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Joyce (Mylene Dizon) finds out that she is on the brink of death. Her cancer has spread to other organs of her body and there is nothing much that can be done. What does a person in the prime of her life do in this instance? How does one face death? How can one make her dying a graceful exit? Joyce does not want to be a burden to anyone and so she makes a list of things to do – from the more mundane ones, like packing her things in the office, making funeral arrangements and “shopping” for a casket, to the more personal ones, like telling her mom and finding Emil, her long lost ex-boyfriend. Her Post-It’s, things to do that must have added to a hundred, are taken off the wall one by one, except for the difficult task of telling her mom.
A multiple award-winner at the 2008 Cinemalaya Film Festival and the winner of the 2008 Pusan International Film Festival’s prestigious Audience Award in the New Currents competition, 100 marks an assured directorial debut by Chris Martinez, a screenwriter by trade. The film invites comparisons to Rob Reiner’s THE BUCKET LIST (2007); however, 100 is a completely different creature, one that approaches depths that the previous film could never have imagined. Chris Martinez’s script hits much closer to home, moving away from crazy fantasies and approaching death with some measure of practicality. Whereas THE BUCKET LIST was all about escapism, a grand journey of wish fulfillment, 100 instead celebrates life, all the mortal pleasures that are already within reach. Joyce’s journey is much more personal, and ultimately, a lot more compelling.
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