Wednesday, August 06, 2008 A Very Special Movie By Rene Lizada Papas Table
SAD ako. Mingaw. Depressed.
I was looking forward to watching A Very Special Love starring John Lloyd and Sarah Geronimo. I was going to invite my wife to watch it but alas, ayaw nya. Dili sya. Because according to her she does not feel the John Lloyd and Sarah love team. For my wife it will always be Bea and John Lloyd. And sayang. I cannot watch it kaya now, sad ako. Mingaw. Depressed.
I tried to lure her to the movie with dinner. No go. She stands firm and loyal to her love team. Now I am in a dilemma. I really want to watch the film but I cannot invite her. Raphael? Well he would probably kick me first or maybe he would watch it with his someone special. Besides it would look weird if a father and son would watch Sarah and John Lloyd. So Eps is out of the question.
Obviously I cannot invite my male friends because their wives would forcibly haul them into the movie. They probably will not be caught watching the film by themselves so it would take their wives to make them watch it. While I would like to watch but my wife does not like to. Haaay. So what now?
I can always ask my female friends to go with me but they would rather go with their husbands or other female friends and besides baka ma tsismis pa ako.
Imagine me with four or five females watching A Very Special Love? No puede pasar, or words to that effect. So what now? Because I really want to watch it. My only recourse is to go where no sane husband has gone to, I would have to do this alone. I and my lonesome self will be watching A Very Special Love. And that is something I have not done for a very long time, watch a movie alone.
But I have to say that when I was younger, way way younger I used to watch movies by myself. I guess it was my private time. I had no issues about watching movies alone before and in fact I preferred watching films by myself. There was no hassle, no one to explain things to. I was just by myself.
And watching movies before were three to four hours long because those of you who are my age or older can remember that we got to watch two films for the price of one. Double showing, two films. And that was a lot of fun for people like me who liked films. We could sit down in a movie house and just wile away the hours watching two films while we gobbled up food. My favorite junk foods before were chicharon bulaklak and those chocolate cookies. If I am not mistaken, they were Hi-Ros.
I used to watch a lot of films before because we had passes to Golden, Garmon and Galaxy theatres. If you are looking at those names with puzzled looks then you have just shown your age.
And sometimes when we were lucky we would not just watch double features. Sometimes we would be able to watch triple or even quadruple films. They used to call it a festival. And I remember one time they showed four, yes four Tarzan films at the Golden theatre. I recall I went in at about lunchtime and came out at about eight in the evening. I came out with jungle vines, bushes all over my body. I had perfected the Tarzan yell and I swear I could kill lions and other wild beasts. That you can do after you watched four, yes four Tarzan films in one sitting. That was a lot of fun. Those were cheap thrills. Of course I had to pay the price for it. For several hours I had to endure eye strain. You would get it too if you sat down for four, yes four hours of Tarzan films.
Today there is no such thing as a festival. Not a triple or even a double. You barely finish your snacks and the film is over. In those days you could eat two or even three times inside the moviehouse. And movies were cheap unlike today.
And now this. And now I have to watch A Very Special Love by myself. But that is okay. I have not gone to a theatre by myself for a long time now. I am looking forward to it. Well without the chicharon bulaklak I guess (my triglycerides are high!).
Maybe just maybe my wife might change her mind. I hope she does. I like watching with my wife better than watching alone.
