Prima facie.

We watched I Love You, Goodbye.  I did because I trusted Laurice Guillen, the film's director, to deliver a good movie.

It's an all right movie; meaning there's no hysterics, there were some good acting (mainly from Matet de Leon), it was predictable and it was subdued compared to other Filipino films.

In short, I went to see the movie based on prima facie evidence - as in, Laurice Guillen being a well known and award winning director, directed it; so from the looks of it, it must be a good movie.  

In the movie,  two men asked the same woman to marry them.  The lucky guy dies; the loser wins. Both men were bold in building their cases. There was no "tyope" type.

In most reality, if a man asked a woman to marry him, and got ignored and written off, he would either swear not to be fooled again, or make himself free again or simply let fate take him along.

Prima facies. So many, the case stands on its own.