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Straight to the Heart: Giving love a bad name

18 Friday Mar 2016

Posted by cinetactic in Movie Reviews

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Angel Aquino, CineFilipino, comedy, drama, film review, gay, Gwen Zamora, independent film, Miko Matos, Movie review, nico antonio, philippines, Pinky Amador, romance, Vincent de Jesus

By Heinrich Domingo

With a badly written screenplay, Straight to the Heart was unable to hold together the many sub-stories it wishes to narrate. From HIV awareness campaign to gender fluidity argument, the film superficially discusses its advocacies and then immediately proceeds in tackling another topic. In the end, it became a mishmash of unexamined themes left lying on the floor with the filmmakers hoping that the audience picks them up before leaving the cinema.

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