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Initial title and looks of this TV series made me think that it would be a boring show, but I was so wrong!

Original, creative, and captivating! Wow - design, style, casting, character development, directing, cinematography, story, writing, editing! I cannot find any faults.

It might feel slow at times, but you will be surprised once you are hooked to their worlds! I can't get enough! Very cerebral, while not feeling that way as well when you are watching it. Super recommended! Definitely a precious gem! Incredible masterpiece by the entire team behind this show.

Wow, I'm actually lost for words because there are so many wonderful things to talk about this film. I didn't expect it to be that well-made and captivating given that I came in with an expectation that it might just be another one of those "poverty porn" films. On the contrary, it touched on so many topics, so many aspects, and each of them beautifully presented and just told from a very realistic point of view.

I'm surprised to see that it was a white man who directed and wrote this, and he kind of got grilled during one of the talkback session for being so. I mean, you deserve so much praise for directing and creating this film, and you're very humble for acknowledging how much the local Filipino talents and staff have also contributed to making this very powerful film. Incredibly excellent casting and acting as well! These are not even well-known actors, but it shows how great the team behind this film is to have been able to provide them such a platform, direction, cinematography to really shine!

It's not something new, I guess, because yeah, there's this talk about poverty porn and it being used already in a number of films before, but I believe we can always look at it from a fresh pair of eyes and fresh lenses to see merits of such films. It even covers more than the poverty itself, but also the very humane aspects of the struggles portrayed. Relevance - this still happens and is still an important topic to discuss for both the local society and the foreign parties involved.

Again, each and every aspect perfectly and fairly presented. Choices on the execution, visuals, and imagery are effective, bold, brave, and refreshing. Very humane. No minute wasted. Highly recommended!

The start of the film is the only thing that you would take away. Audio was also not "lipsyncing" on a number of scene, which was very evident. Quite a relevant technical miss.

Lead actor remains having such a charm and charisma, but even that is not enough to save this film at all. His acting started good, but he also eventually kind of lost the character somewhere in the middle.

Some of the supporting actors did good enough plus an interesting idea for the story, but the rest of the film in every way was just so horrible. Sadly, super disappointing.