Final scenes of the film Metro Manila, directed by Sean Ellis. MANILA, Philippines — Christmas time is Metro Manila Film Festival time, and MMFF means another Vice Ganda movie. The actors depict how people resort to desperate measures, when they're threatened to lose everything that they have. The film was selected as the British entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Even Ellis’ lens-geek camerawork—full of fist-sized bokeh, horizontal flares, and smothery shallow depth-of-field—resembles a digitally slicked variation on the style of longtime Nolan cinematographer Wally Pfister. Helmed by British director Sean Ellis, Metro Manila will be screened in Philippine cinemas starting October 9, 2013. Directed by Paula Garcia, this short film will be one of the two featured films from Philippines in the Pelikula Spanish Film Festival 2015. "Metro Manila" lives up to its R-13 rating due to some violence and nudity—proving that even a foreigner can see that life in the big city is not for the weak of constitution. Don’t miss the boat. View Reaction Pape1.docx from HUMANITIES 107 at Ateneo de Davao University. Cast. Dekada '70 (Buod) Set in the ‘70s in Urban Metro Manila. (Related: Metro Manila being considered for Hollywood remake). The grit and grim proverty of Metro Manila welcome them with open arms, but after being deceived by swindlers, the couple realizes that a life in the city is no bed of roses. Just like primetime telenovelas that have captivated Pinoy households for decades, the film ends on a bittersweet note but leaves room for hope. PARK CITY -- More of a slow-burner than an outright actioner, Metro Manila reveals how the pitfalls of surviving urban life can drive even a principled family to the ends of desperation. "Sino" is a short film depicting the effects of Alzheimer's disease and the everyday struggles of a father and a son. Manila is a city that bursts with energy and danger, but it's also a city that is full of hope, dreams, and stories. Enter Metro Manila, a Philippines-set trouble-in-the-big-city movie that continually betrays the director’s influence in its visual style, editing, and structure. The story of Rainbow’s Sunset is well written and it is powerful story of love and family that hopefully helps to educate or at least bring some compassionate awareness in our … In 2019, MMFF’s eight entries earned a total of P995 million gross sales in the box-office. Ang, akdang ito ay masasabi kong maiuugnay sa totoong kaganapan dito sa ating bansa. Steve Rose @steverose7. As a college student living in an urbanized area, making a living in Manila is not easy. 2013. Watch the film and see Metro Manila in a new light. Judy Ann Santos as Saima Datupalo; A Muslim mother who cares for her daughter afflicted with cancer. English. Araling Panlipunan (Social Studies) teachers will be showing this film to their students for many years to come. Lesson 1 is probably about the opportunities that come into our lives. People from all over the Philippines flock to this bustling metropolis in hopes of securing a better life for their family, to make it big, and to say goodbye to poverty. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. With Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla, Althea Vega, Erin Panlilio. Metro Manila is a British-Filipino collaboration directed by Sean Ellis. Pagsusuri ng pelikula. After all, a lot of films simply focus on the city's poverty and the grim desperation of its people, eschewing the positive aspects of Metro Manila in the process. At the heart of Metro Manila is a simple, solid story that is realistic and quietly explosive in the end.. A middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship. A struggling farmer in Banaue, he and his wife Mai (Althea Vega) leave behind the rice terraces to try their luck in the city, after barely making ends meet. Vice Ganda Realizes “Not Caring about Moral Lesson” from Past MMFF Movies. Metro Manila (2013) Plot. The problem is that Ellis leans so heavily on urban degradation clichés that the movie registers as arch and inauthentic, even to a viewer who doesn’t know the milieu. The lesson the movie wants us all to learn? Helmed by British director Sean Ellis, Metro Manila won the Audience Choice Award in the World Cinema-Dramatic category of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. 11 Important Life Lessons You Would Learn in Noah’s Ark 1. When Oscar first arrives at the city with his family, an early morning fog envelopes the metropolis, casting a somewhat otherworldly sheen on the city’s dirty streets. But in a better way in every minute detail. Oscar Ramirez (Jake Macapagal), the protagonist of Metro Manila, has the same story. Of course, there’s a narrative purpose to those first two-thirds: to immerse the viewer in the world Oscar and Mai inhabit, and to provide an emotional context for Oscar’s behavior in Metro Manila’s closing act. Metro Manila, on the other hand, is a film built around the promise of hope, on solid family ties (that could sometimes be too close to a fault, but nevertheless a characteristic that any Filipino could easily relate to), and on a person's unrelenting dream to deliver his family out of poverty. At this point, the story departs from the usual "poverty porn" that a lot of Filipino viewers have grown accustomed to. ABOUT THE MOVIE. Metro Manila. Starting from there, I already know that it’s not answer for their problem. This is equally true of this film, which spends its first 75 minutes as a very conventional drama about a couple named Oscar (Jake Macapagal) and Mai (Althea Vega), who move from the countryside to Manila, find themselves struggling