Saturday Stories
May 27, 2017
Ninety-nine percent of all the lovers and one-night stands
with strangers that I've had were with people a lot older. This so-called
"May-December affair" is nothing new to me. The truth is, I like it
that way.
I've seen Celso Ad Castillo's
Tag-Araw, Tag-Ulan when I was a teenager, same age as the boy in the story. I
watched it again the other day, in another time and place, in another
unforgettable summer.
Roy (Gary Estrada) and his friends
come to the beach resort where his girlfriend Malou (Jenny Roa) is spending the
summer vacation. There he meets Jessie (Dina Bonnevie) who is a close friend of
Teresa (Suzanne Gonzales), the resort owner and Malou's aunt. Jessie had just
broken up with her boyfriend Richie (Mark Gil) and has come here to find
solitude.
On her last day, Jessie stands at
the shore, gazing out into the sea. Then she sees Roy coming back.
"Why do we look for a next
chapter in everything?" she says later. "Like what happened last
night. It was just one beautiful moment that's over, that will never change.
There's nothing after that. Let's not ruin it. It's much better this way, don't
you think? There will come a time when we will both remember that, once in our
lives, we had one beautiful summer worth remembering. One beautiful summer to
remember...forever..."
Photo courtesy of PEP.ph
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