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Movie Review - Talk Back and You're Dead

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How sweet the thought of being mutually in love with someone! Admittedly, experiencing the so-called "true love" at such a young age is something that each one of us wishes for. Almost all of us will fall in love as we go through the teenage stage of our lives ”if not at least get infatuated ”and that is something natural. This movie is about how two young individuals fell in love with each other despite their backgrounds. "Talk Back and You're Dead  was originally an online novel written by Alesana Marie. It was first published and posted on an online writing community called Wattpad on March 26, 2011 and was later published and mass-produced by PSICOM. The book ”which got the attention of the general public, specifically the teens” also did not escape the eyes of interested film producers, which led to its movie adaptation. The film was released on August 20, 2014 and was directed by Andoy Ranay under Viva Films and Skylight Films. The movie was majorly a mish-mash of scenes, jumping from one situation to another, with a lot of kilig-moments inserted in between. It tried to cramp a 30-chapter book into a two-hour film, which, of course, was not enough, thereby resulting to the overall rushed feel of the movie. Subsequently, it tried to feed the audience more than they could accept. Due to the fast pace of the movie, the audience was bombarded with countless information and revelations in order to build in their minds the framework of the whole story. It showcased the typical Filipino-style conflicts that are often seen in our own televisions every night in teleseryes, wherein the typical cool guy falls head over heels in love with a girl with an exceptional beauty but has a deep dark secret, family and business rivalry, having a supposed amnesia from the beginning, parent disapproval, and arranged marriages. Ideally, in order for a film to be a great success, it must present something unusual to its target audience. Peop

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