WORDS BY: SIEGE MALVAR
IMAGE FROM THE MOVIE YOU CHANGED MY LIFE (STAR CINEMA, 2009)
February 11, 2010 | 6140 views
3. Love transcends classes. Movies about senorito falling for his maid or his assistant are always a box office hit. Case in point: A Very Special Love starring Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz. Why?
Because no matter how false the hope these movies offer, girls will forever and ever love these romantic fairytales.
4. The Happy Ending. Everything works out in the end. No matter how much of an asshole you were, or how many Derek Ramsays she had to go through before she realized she belongs to you, your movie doesn’t end until you’re happy.
Case in point: I Love You Goodbye starring FHM cover girl Angelica Panganiban and matinee idol Gabby Concepcion. The happy ending comes in the form of death. Really.
Somebody dies, giving somebody else closure, allowing that somebody else to marry another somebody else—get our drift? In any case the love triangle is set to peace and the happy ending is made possible because in a gist, somebody dies.
The point is: it’s not yet the end until you’re happy, not until you can smile when you hear your theme, not while you’re still sleeping around to get over her. There’s a reason why happy endings work: because a story doesn’t end until you finally have a reason to smile.
