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Movie Review: Write About Love

"Write About Love," a film inside a film, explores the stereotypes that
haunt the romantic genre as two authors collaborate to complete a screenplay
about love. Unfortunately, the film spends far too much time in the fantasy
world of its second narrative, totally overlooking the development of its
main plot. Miles Ocampo, a young female novelist, is nearing the end of
her first screenplay, "Just Us." However, her proposal is rejected because it
is considered too conventional. An experienced male writer has been tasked
with assisting her in rewriting and finishing it in 30 days (Rocco Nacino).
The two have opposing personalities, both of them have challenging figures.
But when they spend long days and nights working together, they both have
an imaginative middle ground that enables them to discover a love and
appreciation that they were not there at first.
It's ironic that "Write About Love" speaks about writing a wonderful love
story while under-developing two other novels. The main plot suffers the
most because there was not only a serious lack of chemistry between Miles
Ocampo and Rocco Nacino, but the narrative's main concepts were
laughably incomplete. And it actually had more tropes than the fictitious tale
they were working on. For example, there's this sudden emergence of
someone appearing out of nowhere, dying as a result of a critical illness, sort
of cliched madness. The only saving grace for the film was its supporting
cast of the fantastic actors, Joem Bascon and Yeng Constantino. We're not
going to argue that the film was emotionally climatic, but it was chaotic,
vague, not worth the ride to get there. "Write About Love" thought, at the
end of the day, that it was more betting on endless quotations than having a
very fascinating plot. It came off as a film attempting to look and be cool.