Pamilya ordinaryo

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

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.

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.

I was totally interested in this film. It pulled me in and was engaging and engrossing. The ending was a huge disappointment for 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.