History Film / TheGifted

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-->''"Some people work harder than others. Some have it, some don't. Then there are the very few ones who are just born with it. They are the gifted."''\\
- '''Trailer opening narration'''

'''''The Gifted''''' is a [[BlackComedy dark comedy]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Filipino film]]. Produced by Viva Films and directed by Chris Martinez, it details the rivalry between two abnormally smart girls from different walks of life - Zoe Tuazon, who comes from an extremely affluent family, and Aica Tabayoyong, who comes from a lower-class family.

No relation to [[Series/TheGifted the TV show of the same name]].

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!!The following tropes include:
* AllTheOtherReindeer: Both Aica and Zoe are ostracized by their classmates.
** This also applies to [[spoiler:The author of the gifted ''The Gifted'', Marco in his childhood. According to Micah and Joey, he was ostracized not for his smarts but by his bad behavior and all the embarrassing things their fictional counterparts experienced was Marco's. Also Micah and Joey has a fire-forged friendship in real life.]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The black birth mark on Marco's face. [[spoiler:It was actually much worse in his childhood that ''The Gifted'' is loosely based on and contributed to his outcast nature. It also served as an inspiration for Mark's disfigurement (note how it's on the same part of Marco's face) towards the end of the part of the book he reads in the book-signing.]]
* BrainlessBeauty: Mark is hopelessly dim-witted requires tutoring from both Aica and Zoe to pass from both back in high school.
* FramingDevice: Most of the movie's events actually exist within a novel in the real world.
* FunWithAcronyms: Zoe's name stands for Zelda Olicia Eloise.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: Mark and Aica seem to be this.]]
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: The premise of the film suggests this is Aica and Zoe's situation being the top two students their batch. They have nobody aside from each other. Aica's looks and Zoe's weight doesn't help but certain defining moments in their childhood led to their isolation from the rest of their class.
* InsufferableGenius: Zoe was a valedictorian of her previous school and mocks her peers for being below her intellectually. However she is ''that'' smart, being a consistent candidate for clinching the valedictorian honor in her batch in high school. A high school for gifted people that is. And she managed to admitted to an Ivy League school in the US and became a reputable neurosurgeon.
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: Post-timeskip, Aica is light while Zoe is dark.
* MrFanservice: Mark has been able to win over the affection of both Aica and Zoe in first sight since high school.
* MsFanservice: Aica and Zoe after their surgeries make them impeccably beautiful.
* RichBitch: Zoe. She gets to eat an entire ''lechon''[[note]]Filipino suckling pig[[/note]] to herself and says her parents don't work but only invest. Her family even bribes her school with a box full of gold bars to make her the high school valedictorian.
* ShirtlessScene: Mark has one towards the end.
* SignificantDoubleCasting: Sam Milby plays both Marco, the book author and Mark a hunk who became a classmate of Aica and Zoe in Marco's book. This suggest that Mark is an AuthorAvatar of Marco. [[spoiler:This is confirmed in TheStinger where Marco rewrites his actual childhood experiences as ''The Gifted'']].
* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Marco goes to his car after the book signing, only to be confronted by his ex-classmates Micah and Joey, who reveal that he derived events from their childhood for ''The Gifted''. Upset at their depictions in the novel, Micah and Joey beat up Marco with a copy of the book.]]
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Marco, whose narration of his book of the same name provides plays out in the film, claims that the story is entirely fictional, [[spoiler:when it turns out that he was inspired by events from his childhood once he was confronted by his ex-classmates Micah and Joey, the real-life counterparts of Aica and Zoe respectively in TheStinger]].
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* RichBitch: Zoe. She has an entire ''lechon''[[note]]Filipino suckling pig[[/note]] to herself and says her parents don't work but only invest. Her family even bribes her school to make her the high school valedictorian.

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Marco goes to his car after the book signing, only to be confronted by his ex-classmates Micah and Joey, who reveal that he derived events from their childhood for his novels. Upset at their depictions in the novel, Micah and Joey beat up Marco with a copy of the book.]]

* TheStinger:

** This also applies to [[spoiler:''The Gifted'' book author, Marco in his childhood. According to Maica and Joey, he was ostracized not for his smarts but by his bad behavior and all the embarrassing things their fictional counterparts experienced was Marco's. Also Maica and Joey has fire forged friendship in real life.]].
* BasedOnATrueStory: The film is largely a narration of a book of the same name, [[spoiler: a very loose one that is]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The black mark on Marco's face. [[spoiler:Hinting at the "true story" being not what it seems, it was actually much worse in his childhood and added to his outcast nature. It also served as an inspiration for his disfigurement towards the end of the part of the book he reads in the book-signing.]]

* {{Fanservice}}: Sam Milby, Anne Curtis and Cristine Reyes do not disappoint.

* RichBitch: Zoe
* ShirtlessScene: Sam Milby has one towards the end.
* SignificantDoubleCasting: Sam Milby plays both Marco, the book author and Mark a hunk who became a classmate of Aica and Zoe in Marco's book. This suggest that Mark is an AuthorAvatar of Marco. This is [[spoiler:confirmed]] in the epilogue, though the book [[spoiler:isn't a faithful adaptation of a true story as purported]].

* Foreshadowing: The black mark on Marco's face. [[spoiler:It was actually much worse in his childhood and added to his outcast nature.]]

'''''The Gifted''''' is a dark comedy [[UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}} Filipino film]]. Produced by Viva Films and directed by Chris Martinez, it details the rivalry between two abnormally smart girls from different walks of life - Zoe Tuazon, who comes from an extremely affluent family, and Aica Tabayoyong, who comes from a lower-class family.

* BlackComedy

* SignificantDoubleCasting: Sam Milby plays both Marco, the book author and Mark a hunk who became a classmate of Aica and Zoe in Marco's book. This suggest that Mark is an AuthorAvatar of Marco. This is [[spoiler:confirmed]] in the epilogue, though the book [[spoiler:a faithful adaptation of a true story as purported]].

* RichBitch: Zoe.

* Fanservice: Sam Milby, Anne Curtis and Cristine Reyes do not disappoint.

* RichBitch: Zoe.

-->''"Some people work harder than others. Some have it, some don't. Then there are the very few ones who are just born with it. They are the gifted.""\\
-->'''Narration'''

-->--'''Narration'''