've totally change in a single mistake is not your fault. Thinking of how you wanted to go but can't, is really not a choice. And here, finally you did come but the damage had been done and returning when you are in pain is a hard challenge for you to be perfectly normal again. You can't just sleep and in one single night, when you wake up you've change.

What happen to Lyda and Miggy in the past is a different story in It Takes a Man and a Woman. This is reality, "Rainbows will never form without a little rain." Same things went to test Lyda and Miggy's  fate, temptations happened to Lyda in You've Change My Life when the character of Rayver Cruz appear as Macoy, Lyda’s high school best friend and now someone who is having a one-sided love for her,  it didn't surpass Lyda and Miggy. Then, Miggy's temptation is in this movie, where Isabelle Daza as Belle, Miggy's ex-girlfriend came and went back with him.

Last April. 31, 2013, 2nd day of It Takes a Man and a Woman directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina and distributed by Star Cinema and Viva Films, starring John Lloyd Cruz and Sarah Geronimo, I and my family watch it on free-seating. We are having a hard time finding a seat for 6 and then we were given seat at the upper last left row. My father is a fan of Lloydie and Sarah, well it is a rare occasion that even in his 54 he still gets the teenage dream whenever he watch them together, we've followed them since A Very Special Love, You've Change My Life until It Takes a Man and a Woman. And every film is a different story. You really can't expect what is going to happen next unless you watch it from the beginning to end.

It's a movie of reality, everything happens in the real world. You love and fall, then happy moments, then complications and eventually fall-out then break-ups, of course heartaches but soon you recover and decided to continue living for your family. But our world is not that big, after all it is round and there are always possibilities that halfway between you and your mending heart here he comes again and all that barriers you put up will fall and you will realize it wasn't enough. You tell yourself to move-on but you haven't really accepted the fact that it is not as simple as you say it. Those that happen in the past should stay in the past, of course not, because pause is the beginning of the future without it the future is a mess.

I would like to emphasize the virtue that I've learned on this film; Acceptance, to Forgive, and Give a Chance. Acceptance, what Lyda's mother did to her father, she said that she realized that even if he did something she still love him. Second, to Forgive is something that should be done after you accept the fact that there are no perfect relationships in this world, we all fall and learn then love again then tripped, it's a cycle of love, of life. I also like to quote Lyda's mother, it is the best, I think, line of the film when Lyda ask her on how to forgive: "Handa ka na ba? Kase desisyon yan." (Are you willing? Because it is a decision.) Last, Give a Chance, give him/her the benefit of the doubt. You shouldn't judge. What you should do first is to listen, listen to an explanation, demand for it, and if you are not satisfied that is the time you ask for time to think about it.

Also the story is not just about moving on, about making others suffer or having many antagonists, the story is not all of those. The story is about knowing what is really important, what we should chose when we are in a midst of confusion, is it the dream we had to achieve or chose between it and someone we love. The options are between your family and the one you love, a real life story when your family needed you and at the same time your love one is asking for you to be with them. I think this movie is a masterpiece. The 3 films are a masterpiece.

And an A plus factor here other that the story of Lyda and Miggy is the role of Joross Gamboa, Matet de Leon and Gio Alvarez, they lighten up the mode of the denial ex couple. Joross, as John  Rae really is a effective comedian, whenever he do his puch lines evryone in the cinema laughs and they are like 3 little pigs, with Zoila(Matet) and Vincent(Gio), they always lightens every drama in the story.

So if you haven't watched it yet, you have the idea of laughing at the same time crying. And that time I am amazed by the long lines of people outside the cinema doors, good thing we've done watching it.

P.S. Finish it until the end, you might miss it, if you leave early :)