February 28, 2024
Single mother Yna Verder (Beauty Gonzales) brought her despondent son Joey (Teejay Marquez) to a beach resort to recover after he was shamed online by a popular girl Miles (Devon Seron). There, beside one of the beach cottages, Yna met Joseph Lianzares (Kelvin Miranda), an unusual young man whose family owned a antique shop and loved to talk about history. He seemed to know a lot of things about Yna, like what viand she liked to cook.
From then on Joseph began to visit Yna frequently at their rest house. He told her how for reasons yet unknown, he felt a very strong connection with her. He shared that he had been having dreams about being called Joselito Ibanez (Kiko Ipapo) and being thrown into the ocean. Meanwhile, Joey had snapped out of his depression and began to develop a crush on Joseph, whom Joey called an old soul because of his fondness for things past.
The plot of this film was about reincarnation, albeit a local interpretation of the concept. While the concept was there and it was interesting to be fair, either screen writer Gina Marissa Tagasa or director Adolfo Alix could not figure out a better way to present the climax or the ending. The role of Joey was really an annoying one towards the end, especially that part where he inexplicably threw a tantrum while his mother was driving home.
The casting of the characters was quite strange. Beauty Gonzales is only 32 years old, but they want us to believe that her character Yna was already in her late teens in 1978 -- quite a stretch. Teejay Marquez was playing Yna's supposedly teenage son when he was only 2 years younger than Gonzales in real life. Kelvin Miranda is now 25 years old, only 7 years younger than Gonzales. It may look awkward, but not as May-December as they want us to think.
They made Yna's good friend Lisa Urieta (Tart Carlos) an expert on various paranormal phenomena, reincarnation in particular. You'd expect that she would be delivering meaningful theories on what happened to Joseph / Joselito -- but that exposition never came. I thought the role of Joseph's mother Anita (Elizabeth Oropesa) could shed more light, but she didn't. Thankfully, there was a last minute save at the epilogue with Abner (Bembol Roco). 4/10
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