Film Review: 100: A celebration of life
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By Anna Valmero
IF you only have 100 days left, what will you do to spend it?
This is the bomb question that independent, successful career woman Joyce (played by Mylene Dizon) faced after being diagnosed twice with inoperable cancer and that she has three months to live.
Learning this, Joyce resigned from work and embarked on a mission to accomplish 100 things she has never done within the time left to her. Helping her in the mission is long-time pal Ruby (played by Eugene Domingo), while Joyce’s mother (played by Tessie Tomas) added several tasks to the list in hopes of helping find a cure and make her final days memorable.
Some would say the plot of the Cinemalaya film “100” is similar to that of “The Bucket List” starred by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. At some point, yes, but the local film hits it closer to home and takes a youthful stance on how to approach death.
100 takes on the simplicity of Filipino daily life and finds both humor and tragedy in it.
