"Hey, shall I kiss your neck?"
"Nope"
"Then I should kiss your heart."
"First you marry me."

"What a fool I am! If a movie is made on my life the title will surely
be 'A girl who fell for a hooligan'".

"When I eloped [...], my mom cursed me. The curse would follow to
[bring] ruin here. That's my fate."
"Then you have found the right place. There is nothing left here to be
ruined."

Four sons of one Napoleon, long dead, stumbling through life without
anchor in the scenic town of Kumbalangi, their widowed mother having
renounced all familial responsibilities for zealous---and perhaps
faux---religious engrossment, attempt to leave their old ways and
learn to work together for a better life after happening upon
course-correcting forces: education for the youngest; the
rediscovered, unprovoked and unremitting love of an old admirer for
the penultimate; brotherhood for the second, the most grounded of the
siblings, albeit a bit aloof; and the guilt of causing the death of a
loyal friend---survived by an expectant wife---during a capricious
alcohol-catalyzed suicide attempt, for the eldest.

An absolute delight of a movie. Very well-told and sincere.

[16 November 2024]