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‘Ang Babae sa Septic Tank’ was initially released last August 2011 but I was only able to watch it a year after over the internet. Though, I didn’t watch it in purpose. I was then watching ‘Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros’ in YouTube when the former movie title from the suggestions bar caught my attention. I have heard in the news before that ‘Ang Babae sa Septic Tank’ bagged the major awards given by the different award-giving bodies and was also nominated for other awards, not to mention that it became the highest grossing Filipino independent film in the history of cinema. Thus, I didn’t hesitate to open it in a new tab and did watch it right after ‘Ang Pagdadalaga…’
It was very creative of the movie that it was able to highlight how movie-making is being processed. Thus, everyone who watched it tagged the film as a ‘movie within a movie.’ I found it very unique for a movie doing such by letting the viewers walked through a script from brainstorming, putting ideas into executions to the problems arising in choosing the poster that would best fit into the theme of the film and in the departments of casting, lightings and production design and location by the young filmmakers played by Kean Cipriano as Direk Rainier, JM de Guzman as Bingbong, the producer and Cai Cortez as the silent yet very imaginative production assistant in the name of Jocelyn.
Set in an urban poor community, their movie titled “Walang Wala” dealt with the story of Mila, played by Eugene Domingo, who is a mother from the slums who sold one of her children to a pedophile out of desperation to survive.
The brainstorming of the three filmmakers on how they wanted to execute the story came up throughout the story as different approaches were colorfully presented in Jocelyn’s wide imagination. The original version was a typical indie film treatment reinterpreted into a documentary drama which turned into a musical with a complete production numbers and singing. Another version of it was a commercialized melodrama wherein there are manifestations of product endorsements in every scene. Included in the brainstorming was also the discussion of their casting choices as two other actresses, Cherry Pie Picache and Mercedes Cabral, play the role of Mila.
Another thing in the movie that hyped my interest was the approach done by Eugene in her real-life role when she was giving demands on how the foods are like on the set and that her quarters should be air-conditioned. With her kind of portrayal in this scene, the viewers were given a hint on how many of our leading stars act and behave towards making a project in real life.
Indie films don’t always need to be in the form of porn or in any dragging and malicious themes. Either way, indie films don’t always need to highlight the deficiency our country has. Such storylines are being formulaic and conventional. Though, ‘Ang Babae sa Septic Tank’ is also a poverty-themed film but in the form of romanticized one because of its whole movie scheme as an art of making art, movie within a movie.
It was very creative of the movie that it was able to highlight how movie-making is being processed. Thus, everyone who watched it tagged the film as a ‘movie within a movie.’ I found it very unique for a movie doing such by letting the viewers walked through a script from brainstorming, putting ideas into executions to the problems arising in choosing the poster that would best fit into the theme of the film and in the departments of casting, lightings and production design and location by the young filmmakers played by Kean Cipriano as Direk Rainier, JM de Guzman as Bingbong, the producer and Cai Cortez as the silent yet very imaginative production assistant in the name of Jocelyn.
Set in an urban poor community, their movie titled “Walang Wala” dealt with the story of Mila, played by Eugene Domingo, who is a mother from the slums who sold one of her children to a pedophile out of desperation to survive.
The brainstorming of the three filmmakers on how they wanted to execute the story came up throughout the story as different approaches were colorfully presented in Jocelyn’s wide imagination. The original version was a typical indie film treatment reinterpreted into a documentary drama which turned into a musical with a complete production numbers and singing. Another version of it was a commercialized melodrama wherein there are manifestations of product endorsements in every scene. Included in the brainstorming was also the discussion of their casting choices as two other actresses, Cherry Pie Picache and Mercedes Cabral, play the role of Mila.
Another thing in the movie that hyped my interest was the approach done by Eugene in her real-life role when she was giving demands on how the foods are like on the set and that her quarters should be air-conditioned. With her kind of portrayal in this scene, the viewers were given a hint on how many of our leading stars act and behave towards making a project in real life.
Indie films don’t always need to be in the form of porn or in any dragging and malicious themes. Either way, indie films don’t always need to highlight the deficiency our country has. Such storylines are being formulaic and conventional. Though, ‘Ang Babae sa Septic Tank’ is also a poverty-themed film but in the form of romanticized one because of its whole movie scheme as an art of making art, movie within a movie.
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