Dekada ‘70 A Not So ’70s Film
Posted by nostalgiamanila on February 18, 2007 · 2 Comments
Ah! Here we are. Excellent! Here was a movie about a family struggling to live a normal life during the hardships of martial law in the ’70s. Wow! I couldn’t get over the fact that someone had finally made a film that was set in ”70s Manila . That’s a damn huge undertaking. For someone who is absolutely fascinated with the ”70s (and also lived through it), this film really sparked my interest. But then I started thinking hard… I tried my darndest to remember the last really good Filipino film I saw that was actually made in the last decade. The last one I saw worth remembering was Manila By Night, City After Dark: Ishmael Bernal’s masterpiece, which was made in the year 1980. I couldn’t help but ask myself: “How good… or how bad could Dekada ”70 be?” Would Star Cinema be able to deliver a critically acclaimed film? Would they really be able to capture ’70s Manila ?! I sniffed around for online film reviews, and just as I suspected: every single one had praised the movie using up all the good adjectives in the dictionary. One film critic even praised it as if it were the best Filipino film ever made! Too many good reviews and not one single bad one had me suspicious. I started to have my doubts about the film, so naturally I had to find out for myself, right? So in one click, I ordered the movie be delivered to me; the spoils of modern technology.
Two days later I found it in my mailbox. I wasted no time and immediately began to watch the film that had tugged at my curiosity a few days earlier. I reminded myself… “Keep an open mind.” The film begins; I watch closely.
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Well will surely like to see this one. There is even one more name That 70s show. Even that’s great one. Just have a look at it.
well dont know about the flim..lets see…thanks for the post??