pick flick: letters to juliet

Letters to Juliet download became available only recently. Even if Armida raved about this a month ago, was able to download a copy only today and also because of Juno's recommendation. But before Juno's recommendation, I already wanted to get myself a copy when Armida said it's a must-see movie for hopeless romantics. Not exactly a hopeless romantic here, hopeless lang.

 
Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) plays a fact-checker who lives in New York. She goes on a pre-wedding honeymoon (?) with chef boyfriend Victor (Gael Garcia Bernal) who is very passionate with his craft. So they went to Italy and found themselves doing their own thing in what's supposed to be their time together. Sophie finds herself in a tourist sight- the supposed house of Juliet of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. She helped this group of women who claim to be "Juliet's secretaries" who wrote back to all those heartbroken girls who posted their love problems below Juliet's balcony, by replying to this one letter which was written 50 years ago. Claire (Vanessa Redgrave), the one who wrote that letter 50 years ago, comes to Italy to take another chance on love with the one that got away, Lorenzo Bartolini. But his grandon Charlie (Chris Egan) wasn't so happy about this...

Oo nga, perfect for hopeless romantics for this movie makes us believe in love. Letters to Juliet makes us believe in destiny, that the powers of the universe will conspire to make it happen. As with Sophie and Charlie's case, even if they started on the wrong foot, things still unfolded the way as it should be- which was to make them fall in love with each other. Sabi na nga ba, ang mga nagtatarayan sa umpisa, usually sila din nagkakatuluyan.

Italy is such a beautiful country! How I wish I could visit Italy someday... And also I'm envious of their cities. How I also wish Metro Manila would become a pedestrian city! I would love to go around the city thru walking. And that would be hitting two birds with one stone- 1) good for our health; and, 2) we're helping the environment by not taking our fuel-powered automobiles.

However if Claire's true love is really Lorenzo, does this mean that she didn't really love Charlie's grandfather? Just a thought. This reminds me of Bridges of Madison County though. Speaking of Bridges of Madison County, I want to watch that movie again.

Such a cheeseball if you ask me, but all love stories are supposed to be cheesy. The story's cheesy enough. Add Taylor Swift's Love Story playing in the background, we've got one helluva cheesefest. But I like it :) I like cheesy. Makes me all giddy inside. Aamagin nako dito sa sobrang daming keso.