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Filipino director Brillante Mendoza's slice-of-life/day-in-the-lives of the extended family members who run as well as live in a wretchedly dilapidated adult movie house in a grimy, poverty-ridden province of the Philippines is a very deliberately paced, but quietly powerful statement about lives of potential trapped within a social-economical situation.Desperate to feign dignity after losing a court case to prove her louse of a husband as an infidel, matriarch Flora returns to her slovenly existence only to discover her grandson has gotten his girlfriend pregnant and that the rest of her remaining business is about to flounder financially. The director places the viewer right amidst the muck and mire of a this deplorably filthy environment as the various miscreant types wander in and out-mostly gay hustlers and their tricks who go blithely about their business as the constant cacophony from the street endlessly drones a few steps away in this explicitly beautiful but sad story.
