Pink Crimson

Crying my Eyes Out

06-07-2009 Sunday

I'll say this straight out, I despise Telenovelas, Koreanovelas, Japanovelas, all those craps boring people watch on TV at night or some, in the afternoon. For me, it's disgusting and it's stereotyped. Want proof? Don't you see? The story lines are all the same, love story boy meets rich girl, a bitchy but gorgeous chick comes between them, someone died, someone get kidnapped, someone screw this whore..oops. There's nothing new. The worst part is when those stupid TV channels ran out of craps to show on TV, they stoop lower by doing a terrible remake of this film from the 80's, or this equally crappy Korean show. God, I'd rather turn off my TV and get hammered elsewhere on a cold, boring night.

Those are the reasons why I don't watch TV often. However, a certain show caught my attention. GMA 7 is making another big deal out of this Japanese show '1 Liter of Tears'.

It's not the advertisements or comments about it that made me want to watch it because those were, without a doubt, exaggerated to attract innocent people to watch. It's the story itself. I have another thing to say straight out; my weakness is a good tearjerker film or show about death. Geez, you don't want to sit beside me while watching Titanic or A Walk To Remember because I'll probably keep on bugging you for a tissue or you'll simply be annoyed by my loud sniffs.

Instead of watching it on TV and be disappointed at how poorly it was dubbed, I bought a DVD copy in Quiapo, slipped it on my DVD player, pushed play and watched it for the next one hour or so. It has 11 episodes so obviously I'm not done yet. Hmm, let's see, as I'm writing this, I just finished watching the 9th episode. I'm 2 episodes away and guess what, the trash can beside me is almost overflowing with crumpled tissue. Christ, I was crying my eyes out since episode 1. I'm disgustingly hooked to it.

1 Liter of Tears in spite of having a cheesy title which I honestly did not like, will definitely tug at your heartstrings and bring out waterworks from your eyes. It is a story about hope, life, battling with a sickness and acceptance that death is not far beyond, that death, just like life, is a reality. It is about having the courage to face the future that will never be. A great story based on real life even though I think that the love interest of Aya is just made up for TV to spice up the show. Besides, a telenovela wouldn't be complete without a love story right? Good thing the love story part did not suck. Applause. Good thing they chose an actress who is actually cute and doesn't look like most Japanese actresses. Another applause.