100 tula para kay Stella

A perfect role playing game is inspired by a good story line. A perfect anime is backed up with good character build-up. It's the same way we look at it with a love story movie.

I rated this movie with a perfect score of 10 because it had a beautiful story line and has well-build up characters. The scenes were very much Filipino-like. Most of us can relate because we have had love stories of our own when we were still in College. That pure joy when you go together with your friend, who happened to be your crush. That pure pain you felt when you finally have the confidence to tell her about your feelings, yet it was too late.

These things happen in real life. Watching the movie made me want to go back to my past and should have done the things that could make my life happier.

One of the few Filipino films that is dear to me, maybe because I was with the best bunch of people when I watched this, but honestly! tears were shed, noses were clogged, and hearts broke while watching this film. It proves that love isn't enough to end up with the person you treasure to much.

100 Tula Para Kay Stella is one of the very few well-made films from the Philippines. Fueled with dynamic performances from all the cast, very well-written plot and screenplay, well-crafted cinematography and a writer-director who shows that he knows what he is doing through powerful writing and directing, the film is undeniably a success. It might have genre tropes and clichés, but it uses it cleverly and utilizing them to deliver emotions and key moments as powerful, yet as subtle, and as raw and real as it could. The well- done sound mixing and on-point soundtrack, alongside its wonderful cinematography helps in telling the story and the feeling that go with it with perfection. Each of the cast did well with their performances, especially JC Santos who plays the main protagonist of the film. Dilemma and social issues, as well as personal and emotional issues are tackled and dealt in the movie in unique, raw and unexpected ways. 100 Tula Para Kay Stella is refreshing, surprising and satisfying. Dare I say, 100 Tula Para Kay Stella is one of the all-time best movies from the Philippine Cinema.

One of the best movies I have seen this 2017, 100 Tula Para Kay Stella gives us some lessons about the realities of life as enumerated below:

1.) Our weaknesses can inspire us to discover and hone our strengths.

2.) Our imperfections make us better and stronger persons.

3.) Not all the things that we want, we love and we have been dreaming of, are meant for us. We just need to wait for God's purpose to take its time to reveal the big picture to us.

4.) True love means sacrificing for the good of your loved one.

5.) The best lessons about love are learned after you realized you have lost it.

6.) When you love someone, grab the opportunity to say it right away. It is better to be rejected right away than to lose a loved one because you said I love you, too late.

I must also commend JC Santos and Prince Stefan for the great acting prowess that they have shown in this film. Bella Padilla was also a good inspiration and an effective leading lady as she brought out the best acting from JC Santos.

I think, what highly contributed to the box office success of this film in the Philippines, is the one brain filming attack brilliantly executed by Jason Paul Laxamana, who have vividly, creatively and beautifully wrote and directed this work of art. This goes to show that having the same writer and director in filming can strongly result to quality films.

Ma. Gemma Cruz-Navarro - MOVIEGOERS DREAM CLUB