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Cast: Bianca King, Jennica Garcia, Tessie Tomas, Pinky Marquez, Chinggoy Alonzo, and Boots Anson-Roa. The movie is another co-production of GMA Films and Regal Entertainment and is directed by Mac Alejandre.
The most controversial love team of the hour, Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes, will star in a romantic drama “One True Love.”
Synopsis: Medical intern named Migs (Dingdong Dantes) will have to deal with the conflict between his heart and his mind. After three years of courtship, he is about to get married to Joy (Marian Rivera), a nurse who works in the same hospital as him. However, days before the wedding, his first love Bella (Iza Calzado) returns to the Philippines. The balikbayan is still single and still in love with Migs, whom she broke up with in the past when her family migrated to the United States for their restaurant business.
The women in Migs’s life try to get along with each other but knowing that they are both in love with the same man give rise to feelings of jealousy and envy. When Migs gets into an accident, he develops lacunar amnesia, a type pf amnesia that blocks off time periods from one’s memory. In his case, it blocks off the three years that he was in love with Joy and leaving him with memories of Bella.
Also starring in One True Love are Iza Calzado, Jennica Garcia, Pinky Marquez, Bianca King, Tessie Tomas, Boots Anson Roa and Chinggoy Alonzo.
One True Love is a co-production of Regal Films and GMA films written by Maryo J. delos Reyes and directed by Mac Alejandre. Coming to theaters nationwide on November 19, 2008.
Synopsis:
Migs (played by Dingdong) is a medical intern about to get married to a nurse named Joy (played by Marian). Days before the wedding, his first love Bella (Iza) returns to the Philippines. Bella is still single and still in love with Migs determined to fight for her love. Migs then figures into an accident and develops lacunar amnesia and he forgets about his relationship with Joy, leaving him with memories of Bella. Joy finds it difficult to accept what happened but vows to make Mig’s heart remember what his mind cannot.
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Untrue Love
by Philbert Ortiz Dy
On paper, One True Love has a lot of things going for it. The premise is somewhat compelling, and the cast brings in a lot of talent. In practice, however, things don’t work out that way, as a few bad habits rear their ugly heads and leave the film decidedly subpar.
After one year of dating, Migs proposes to his girlfriend, Joy, and she happily accepts. When Migs tells the news to his family, his sister Ara then gives the news to Migs’ first love Bela, who lives in Canada. Bela returns to the country to give their love one last try, but Migs chooses Joy. The day after their wedding, Migs gets into a motorcycle accident. He wakes up with partial amnesia, unable to remember Joy and under the impression that he’s still with Bela. After getting him through physical therapy, Joy does everything she can to bring back his memory, but Migs continues to be drawn to Bela, leaving husband and wife to be strangers in their own home.
The story has a really great hook, but the script doesn’t really have the substance to back it up. While the script gets points for an attempt at emotional sophistication, it ultimately doesn’t go there, painting the characters in broad strokes that just don’t ring true. The character of Bela in particular lacks the consistency needed to let her plight really resonate. It doesn’t help that a lot of the situations in the script aren’t portrayed in a realistic light. It’s difficult enough to accept that a woman who left her boyfriend to go to Canada would suddenly go back to the country on a whim just to disrupt a wedding, but this is also a world where a woman takes a pregnancy test just because she sees one, and a woman won’t call her husband’s phone (or the phone of the person she suspects him to be with) when he goes missing. A myriad of plot holes keep the film from rising emotionally, as it feels like the choices of the characters were made just for the convenience of the filmmakers.
The film suffers from tone as well. Practically every scene in this film is undercut by a soaring score that really does nothing for the entire picture. It’s like they don’t trust their own material, leaning on the score to tell people how they’re supposed to feel. It’s terribly annoying, and it hampers the film from letting its action rise. When every scene feels the same, the movie suffers as a whole. There are a few technical hiccups as well. The color grading shifts from shot to shot, which is just a baffling mistake. Movies with a fraction of this film’s budget don’t make that mistake. The film gains a few points in the acting department, though they’re pretty hard won as well. There’s somewhat of a soap opera feel to the production, which affects the acting as well. It just doesn’t feel as good as it could be, had the actors been given room to find a more genuine place to start from. Marian Rivera turns in a pretty decent performace. Iza Calzado is still one of the finest actors on our shores, though her character has most definitely gotten in the way of her performance. Dingdong Dantes makes a pretty good leading man, even if he tends to fall back on the same three tricks to get his point across.
Honestly, I came into the theater ready to love One True Love. I was intrigued by the premise, and Iza Calzado is just about my favorite actress. But this film just betrayed me at every turn, with glaring technical deficiencies and absolutely baffling scripting choices. It’s frustrating, because it feels like the pieces were all there, but the filmmakers just didn’t care enough to put them all together, instead choosing to just take the most convenient path to a completed movie. That never produces anything good.
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