Pamilya ordinaryo

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.

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

The ambience, the setting, the acting, and the actors are all excellent. It is worth watching. This is the exact definition of "No acting - acting". Everything is just natural. The story is very natural. This is just a maaterpiece. While watching the film, i felt i was with them the whole time. I was really drawn by the excellent portayal Of the two main characters. So, i invite everyone to find some Time to watch this award winning film from my home country, Philippines. Depicts the life of the people living in the streets and the struggle they are faced jn every day life. Perfect. This is mu second time watching this film.

Not only is the acting masterclass and realistic, the direction and editing is also superb and really reflects the painful truth behind what's happening in contemporary Filipino society. Definitely, a must watch for all Filipinos like me.

Quite an engrossing movie and I could relate to it as an Indian from India in many ways including the police and the media.

Both the actors justified their roles very well.

The ending left me thinking. Was it that the child they found was really not Aryan, or was it that Jane remembered the dialog that Ariel said in the bus about the child now being in excellent care and that she decided to leave the child in foster care even though she knew that the baby was Aryan.

The movie did highlight the issues relating to the underprivileged people. And yes, the paradoxical truth also emerged. They wanted to fend for the baby, even though through unethical means and they did not succumb to the offers of buying the child or taking a loan.

It surely was a excellent portrayal of the conflicted ideals of an underprivileged society TRUE in any country of the Third World.