Seasons Review: The Filipino romantic drama film is directed by Easy Ferrer, DGPI and the screenplay is written by Dwein Baltazar. Executive produced by Lily Y. Monteverde, the film has a runtime of about 1 hour and 48 minutes. It stars Lovi Poe, Carlo Aquino, Sarah Edwards and others.
The story follows two best friends, Charlie and Kurt, who decide to find themselves a partner through each other’s suggested dating methods. However, what they don’t realise is the gravity of their own friendship that has grown to become much more and makes them wonder if it could be turned into love.
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Seasons Review
First of all, the way the description of the film reads, “two best friends make a deal to take risks and look for love again — but they might just find it in each other”, is just deceptive. Right from the start, it’s visible that Kurt has feeling towards Charlie but she has friend-zoned him completely and doesn’t see them getting romantically involved anytime. Until she casually reveals to a group of friends that they had sex once when they were completely drunk but didn’t think much of it.
Yet they are best friends with no strings attached after that is quite strange to know. Moving forward, they are always cribbing about their bad dating experiences and decide to take a chance by expanding their vision. So Charlie decides to meet people around her, like finally going out for at least one date with the guy who has been asking her out. And Kurt decides to give online dating apps a chance since he doesn’t believe in it. But the weird thing is that Charlie is the one handling the profile and shortlisting the girls, even going on a date with them before introducing them to Kurt.
But then she finds the girl in real life, Jane, who runs a bakery. Seeing how Charlie has been going out with Hans and having a good time, Kurt decides to meet Jane. Surprisingly, all goes well and they even start dating but that’s the moment when Charlie realises her feelings for her best friend. When the one that she was taking for granted and bossing around starts to make a healthy boundary, she loses it and becomes the kind of needy girl best friend that every girlfriend absolutely hates.
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If the plot so far hasn’t made you feel uncomfortable or weirded out yet, then you should know how Charlie reacts to the news of Kurt thinking of proposing to Jane. She turns the moment around to bring the focus on her and says, ‘I am pregnant’. How can one think of blurting this out when your best friend shares his feelings for the person he loves? And it’s not like she corrects her mistake the next day, but takes him along on a trip to find the non-existent man who made her ‘pregnant’. Thinking that being attached to the hip would make him marry her instead.
This is just 5% of everything that Charlie does and makes her look absolutely calculative. Even the start of their friendship is a manipulative move where she literally forces the poor boy to be with her all the time. What’s more ridiculous is the ideology that she learned from her mother. She categorises the boys she met into three categories – a season, a reason and a lifetime.
A season is a relationship which ends within a few months (also because of Charlie’s immature actions). A reason is a relationship with a guy who fooled around with other people while being with her (giving her a reason to be wary of dating anyone easily). And lifetime is what she is seeking and starts to think that Kurt is her life partner. And if this makes you wonder why the film is called Seasons then the answer is quite clear.
Despite all the desperate efforts by Charlie, Kurt chooses to marry someone else. Thus the whole period with him is termed plural since it went on for many years. And just because of this ending, watching the film till the end was somewhat justified. If they had ended up together in a relationship, I would have thrown my hands. It looks like a recurrent theme in recent Filipino films on Netflix, like in Missed Connection, where the female lead is quite delusional and makes up so many lies, just to get the man they like but gets rejected eventually.
Rating: 1.5/5
Seasons is currently streaming on Netflix.
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