Around Liverpool Sid was known and respected as a proper football man, a proper fella, old-school. Viva Entertainment released the full trailer of their upcoming movie, “Sid and Aya: Not a Love Story.” Even with the warning in the title, the trailer will make you see sparks fly between the couple. Sidney 'Sid' Phillips is the main antagonist of Toy Story. He is mentioned by Buzz in Toy Story 2. He also makes a cameo in Toy Story 3. He is the only person who knows toys are alive. Sid used to be Andy's sociopathic neighbor until the latter moved near the end of the film. Sid was introduced. 235.4k Followers, 2,157 Following, 1,436 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from SID (@sidthe3rd).
DIRECTED by: Irene Villamor Sid and Aya (Not A Love Story) is a film about exactly what it sounds like: the relationship between Sid (Dingdog Dantes) and Aya (Anne Curtis), but Sid is really the protagonist. He is an insomniac stockbroker with a potential pill problem.
When he can’t sleep, he frequents a coffee shop in his neighborhood where he meets Aya, an employee. The film begins with a voiceover from Sid explaining all of the reasons he cannot sleep, and one of them is, of course, “her.” The film then shows a flashback of a scene wherein Aya tells Sid she loves him through the window.
Later on, when we see this shot in the cinematic present, it turns out that Aya’s affection was only to win a bet. She tells Sid outside the shop that the first of the employees to say “I love you” to him wins the bet. His internal monologue dictates that he isn’t into getting to know people he doesn’t “need,” but something about Aya compels him and he invites her to spend some time with him, but she won’t do it for free. He offers her $1,000 an hour for her conversation when he cannot sleep.
Stylistically the film is quite dynamic. For me, coming from a western context, steeped in mostly western films, Sid and Aya in interesting to watch because of its breaking of the 180-degree rule, as well as its frequently changing shot scale. The film is also auditorily interesting as characters frequently switch between Tagalog and English.
These two aspects create a cinematic dynamism that goes beyond that of the film’s plot. Aya sees right through Sid’s semi-fake deep bullshit.
