But later, we learn that she has a dark past from which she wanted to move on. At first glance, she appears to be the stereotypical “manic pixie dream girl”, a free spirit who simply helps Lio come out of his shell with her ebullient personality. Things took a turn as soon as he meets Shana.
Thus, we begin to understand his caution when meeting strangers and acquaintances. Film viewers themselves experience this as the familiar characters that surround Lio’s life sometimes appear as entirely different persons as a result, Lio is often met with either hostility or ridicule. The cinematography and editing created a somber mood, as if Lio was already used to living in his misery soon we discover why-he struggles to recognize supposedly familiar faces. We traverse the narrative through Lio’s eyes as we are introduced immediately to the world he lives in: he works as a call center agent at a small organization and comes home to his family, composed of his mother and stubborn younger sister.
However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the film offered something more: a complex and intimate story with surprising depth that never lost its grip on reality despite its unique premise. At first glance, the premise seems promising, but despite this, I was expecting to see a conventional love story where romance would be the cure-all for Lio’s face blindness-in short, I was expecting to see a predictable romantic plot. That is, until he meets and falls in love with Shana, a beautiful free spirit who changes his life. Such is the dilemma of our protagonist Lio, who struggles with recognizing faces due to a cognitive disorder called face blindness. Meeting new people is easy but committing them to memory may prove to be more challenging, especially if they have caused you pain in the past. “Yung iba nadaanan ko lang, yung iba, dumaan sandali ,” Shana (Rhian Ramos) remarks, as Lio (JM De Guzman) admires the sea of photographs on her wall.
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