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About suicide? Piolo, Toni clarify cryptic 'Last Night' trailer

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<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:50.0% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BZIvPkvgF2C/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Star Magic (@starmagicphils)</a> on <time dateTime="2017-09-17T09:07:50+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Sep 17, 2017 at 2:07am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" defer="" src="http://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>In an arresting scene from the first trailer of &quot;Last Night,&quot; Piolo Pascual, as his character Mark, stands on top of Manila&#x27;s Jones Bridge, suggesting an attempt to take his own life. </p><p>To add to the particularly dramatic moment, his co-star, Toni Gonzaga, as Carmina, the woman who falls in love with Mark, is confusingly hanging from a sign board, pleading for his help, seemingly showing that she tried to do the same as well. </p><p>It bore more questions than answers about the movie, and heavily hints that the Joyce Bernal-directed feature will tackle the controversial topic of suicide head on. </p><p>But in a blogger&#x27;s conference held Sunday afternoon, Pascual explained that while the thought of committing suicide does hound his troubled character, their movie does not encourage the act. </p><p>On the contrary, he argued, it forwards a more positive message of hope. Waxing poetic, he said: &quot;There are many reasons to die, but there can only be one reason to live so iyon ang focus namin.&quot; </p><p>Gonzaga, who was with Pascual for the conference, added: &quot;We do not want to focus on death, we want to focus on life and love.&quot; </p><p>Bernal, who was also with her two stars, refused to give a definitive answer. &quot;Ayaw naming sabihin na ito iyong problema ninyo. Ang sinasabi lang namin ay these are the stories ng mga taong katulad niyo pero iba iyong perspective nila,&quot; she said. </p><p>Producer Neil Arce pointed out that he will not make a movie that his kids would not be able to watch. </p><p>Bela Padilla, the scriptwriter, shared that she wants people to realize that there&#x27;s always hope in life. &quot;Hindi totoo ang concept ng walang nang pagasa,&quot; she claimed. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2-5BerbNjOE" width="560"></iframe></figure><p>In &quot;Last Night,&quot; Pascual and Gonzaga portray people who, they said, are in their &quot;darkest&quot; and &quot;lowest&quot; point of their lives. </p><p>After meeting each other by chance, they decide to propose that they spend their &quot;last night&quot; with each other. </p><p>The movie will premiere in cinemas nationwide on September 27. </p>

<p>In an arresting scene from the first trailer of Star Cinema's ''Last Night,'' Piolo Pascual, as his character Mark, stands on top of Manila's Jones Bridge, highly suggesting an attempt to take his own life. </p>

In an arresting scene from the first trailer of Star Cinema's ''Last Night,'' Piolo Pascual, as his character Mark, stands on top of Manila's Jones Bridge, highly suggesting an attempt to take his own life.