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Raquel (Patricia Javier) is a successful doctor at a hospital who has
vowed to remain a virgin until her wedding night - and since she has just
broken up with her boyfriend Mohan - who is still stalking her - and is totally
not on the lookout for a new man, wedding night might be quite some time
away now ... until
she meets Brian (Raymond Bagatsing), a patient of hers who has come to the
hospital after having overdosed on antidepressants, and before she knows
it, she has fallen for his charms, and only a short time later, they have
already gotten married. In their wedding night though, she has to realize
she isn't all that much into sex, at least not into the kind of rough sex
he prefers - but still he does her three times that night. It actually
takes Brian quite some time to notice he and his wife are sexually incompatible, so
he even tries a bit of kinky cosplay - but when he in a gorilla mask shags her
in a vampire mask, that really freaks her out, and she temporarily leaves
him - but returns after he has sweettalked her, and once back she can even
forgive him that he tried to rape her friend when she wore the vampire
mask from that fateful night and Brian thought it was Raquel giving
cosplay another try. Ultimately, Raquel and Brian's relationship and
sexlife becomes a happy one, and she gets pregnant from him. But with
pregnancy, Raquel's sexual urges die down while his are only increased -
until he brutally beats up and rapes her and she loses the baby in the
process - but drags him to court where even his politically powerful
sister cannot help him, and he is sentenced to life in prison. While he's
in the slammer, she divorces him. A rather sensationalist title
hides nothing but a very boring movie: the first half of this film of
almost 2 hours plays like your standard soap opera in hospital settings,
with little to distinguish itself from the stuff you can catch every day
on TV (least of all aesthetically), and when the sex-aspects of the story
finally set in with Raquel and Brian's wedding night (pretty much in the
middle of the movie), writer/director Neal 'Buboy' Dan makes the point
time and again that Raquel doesn't like rough sex, which is only
acceptable because actress Patricia Javier is topless in all of those
scenes and looks really good that way - though I'm sure that was not the
focus of these scenes. Then, in the final 15 minutes, the film turns into
a courtroom drama (and not a very good one I might add), trying again to
hammer home the film's message ... ah, and there's another problem of the
film, its message: The film says "marital rape is wrong" time
and again, a message I 100% support, but that marital rape is wrong is
already signified by the word rape, isn't it? Do we really need a
film of almost 2 hours about it to explain this to us? The answer of
course is no, especially when it totally overshadows the other
message the film is sending (though maybe unintentionally), which says
"by God, kids, have premarital sex so as to avoid disappointment/disaster after you have tied the knot" - and even
though this message is not very popular with the conservative folks among
us, it's on closer inspection perfectly reasonable and another message I
can support 100%.
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