Pamilya ordinaryo

Just finished watching this film,and I have to say it took my breath away.

This is quite possibly one of the most brutal heart wrenching films I've ever seen.

There is far too much to write about without giving away spoilers so I just implore people to watch it.

The acting by the main two characters is amazing,where it's shot is sickening,just a mad metropolis full of poverty and crime everywhere,the way this is shot adds to the claustrophobia and nausea of where it's set.

This film is superb I am really struggling to find fault with it and can say it's been the first film in a long time that had an impact on me.

Like I said earlier,I don't like to give away spoilers so I've kept this short,but this is a must see film...

Just watch it!!!!

I don't usually write reviews. However, when I saw how good this movie, and found out that there is not even 1 review, I felt obliged to write.

As the title suggests this is a movie about the Ordinaryo family: 2 teen-age parents and their baby who live in the streets of Manila.

This may seem mundane to Filipinos because we see these scenarios in our everyday lives, but when we focus the lens and narrative to those suffering poverty, we start to see gravity of their problems that we realize we don't have any right to judge them for their status.

Before viewing Ang Pamilya Ordinaryo, I have this belief that poor Filipinos deserve to be poor because they are lazy, dumb, and morally low. However after viewing this, it showed me that poor people are poor in various circumstances that they can't control. This movie paints how multi-faceted and complex people are regardless of their class.

It showed me how irresponsible and hypocrite of me to point fingers when I myself contribute to systematic labeling of the poor as lowly. It showed me how lucky I am that I can easily cry while watching this in Netflix, while the poor doesn't even have the time to feel sorry for themselves lest they lose time to struggle for food. It showed me how morally degenerate I am for thinking less of our kababayans and for just being a bystander and spectator while others are suffering when I have every means to help them.

I can talk many thing about this movie, but I'm afraid to spoil anything. Hence, I inpart to you the best thing this movie made me realize: Humans are humans regardless of any reason you can think of and by that reasoning we, especially the marginalized, should be treated as such

I am tired of the what comes around... endings. It's a film for a reason..you may play around with ideas. You don't need to 100 percent mirror real life. That being said, the film was very engaging. BUT THE ENDING SUCKED.

Tough to watch yet no hyperbole. Living conditions framing the background to this film allow a fleeting glimpse at poverty in South East Asia's most densely populated metropolitan area where poverty is steadily increasing.

Both lead actors were so convincing I could not believe they were no exceptionally talented street children.

My Filipina partner tells me that Ordinary People in the Philippines are just nobodies for whom there is little love or care. This incredibly harrowing film illustrates that well. The leading couple were beautifully and very sympathetically played. The film took me to Manila and powerfully reminded me of what I'd felt when I was there. The story is hard and showed the cruel indifference which faces young people here and it was made more difficult to watch because the leading couple found moments of joy and love and fun despite being used.

I cried pretty much throughout. But I'm glad to have seen it.