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Oro, Plata, Mata (1982)
A cheap rip-off of Gone with The Wind
This might be an unpolar opinion.
I watched this movie because too many people consider this classic and rave about it. I love classic filipino film. My favorite movies are Tinimbang ka ngunit kulang and Himala.
This movie however...
It was disappointing. I understand that this is supposed to be a portrayal of the rich and affluent's lives in times of war but all it showed was the rich partying in the city for a long period of the beginning (oro) then the rich having a vacation at an hacienda (plata) and the rich camping at the mountains (mata). Of course the peppered that with talks of war which btw seem like so far away from them. Then in an effort to bring the war closer to them, they were once visited by wouded guerillas and showed some unnecessary gruesome scenes like sewing of bloody wounds. Then we see one Japanese soldier on the river killed brutally, why is he there? Where are the pthers? Why is no one finding these people in the mountains when a japanese was there in the river. Then theres the betrayal of melchor, which may one of the few things in the movie that made sense but was immediately ruined by the ambush part where Miguel and Hermes ak rambo went into the bandits camp heroically and kill everyone even though miguel have a heart problem apparently, another poorly executed character development. Why would Trining go with the bandits anyway? Then why would she call everyone animals at tue end? Kinda hypocritical considering she had sex with Hermes when miguel is her BF and went with the bandits for no apparent reason but a poor character development.
Iguess I was expecting the characters to connect more with the war, but they seem so far off...even the last scene where the party is not lively as the first scene, it still didn't quite feel like there was a war that supposed to somehow changed them into animals in the first place...What happened to the hacienda anyway? What happens after the war? Aside from partying and trining hating everyone when shes the most annoying character?