There was this very humid day when my apartment was so unbearable to sleep in (ala aircon, poor lang po me). So I decided to go mall-ratting when I saw on the movie guide "the wedding date". hmmm.. the star of the movie was in the original wedding movie "My Best Friend's wedding" (I think this is a real sequel to the movie..he and the girl split up..and he now makes a living doing high class escort services). Well anyways, I was a fan of the former so I decided to check this one out. I bought a 99 (!..in an Extra challenge feature..one family of 10 eats for the day spending less than that) peso ticket. Going in, the damn lights of Gateway cinema shone on me so brightly that my oily head shines like Enceladus viewed from midnight Arizona. Needless to say, I was exhibit A -- lonely homo sapien losing the battle of bloodline extinction due to inherent gene defect causing immobilized verbal and mental activity when introduced to specimens of a dominant female variety of mutated chimpanzees. Some were actually sorry for me...others disgusted at seeing someone breaking the tradition and formality of such a sacred ritual of cuddling in the dark, everyone's excited to start.
Well, I've payed 99 pesos so I've decided to live this experience through. I saw a an empty chair in the middle of the upper portion of the cinema. What a luck! Two girls are sitting beside it. So grabbing the oppurtunity, I somewhat rushed to the seat and sat down with a big smug on my face (touch down!). The boyfriends of those girls were somewhat alarmed at seeing a lunatic sitting beside the apple's of their eyes, which resulted to their reactions of pulling the girls towards them in a very objectively uncomfortable position (they say, when your in love..nothing else matters) corralling the ladies with the reach of their arms.
There's a reason some films are called "date movies"...
Watching alone, one feels alot lonelier when the protagonist kisses the maiden in distress (or in this case, the distressful maiden). One feels so out-of-place when in the climax of the movie lovers (and puppy lovers) cuddle to cheerish the moment. Some cry, some laugh, and some even steal kisses in the dark (obviously I was no longer watching the movie and instead was spying around). And one's laughter just seem so ajar and self-conscious, feeling that the everyone's paying attention to the one who couldn't bring a date.
For 99 pesos..I paid to learn a lesson not found in the movie script.
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