Saturday, August 18, 2012

Bittersweet: Managing a smile as tears trace its shape.

Russovoir could not, strangely until this point - two (2) days after - properly identify the right emotions for the film People Like Us. It's one of those films that leave one questioning if one fully understood the gravity of the situation, even to a generous or had extremities met, a mutuality. I took the circumstances in the film, on both lives unraveled, to be admirable than to be pitied.

Yet I never hampered a tear or two that somehow felt an intense emotion, escaping through one's eyes from an inexperienced and indisposed being. Honest to one's feelings, Russovoir was unfeeling what were unfamiliar circumstances until it prompted one's affected emotional accounts. Compassion was predominant along with peace in one's heart for although the mutual understanding was absent, Russovoir is human. Humans have a supposed ability to feel for others; friend or stranger, relatable or irrelevant life triumph or tragedy.

"I made him choose."

Even more so that it's based on true events.

If Russovoir had a peso for every time engross took over him each fleeting scene, he would have had other snacks than just a measly bar of Mrs. Field's brownie. How will he tell her? How will she react? What on earth was he thinking? Questions were thrown back and forth, thirsty for answers, and as soon as they were quenched, my brain must've had more than enough because tears flowed out in reaction.

On his feet ever since he knew how to tie his shoelaces to a careful knot, a man estranged with his parents flew back home to his Dad's funeral he found as apathetic as even coming home. People Like Us is a heartwarming true story of how blood is thicker than water, even the ones you didn't know about hitherto from a Dad whom a son chose to run away from, while the other would do anything to run away with.

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