NETFLIX’s new movie, My Amanda, stars Alessandra De Rossi and Piolo Pascual as two lifelong friends catching up with each other’s lives. It follows the pair as they share their secrets and bare their souls to one another, sometimes through laughs and other times through tears.
As you might imagine, there is never much going on. Most of the film follows them as they reminisce, get on each other’s nerves, argue, laugh or cry. They then move to a new location and do the same thing. Rinse and repeat.
However, even if the pacing is rather relaxed, there’s a fair bit of substance to their conversations that help keep one’s interest. Amanda’s life of late has been less than ideal, and the only one who ever understand her is Pascual’s TJ, her forever friend. Much is told from TJ’s point of view, with him narrating his thoughts on Amanda and their relationship.
"My Amanda" is also an examination of relationships. It looks art how they are kept and how they are broken, and at what really goes into it and the toll and rewards of having one.
On the other hand, it highlights the fact that everyone needs a best friend. That one person in the world that will listen to you and understand you, and someone who knows when to back you up or set you straight. That one person who will get in trouble with you and who will bail you out as well, and someone who you would bail out in return.
Behind all of that is the subtle question of whether a man and a woman can be true friends but not romantically involved? And would it be worth the risk to trade one relationship for the other?
All in all, it is a solid debut for De Rossi as both writer and director.
"My Amada" is now streaming on NETFLIX.
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