Tbh watching this in my cold, comfortable bedroom that I don’t share with anyone else was an uncomfortable experience.
It’s just stunning how my reality’s so different from other Filipinos. It just amazes me how the system fails people like Iska. Just wow.
But I’m rating this a star and a half, because while it portrays a very harrowing reality, so much of it just feels so obscene and unrealistic. Very by-the-book. That scene where the student-activists break out into a rally cry for Iska really didn’t land for me. It felt so fake and it was so forced, I laughed 😭
I’m sure the movie has good intentions but it felt so much like poverty porn. It is poverty porn. It was particularly effective for me, though. But I don’t think it is for others. The portrayal of activists alone (and as someone who had a very brief stint in Anakbayan and LFS) was just not it tbh. They were overly theatrical, which is so unlike how activists act in real life.
The review is all over the place because I’m genuinely conflicted over the movie!
Tbh watching this in my cold, comfortable bedroom that I don’t share with anyone else was an uncomfortable experience.
It’s just stunning how my reality’s so different from other Filipinos. It just amazes me how the system fails people like Iska. Just wow.
But I’m rating this a star and a half, because while it portrays a very harrowing reality, so much of it just feels so obscene and unrealistic. Very by-the-book. That scene where the student-activists break out into a rally cry for Iska really didn’t land for me. It felt so fake and it was so forced, I laughed 😭
I’m sure the movie has good intentions but it felt so much like poverty porn. It is poverty porn. It was particularly effective for me, though. But I don’t think it is for others. The portrayal of activists alone (and as someone who had a very brief stint in Anakbayan and LFS) was just not it tbh. They were overly theatrical, which is so unlike how activists act in real life.
The review is all over the place because I’m genuinely conflicted over the movie!
