Finally, after a few months of waiting, Rent : The Movie was shown here in Manila, but only in a few chosen cinemas. I was informed by my friend Rico that the movie was currently being shown in Greenbelt 3 since the start of the week. Since I have a busy schedule for the rest of the weekdays, I've decided to watch it last Saturday with two of my friends. I had our seats reserved so that we wouldn't go in to the trouble of lining up just to get our tickets.

We got to the cinema 20 minutes earlier than the scheduled screening so that we could catch some movie trailers (yes aside from watching the movie itself, I love watching trailers of up coming movies). It turns out…there was none. Why? I don't know. When the cinema dimmed to darkness, the music of the Rent's famous song Season's of Love began. Oh! I forgot… Rent's movie poster outside the cinema says, "SINGING IS ALLOWED". So I asked, "WHERE'S THE MIC?"… lols…

The movie is about friendship, love and death incorporated with the ideals of bohemian lifestyle. It tries to show a snapshot of the taboo lives concerning gay and lesbian relationships as well as the issue of AIDS of 5 people who lives in a tent city who couldn't even pay for their rent.

The movie ran for about two hours, I have to be honest that even though I find the move as a good movie (or play) there are some dragging scenes or too melodramatic instances in the movie that made me yawn (and a lot more yawning for my other friend… the other seemed to be enjoying it a lot).

After the movie, my friend asked me how come there are people who can live like those people in the movie, living with almost nothing, being slaves of their arts and having a carefree life of sex, drugs and alcohol. I just said that it was the ideals of the bohemian lifestyle, a choice of life that not everybody can agree with, but I also said, we can always choose a carefree life no matter what lifestyle we choose, bohemian or not.

"There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss… No other road, no other way…no day but today. " – Rent