to get by, and are forced to endure various humiliations. © 2019 Philippine Entertainment Portal Inc. All Rights Reserved. This subplot is based on the true story of Reginald Chua. MANILA, Philippines – Movies, regardless of genre, help us escape the hustle and bustle of daily life. While it is worthy to note that Metro Manila is the official entry of the United Kingdom to the 86th Academy Awards (under the Best Foreign Language Film category), there is more to this movie than meets the eye. What happens when people are pushed to the edge? Driven by a pressing need to deliver his family out of poverty, Reginald ends up hijacking a plane, and his fate presents a strong parallelism to Oscar’s own story. These images, interspersed with the plot, seem to act as chapters that help progress the story further. Set in the Philippines this is a story of a rural farmer, Oscar, who takes his wife and two children to Manila to find employment and a better life. We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on PEP.ph. The value of sacrifice for the sake of … Just when things seem to start looking up for the downtrodden couple, Oscar's manipulative partner Ong (John Arcilla) takes advantage of him, putting the morally upright Oscar in a bind. While the movie goes off to a slow start and may initially look like just any other film about a poor family struggling to survive in Manila, the fact that it ends on a promising note sets it apart from most movies that pay homage to the country's capital. Being in one of Manila's most dangerous professions, Oscar faces the dilemma of either upholding his integrity or succumbing to temptation. Showing all 2 items Jump to: Summaries (2) Summaries. The movie, which has themes of drama and suspense, revolves around the life of rice farmer Oscar (Jake Macapagal). You’ll never look at armored truck drivers the same way again after watching Metro Manila, starring John Arcilla (left) and Jake Macapagal (right). LESSONS LEARNED: There are lessons to be learned here, for sure: Filipino moviegoers are used to watching movies and TV series for free on social media. Though Christopher Nolan remains one of contemporary Hollywood’s biggest tonal influences, no one has really tried to directly imitate his mismatched puzzle piece style. But what MMFF movie is complete without a moral lesson to take home for the holidays, right? John Arcilla as Ong Should he go along with his colleague's plans and end up like the many city scum Oscar has grown to despise, or should he take the high road and risk his—and his family's life—in the process? By continued use, you agree to our privacy policy and accept our use of such cookies. This riveting crime thriller follows Oscar, a recent emigrant to Manila who gets pulled into a harrowing world of corruption and violence when he takes a job as an armored car driver to support his family (in Tagalog w/ English subtitles). PH gov’t extends ECQ in Metro Manila, 4 provinces for one more week; PH records 12,576 fresh cases of COVID-19; HINDI NAWAWALA: PhilHealth says 98% of missing Php15-Billion funds liquidated; 25 mosques to open in Sharjah ahead of Ramadan; OCTA Research backs 1-week extension of ECQ in NCR Plus Bubble Written, directed, and shot by glossy British photographer-turned-filmmaker Sean Ellis (Cashback), the movie is a catalogue of Nolanisms translated into Tagalog and executed on a tight budget. Fantastic Mr. Fox doesn’t provide any of the easy moral lessons that one might expect from a film intended for children. While the movie goes off to a slow start and may initially look like just any other film about a poor family struggling to survive in Manila, the fact that it ends on a promising note sets it apart from most movies that pay homage to the country's capital. Jake Macapagal as Oscar Oscar finds a job as a driver for an armored truck company, while his wife ends up as a GRO at a local bar just so they'd be able to feed their two children.Althea Vega as Mai. With the beautiful dialogues and the performances the story makes you wonder how long it can drag. As of this writing, a movie entitled, “Heneral Luna”, is being shown in its 3rd week in Metro Manila cinemas and nationwide. There’s a sense of genuine curiosity on Brocka’s part about his characters and the society in which they live that’s in precious little supply in Metro Manila, what with its generally predictable plot turns and utterly conventional moralizing (in Ellis’s film, even Oscar’s drunken night out on the town is intercut with his wife’s stripping, as if to tiresomely suggest the inherent sin of both their behaviors). The movie also intersperses flashbacks to another character’s story (that ends up as a sort of driving force and moral lesson to Oscar’s plot), which could be of interest to moviegoers. Both Cashback—which was expanded from an Oscar-nominated short—and Ellis’ sophomore feature, the horror movie The Broken, suggested that the filmmaker could only come up with 40 minutes of material, and filled the rest of the running time with generic filler. As I watched El Presidente, all the lessons I learned from my A.P. Find out more here. Viewers are afforded a view of not only flashing lights and dark alleyways but also of skylines at sunrise. Metro Manila is 2013 British independently produced crime drama film directed by Sean Ellis, set in the Philippines and with dialogue mainly in Tagalog.Ellis also co-produced and co-wrote the film. Not even the great Nora Aunor can save this disaster of a movie, Kabisera, one of the eight so-called official entries to the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). It’s only in the final 40 minutes that Metro