Hello, Love, Goodbye (Pinoy Movie)
Synopsis:
Joy is a spunky, down-on-her-luck millennial who works as a domestic helper in Hong Kong. She excels at her profession and enjoys the company of many other strong domestic servants, but she intends to leave the city shortly.
Joy encounters Filipino bartender Ethan on her way to attaining her ambitions. Ethan is a lovely playboy who has already established himself in Hong Kong. He will formally become a city resident in a few years. Ethan, who has spent his entire avoiding obligations, now wants to devote himself to a profession and his family (who also reside in Hong Kong). Joy and Ethan quickly become friends. Against the muck and grind of Hong Kong, the two become each other's joy.
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Plot: (With spoilers)
Ethan, played by Alden Richards, a Filipino Bartender in Hong Kong is someone who is carefree and is termed as a playboy by his friends.
Ethan starts to pursue Joy.
Joy's family background shows that Joy's Father had Joy's mother marry a guy from Hong Kong so she can later become a citizen and help the rest of her family come to Hong Kong. The guy who Joys mother is married to is abusive to her but Joys mother does not plan on leaving him anytime soon as she felt betrayed by Joys Father.
Joy has two siblings who rely on the money she sends home for their school and other expenses.
In Hong Kong Joy has two friends who are also domestic workers and all three of them are quite close. They sell items illegally as a side hustle to earn more money. In the start of the movie we see that Joy's cousin also comes to Hong Kong as a domestic worker.
Joy only has 4 more months left in her contract with her employer but her employer wants to fire her as she is having financial problems but when Joy tells her she is ready to work even at half salary her employer agrees.
With so much going on in her life Joy feels she doesn't have time for love but as Ethan keeps on pursuing her she eventually starts to fall for him.
Ethan's family background shows that his mother had died and his father came to Hong Kong became a bar owner and a resident of the country. During this time Ethan fell in love with a girl named Tanya. She wanted to move to US and Ethan left everything to move with her but soon she broke up with him and Ethan was deported from the states for over staying.
Ethan's brother Edward resented him for leaving his family and leaving all the responsibility on him.
Despite everything they both fall for each other but with Joy leaving for Canada will their love survive?
Review:
This movie was recommended to me by my filipin friend and co worker, and I loved it. The film is for when you want to watch a light yet meaningful romcom. It showcases the struggles of people who leave their home country for a better life and how they find love amongst all the chaos.
The story takes place in Hong Kong and the aesthetics make the movie even better. We see a young immigrant woman's struggle to follow her dream in a foreign country while supporting her family back home and carrying emotional burden of her family's issues.
A man trying to pickup and get his life back on track again, while everyone around him has moved ahead.
Both meet and fall in love, but what's next? Joy has to make a choice where she has to choose to stay with Ethan or get her dream job in Canada for the life she dreams of.
I love how it wasn't a typical kind of happy ending.
Love isn't about giving up something for someone else. Sacrifice entails the loss of something, whereas love does not. It's all about who you are at the end of the day.
Joy must convey this to Ethan, as well as the implications of not pursuing her dream, in all her wisdom. Ethan, thankfully, finally understands and is able to do what only love can: let go. Love stops being love the moment you try to cling on to it.
We're delivering a sharp and not-so-pleasant representation of life for many immigrants striving to survive. Some people are capable of doing so. Some are unable to do so like Joy's cousin who goes back to Philippines, admitting that this wasn't what she wanted.
As an international student in a foreign country this film made me feel seen, the lesson could be that you can only properly look after yourself and not lose sight of your own dreams if you take care of yourself.
If you persevere, you will have gained more profound wisdom about life than most people will ever have.
Hope you enjoy the movie as much as I did!
Thanks to my friend for introducing this movie to me!
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