![]() Instead, the film features more muted colors. The Breakup Playlist does away with gloss. Villegas, who also serves as the film’s cinematographer, keeps his visuals consistent with the sober atmosphere he has employed. Their joy, sadness, and anger are properly motivated. In other words, the film’s characters do not come off as fictional trifles. In doing so, he adds weight and substance to the eventual separation, displaying how something so seemingly perfect can degrade into something so tarnished and painful. Villegas concentrates on peppering his scenes with lovely details that portray the bliss of falling in love. In a way, by revealing very early on the pain and eventual angst of its protagonists, the film does away with its reliance on plot and instead concentrates on gestures and signals that magnify emotions. The film starts with the breakup, continues 3 years after with the ex-lovers’ awkward reunion, before diving straight into the colorful history of the ill-fated romance. However, it is structured in a way that the elements of the formula are broken down. The film still dwells on the story of a boy and a girl who fall in love, fall out of love, and reunite just before the end credits roll. Backdropped against all the other market-driven love stories its studio has been producing recently, it feels strangely out of place despite how adamantly familiar its plot is. ![]() The Breakup Playlist is one fascinating experiment, hiding in the garb of a traditionally crafted romance. ![]() The very first instance of music here only happens right after the devastating breakup, where the boy, now onstage, is struggling through a heartfelt ballad while his very recent ex-girlfriend, teary-eyed and on the verge of surrender, watches on.īoth former lovers are clearly heartbroken, scarred by a breakup that the film has yet to explore. Gone also is the saccharine and usually manipulative musical score that needlessly foreshadows the escapist nature of most romantic films. (WATCH: Piolo Pascual, Sarah Geronimo in ‘Breakup Playlist’ trailer) Instead, we hear and eventually see a couple, Gino (Piolo Pascual) and Trixie (Sarah Geronimo), in the middle of a heated argument, one that will eventually end in an abrupt separation. Gone are the predictable voiceovers that detail the specific facet of love that will be the theme of the film. MANILA, Philippines – The opening of Dan Villegas’ The Breakup Playlist is atypical of a Star Cinema-produced romance.
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