Manila turns into the scuzzy, crackerjack, find-the-MacGuffin crime movie one presumes Ellis set out to make. Metro Manila won the Audience award for best World Dramatic Competition film at Sundance 2013. The problem with Metro Manila, though, is that it isn’t a Christopher Nolan movie; it’s a Sean Ellis movie. Dekada '70 is as pop as the 70's is propagated today. You’ll never look at armored truck drivers the same way again. The movie is an official entry to the 2018 Metro Manila Film Festival. Dating back to the Pre-Colonial Era, our literature had been used as entertainment and moral compass of elders for children as it gives a vague moral lesson of stabilizing the balance and order of good deeds in their tribe by knowing the values and lessons they got from the protagonists in the stories. Metro Manila sports some excellent visual sequences, and manages to abstain from veering into overly soapy melodramatics... At its core, the film features a dynamite lead performance from Macapagal. teachers seemed to come back to me. It's a reminder that deprivation of affection by a parent can cause great emotional damage and … This is UK writer/director Sean Ellis's third feature-length film. T ales of country innocents corrupted by the big city have been a staple of cinema since … Xx. At the heart of Metro Manila is a simple, solid story that is realistic and quietly explosive in the end. This riveting crime thriller follows Oscar, a recent emigrant to Manila who gets pulled into a harrowing world of corruption and violence when he takes a job as an armored car driver to … “Thy Womb” starring Nora Aunor also qualifies if you like intellectually stimulating films, which judging by … Directed by Sean Ellis. Enter Metro Manila, a Philippines-set trouble-in-the-big-city movie that continually betrays the director’s influence in its visual style, editing, and structure. When the movie 'Where God Left His Shoes' meets 'Armored', the 'Metro Manila' forms. Self-identification. The film also works because of its solid cast. El Union’s Beloved Horchata is finally in Manila! Pre-Covid, the MMFF is the biggest moneymaker in the local movie industry. 7 Filipino Celebrity-Owned Food Businesses Worth Checking Out; MMFF 2020: The 10 Movies Coming to the Metro Manila Film Festival Online; Here’s How You Can Score Your Favorite Dishes from Manam, 8Cuts, and More at 50% Off Tomorrow! Thu 19 Sep 2013 17.00 EDT. This two-hour epic mess does show us the importance of the love between parents and children. While it is certain that opportunities come and go, it will take time before the new one will come your path, if … Soon, the morning sun casts an imposing light on the city, and when things start to get desperate, we see the skyline covered in the harsh red glow of sunset. The Not-So-Short History of Philippine Literature. A heart warming short film about family, love, moral lessons and everything in between. The enigmatic opening shot—the silhouette of a man, seen through billowing purple fabric and accompanied by instructive narration—comes straight from The Prestige; the parallel story of airplane hijacker Alfred Santos (JM Rodriguez), which is related in pieces, works like the story of Sammy Jankis in Memento, minus the twist ending; the achronological intercutting recalls countless climactic scenes in Nolan’s body of work. Jake Macapagal (as the naïve ex-soldier Oscar), Althea Vega (as the sympathetic Mai), and John Arcilla (as the exploitative Ong) did a great job in fleshing out realistic characters who are equally both endearing and tragic at the same time. “Metro Manila” counts as one of the 10% that is really good. Metro Manila will be screened in Philippine cinemas starting October 9, 2013. Metro Manila Reflection Paper This movie is about a farming family living in Banaue and moved to Metro Manila because they thought that it could be a solution about their financial problem. Jake Macapagal, John Arcilla, Althea Vega (in Tagalog w/ subtitles). Screenshot from ABS-CBN Star Cinema . VICE GANDA – It’s Showtime host Vice Ganda shared his realizations on “not caring about moral lesson” from his past MMFF movies. Not coincidentally, these are the scenes that set up the movie’s twisty final third. RELATED: Of Exes & What We Want Answered In Can We Still Be Friends. Metro Manila. Educational – I can see it already. Nolan’s style tends to create movies that are fun to watch, even if they make less and less sense—psychologically, ideologically, spatially—the more a viewer thinks about them. The film features stunning images of the metropolis. ... without even thinking about the movie’s moral lesson. That may be because it isn’t really all that intended for children. The only truly effective moments in this first, long stretch of the movie involve Oscar, who has been hired by an armored truck company, interacting with his new partner, the philandering, classical-music-loving Ong (John Arcilla). A family man through and through, Oscar is able to give his family a ticket out of poverty in the end. But yeah, the movie looked great in digital theaters. ABS-CBN talent Jose Marie Borja Viceral or better known as Vice Ganda currently owns the local box-office record of his 2017 movie “Gandarrapiddo: The Revengers Aquad”. One typical sequence intercuts shots of Oscar boozing and crying with slow-motion footage of Mai, who has taken a job as a bar girl, gyrating in a seedy nightclub; meanwhile, twinkly, willowy piano-and-strings music plays on the soundtrack. REACTION PAPER ( OTLUM) Otlum is a Filipino horror movie that was released on December 25, 2018 under the direction of
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