The highlight of Roys direction is building tension through the lens of CCTV cameras. In order to retrieve the child, the young couple is forced to take desperate measures. It may be germane at this point to say that for a filmmaker with a conscience who wishes to register a social critique in his or her work there may be no need for such meta moments, which in the history of this independent film festival are admittedly losing their charm and getting old fast. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Copyright The Flame | All Rights Reserved. (The first half of this review will not contain spoilers but the second half will) "Pamilya Ordinaryo" is a 2016 Oriental film about these two teenagers, Jane (16) and Aries (17) who are married or at least say they are, live on the streets, and have a less than thirty day year old baby named Arjan. Aries at Jane? of those people who featured them helped to find their missing child. Walang dramatikong pagbabago sa gawi ng mga tauhan, may dagdag lang na uukilkil sa kamalayan ng mga tauhan. They are too poor, too filthy, too coarse. Police officers are the ones who help solve crimes and protect people who are being abused, but that is not what shows in this film. After that, they got another message saying that it has their child. that place and went to a radio station instead. It throws mud right at your face, demanding your attention, and giving you no reason not to look without feeling dirty. The difference is that unlike Mendozas heavily polemical work, Roys feature is more consistently focalized, its protagonists dramatized to the fullest possible extent. AN INVISIBLE line is drawn when directing and creating films about poverty. Offhand, there's something "poverty-pornographic" about Eduardo Roy Jr.'s Pamilya Ordinaryo, whose story was waiting to be written and filmically told, come to think of it: two street kids living on Manila's grimy sidewalks have themselves a baby that promptly gets stolen from them (here, by a smooth-talking and oily-faced cross-dresser, who