Tayong Dalawa

SUMMARY:
The teleserye is a story about two men who’ve become friends after a basketball match: JR, who lived in a poverish area, almost living on a day-to-day survival basis and Dave who’s lived on the safety of the confines of his family’s own mansion for all his life.

The two became close and soon finds out that they are both named David Garcia Jr. Later on, as they went off to study in the PMA, they find out their birthday is celebrated successively one day after the other. Things were going quite well until they find out that they both have the same father, David Garcia Sr., and that the two are actually twin brothers, with JR being the son to Marlene Dionisio, the real legal wife by paper and Dave as his son to Ingrid Gracia, the known legal wife.

Things got more twisted though as they fall for the same woman, Audrey, and thereafter finds out about a past…a past when the three of them have already met as young children.

The story continues to have its twists and turns, as illegal selling of firearms enter the life of Marlene’s other son, JR’s brother, Ramon. Rivalry between the two families and between the two brothers ensues, along with the role of Audrey’s father and grandmother in Dave’s family.

REFLECTION:
It’s a story about money, power, caste, crime, friendship and our all time favorite….LOVE.

It has a wonderful portrayal of love. Unlike the many movies that has been played, often focusing on romantic, lustful love, the story was able to show love in different states, with its different faces, under different angles, in different circumstances. The story depicts a relativist’s idea of love. Each of it is love, no matter how contradictory, each of it is true. There’s no saying one’s idea of love is wrong as the story shows down to the very depth of each character’s feelings.

It doesn’tmean that one of them had not loved. Or that one loved less than the other. They just have different perspectives about love as they reflect each face of this wondrous thing. A love that’s possessive (Ingrid), a love that shares (Marlene), a love that sets free (JR), a love for one’s sibling, a love that’s paternal or maternal, a love for a friend, a love purely on the surface, a love that creates, a love that kills and destroys.

The series was also able to tackle some of the questions that other literary pieces have already raised:
Will love justify going against the law? Is blood thicker than water?
Will you die for love? Will you kill for love?
Would you be willing to sacrifice your everything to save the one you love?
Will you against your morals for love?

A masterpiece indeed, it was beautifully crafted. Last time I saw something as good was with Mara Clara teleseries.

It was a bit disappointing though to find out that there was another son in the end, a possibility of a Book Two, which doesn’t really render most series as interesting since viewers would expect the same or something better than the standard that was set by the first book. Good luck to the writers then! :)