Nursing my fever, my sister and I had the whole day to bum around and go on a movie-marathon. Checking the movie list, my sister and I ran through the choices.
Me: Who's in here? (Pointing to the DVD)
Sister: Oh, that's Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz' film and that guy from Grey's Anatomy.
Me: Huh?
Sister: Danny Duquette (laughs)
Me: Oh...
Sister: Ano ka ba, you don't know that? They won awards kaya for this.
Me: Ah ok, sige go!
Traveling through the streets of Barcelona, experiencing Catalan culture and the art scene is really the first thing that interest me in this film. The story revolves around friends Vicky and Christina in Barcelona, V for an in-depth study of Catalan culture for her postgrad studies, and C to get over her ex. Both characters exhibit contrasting personalities with straight and stiff V and free-spirited C crossing paths with artist J who both got girls smitten over him (J previously married to unstable Penelope).
What I like about the film is how they tackled human nature's precedence over monogamy (sexual orientation is not the issue here) despite the orientation and nature of C's character. Being an artist, C's character was expected to go outside what is expected of human relationships, yet in the end the yearning and feeling of having a "normal" relationship, prevailed. Whereas, refined V who is the epitome of perfection (fiancee, marriage, career), finds herself torn between an affair with J or staying with her fiancee Mr. Stepford (hehe).
And so was the infamous never-happened threesome...
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