Star na si Van Damme Stallone
Plot / Synopsis
Based on a real-life characters and events, this tale is about Nadia, a single mom in Bocaue, Bulacan, who goes through the trials and tribulations of raising Vanvan - a child with Down Syndrome. As a mother, one is expected to give one hundred percent, but when one is raising a special child, you still have to give so much more. That’s why when Vanvan wished one day to become and artista, Nadia knows she has to make ends - and dreams - meet.
Spanning more than two decades of personal accounts, this story offers vignettes of Vanvan’s life through the eyes of the people closest to him: his mother Nadia when he was a newborn and the story of how he got his unique name; his brother Tano during his childhood, when he got his first lead role and gave it up for the sake of the ‘greater good’; his uncle Jim when he reached his teenage years and began making his acting career happen; and his own perspective as an adult when he finally, in a manner of speaking, became a full-pledged TV personality.
This drama-comedy asks that soap-opera question: Sino ang totoong baliw? To which the film answers: everyone. Because all of us, in varying degrees, are prepared to do the craziest things fir the ones whom we love the most.
Source: CineFilipino Page
Watch Star na si Van Damme Stallone Official movie trailer here:
Star na si Van Damme Stallone Film Trailer Review
What can be said about the Star na si Van Damme Stallone (2016) official movie trailer? Well, it really looks interesting and good. The Facebook page information about the film's genre is categorized as a light, heartwarming, drama, comedy film in which I think delivers from this trailer alone. There is something about this film that made me smile and sad at the same time which I can probably attribute to the film featuring and focusing on two talents with down syndrome, Paolo Pingol and Jadford Dilanco.
There is something in me that say that this is somehow a cheap way to win the hearts of the potential movie audience, but there is a part of me that says that I am glad that the film used REAL people with disability; a movie about down syndrome performed by real people with down syndrome. This is probably why its movie audience will oversee the 'acting' of the individuals with down syndrome and look at the bigger picture of it, a mothers love for her son no matter whatever condition he has; to support and make his dream come true no matter the odds. I just feel that the trailer may have shown more than it should. Well, it did show who the main protagonist wants to have as a leading lady, so that has somehow spoiled the reveal. I wish a more properly cut trailer that teases rather than spoil the major plot points has been considered. It is a good thing that this trailer set me in a good mood as these kinds of things usually agitates me. With that small nitpick, I still think that it is highly worth the see.
