The Kiss that Sparked it All

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With a rough shove, Valor found herself crashing down onto the cold concrete.
All she had wanted was a glimpse of the world beyond her small bubble. Was
that such a
crime?
Had she erred right from the start by leaving her quaint hometown?
Otherwise, why would she now be lost in this unfamiliar city, clueless about the
way back
home?
Valor regretted.
The latter part of the story is about Valor's quest to find her way home — a
concept that might baffle many city-dwelling college students today. How could
someone not know their way back?
But for a girl like Valor, who had grown up in a quaint, technologically untouched
fishing village, it was a stark reality.
The man had lured her out of her village with promises of adventure, only to
abandon her in the sprawling metropolis.
It was unfair to claim he had taken Valor away solely for a taste of novelty;
perhaps, amid the natural purity of the village, he had genuinely felt a fleeting
impulse for the naive, passionate girl.
They might have shared a sort of hazy love story.
But once engulfed by the city’s splendor, that hazy love became a burden.
He didn’t need someone as clumsy and unsophisticated as Valor by his side, and
she, knowing nothing of the city’s ways, became an encumbrance.
The story ended with an open ending — whether Valor ever made it back to her
beloved village, whether she reconciled with her best friend, were all left to the
interpretation of the audience.
Ivy believed Valor never returned. Had she made it back, her face wouldn't still
bear the
streaks of fresh tears.
As the film's ending credits rolled and the lights brightened, the audience
remained silent for a long while. They had come for light entertainment but had
been served a tale laden with sorrow.
The director had said that making this film took a long time, not just in securing
funding but also in telling a story drawn from real life a real story that had
unfolded in a remote fishing village.
Yet, they all lamented the uncertainty of Valor’s fate, both in the story and in
reality.
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Such tales were all too common in that village. Valor, left adrift in the big city, was
one of the lucky ones, as her only trouble was to find her way home.
Many others girls had been lured into nightmarish hell from which there was no
escape.
The original script given to the director had been even more harrowing. But from
the onset, he wanted to infuse the story with a touch of commercial appeal and to
do something for that remote village.
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The initial version was award-bait,
but in this era of fast consumption,
few were willing to spend two hours
in a theater immersed in such a
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The story began with a dreamy tale

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of young love, capturing everyone's
attention, only to reveal the harsh
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Was Valor wrong to seek out the city? No.
Was the man wrong for having a fling with her? No, not in itself.
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But his fault lay in recklessly taking
Valor out of her village, only to cruelly
discard her in a city where she
wandered, lost and alone. The
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In the movie, Valor’s love interest never even had a name, referred to simply as
he
placeholder for the countless others like him.
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