Mistress movies

Today, i had a movie marathon.  Thank God I'm off :)  I watched two movies about mistresses.  Yes, mistresses.  Mistress as in the another one.  Mistress as in the other woman.  Mistress as in the marriage breaker.  Mistress as in the family wrecker.  Woaaah heavy!  Anyway, I watched these two movies - Etiquette for Mistresses and The Lover Affair.  I actually refused to watch these two films in the movie house because I do not like movies giving glory to mistresses.  But to my friends prodding and convincing, I watched at home since it is my off day today.

Etiquette for Mistresses is a movie about five types of mistresses.  The usual cheeky and rough mistress, the richy rich mistress, the true-love mistress, the perfect mistress and the newbie mistress.  All these five have different personalities but they were all in a sort of a network for mistresses.  The usual cheeky and rough mistress is Chloe (played by Claudine Barreto).  She is the typical mistress fighter who did come to the house of her lover only to find out that her lover has another mistress.  The richy rich mistress is the richest of them all because she is a mistress of a mall tycoon.  Because her lover is rich, she spends too much and is being spoiled of material things.  She is Charley (played by Cheena Crab).   Stella (played by Iza Calzado) is the true-love mistress because until the last breath, her lover chose to stay with her even fleeing abroad with his mistress just to hide from his wife and because he truly loves her.  The perfect mistress is Georgia (played by Kris Aquino) who also happened to train the newbie mistress, Ina (played by Kim Chu).  She states all the etiquette throughout the movie but in the end she said, Find the courage to leave him while you still can.  And of course, the newbie mistress who in the end chose to be unselfish and found her real love.

One common thing about them is they all dreamed to  be the first wife, which may never really come true because the first is always first in any angle we look at.  We cannot judge anyone but my opinion is  that mistresses should learn how to let go of their married lovers especially the moment they have learned that their lover is a married man, let go!

The Love Affair is about a married couple who is on their way to their 25th anniversary but the husband discovers that his wife is having an affair with his best friend.  Vince (played by Richard Gomez) is a surgeon who met accidentally, Adrianne (played by Bea Alonzo) who is a lawyer and who also just had her heart broken.  She was later on consulted by Vince to file an annulment of his  marriage with Trisha (played by Dawn Zulueta).  Adrianne and Vince had good times together naming their sailing team as "team sawi" (team heartbroken).  The weekly meetings and coincidental meetings made them closer to each other that made them fall for each other.  Adrianne became the mistress of Vince.  Trisha fought not only for her family but for her love of Vince.  Vince soon realized that he loves her more than Adrianne and decided to keep the family.  The tagline of this movie is "does getting hurt give you the right to hurt back?"

To answer the tagline, No, not anyone has the right to hurt back but human as we are we tend to retaliate every time we get hurt but the losing end is always our family especially the children.  The most important thing is the support both of the wife and the mistress.  Supporting the wife during troubled marriage is very important for emotional anchor.  She has to get herself back together to be strong for her children and to take back what is hers.  On the other hand, the mistress should have good support of friends and family who would tell her that she is loved.  Friends or people around the mistress should also be brave enough and bold enough to even hit her just to wake her up to the truth.  Just like what one of Adrianne's friends in the movie.  This I think made her decide to let go of the lover.  There is dignity in the wife holding on for the love of her family but there is also dignity in the mistress letting go of a lover.

Indeed, holding on and letting go both take courage, strong will and decision.