Two less lonely people to another lonely soul
"Bulag ka ba?
Hindi mo ba
nakikitang
bulag ako?"
"Ai-shi-yu
Nakikita kita."
I see you.
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Sweet, happy, full-of-hope Lea under her full-pants jumper and bright smiles started the film so light, it makes you think of laid-back summer with set of an upbeat yet chill songs and lots of tall sunflowers.
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"Kita Kita (I see you)" is a brilliant indie romantic-comedy film directed by Sangrid Andrea played by Alessandra de Rossi as Lea and comedian Empoy Marquez as Tonyo, shot and first released in Japan.
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The story is about Lea, a Filipino tourist guide based on Sapporo, who was hopefully expecting to be married with her fiancé, Nobu, in that year; only for her to discover that her fiancé was cheating. By having discovered so, Lea experienced "temporary blindness" caused by too much stress.
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It was such a rough experience watching them acting at first, I found myself cringing more than once. I even began calculating how much money I wasted for such a film. I thought, "maybe it is because of the uneasiness between the cast and the foreign actors and the fact that they are in a foreign country, maybe it is because of the actors, or maybe it is just because of the poor directing."
Whatever reason it may be, I am glad that the film got its momentum to maneuvered out of its prior nightmare.
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As the film goes, I realized how the actual film defeated the expectation I had from watching the trailer. Honestly, the trailer kind of degraded the film because the film is actually much better than they tried to advertise it to be.
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The way the cameras captured shots, the way the effects are aptly applied on some scenes, the way it was brilliantly chronologically-edited, and the way the music hugged it beautifully wove the film in a mixed-emotion frames that will give the audience much of an adventure, they better have a lot of tissues before entering the huge room.
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The acting improved from low to a critically high level when Tonyo entered the scene. It was so good, it will make you think some scenes were not scripted. De Rossi played Lea splendidly, it seemed she was emitting some sort of charm in the movie. Marquez played Tonyo brilliantly, too, making it possible for the audience to blush, cry and laugh, you may end up smiling even on the most emotional parts because of his fun 'in-character' skills.
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And, oh, the chemistry. I can not even accurately put it into words, but I'll try: the chemistry is utterly undeniable; it crawls on the floor, creeps up to the wall, hangs on the ceiling, infects the couches, ending up suffocating all of us in the cinema with much 'kilig', some of us could not even suppress it, they end up making weird 'kilig' noises. If the film will not make you blush or uncontrollably clap and wail like a seal, well, I do not know what will.
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This film deserves the attention it is currently getting, and maybe more.
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Kita Kita was produced by Spring Films and Viva Films, screening in Cinemas nationwide.
