DISCUSSED: Got 2 Believe, Rico Yan, Claudine Barretto, David Pomeranz
Got 2 Believe is a Star Cinema rom-com directed by Olivia Lamasan. It’s also known as the last movie Rico Yan ever made before allegedly succumbing to bangungot in a beach resort in 2002, bangungotbeing that very Filipino phenomenon of the nightmare death (literally).
Of course it was 2002, the deliberate misspelling of the title was a sign of the times — back when some schmuck devised it as the quickest way to make things sound “hip” and “very now,” when ironically, using both terminologies proves it otherwise. The title is derived from that song by David Pomeranz, the quintessential music man for everyone’s prom for the past two decades. This is Star Cinema trying to make David Pomeranz, Mister King and Queen of Hearts to Mister Trendy, without a trace of irony. It is from this title that the viewers are preconditioned for the modern adaptation of the rom-com genre, which just like David Pomeranz, has been guilty of schmaltz and cheese for a number of decades as well.
