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    Alagwa is a 2012 Filipino drama film that tells the story of Robert Lim, an impoverished single father who searches for his young son Brian after he goes missing. It explores the issue of human trafficking in the Philippines from the perspective of a father. Though the story starts out slowly, it gains momentum when Brian is kidnapped. The film authentically captures Robert's exhaustion and confusion as he tries to find his son. While the build up of suspense towards the climax is effective, some viewers felt the resolution lacked depth. Overall, the movie tackles its difficult subject matter realistically but could have benefited from a stronger concluding resolution.

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    Alagwa is a 2012 Filipino drama film that tells the story of Robert Lim, an impoverished single father who searches for his young son Brian after he goes missing. It explores the issue of human trafficking in the Philippines from the perspective of a father. Though the story starts out slowly, it gains momentum when Brian is kidnapped. The film authentically captures Robert's exhaustion and confusion as he tries to find his son. While the build up of suspense towards the climax is effective, some viewers felt the resolution lacked depth. Overall, the movie tackles its difficult subject matter realistically but could have benefited from a stronger concluding resolution.

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    Alagwa is a 2012 Filipino drama film that tells the story of Robert Lim, an impoverished single father who searches for his young son Brian after he goes missing. It explores the issue of human trafficking in the Philippines from the perspective of a father. Though the story starts out slowly, it gains momentum when Brian is kidnapped. The film authentically captures Robert's exhaustion and confusion as he tries to find his son. While the build up of suspense towards the climax is effective, some viewers felt the resolution lacked depth. Overall, the movie tackles its difficult subject matter realistically but could have benefited from a stronger concluding resolution.

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    Alagwa

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    Alagwa is a 2012 Filipino drama film that tells the story of Robert Lim, an impoverished single father who searches for his young son Brian after he goes missing. It explores the issue of human trafficking in the Philippines from the perspective of a father. Though the story starts out slowly, it gains momentum when Brian is kidnapped. The film authentically captures Robert's exhaustion and confusion as he tries to find his son. While the build up of suspense towards the climax is effective, some viewers felt the resolution lacked depth. Overall, the movie tackles its difficult subject matter realistically but could have benefited from a stronger concluding resolution.

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    Ana May Dominique M.

    de Dios
    COM-117 Film Theory

    August 26, 2016

    Alagwa
    Alagwa is a 2012 drama movie that was directed by Ian Loreos that stared Jericho Rosales, Bugoy
    Cario and Leo Martinez. It tells about the story of an impoverished single parent, Robert Lim
    (Rosales) and his search for young son Brian (Cario) inn which he unearths the dark facets of
    human trafficking that is prevalent in the Philippines.

    Based only on the story line, there is a touch of realism to it because even though the film was made
    a couple of years ago, Human trafficking is still very much prevalent not just in the Philippines but
    on other parts of the world.

    This movie however takes on a perspective of the father, which is usually a perspective that is not
    portrayed a lot in media at the time because of how society views a man when he shows his
    emotions, because it is considered "unmanly".

    Although being a typical father figure in the movie that is not vocal to say he loves his child, Robert
    does however show his affection through his actions of caring for the well being of Brian.

    Although being gone almost half of the story line, Bugoy Cario gave a sharp impact to the
    audience with his disappearance in the movie. He has a very real way of showing that he is just a
    regular child in the film which is quite talkative and inquisitive but is a little mature.

    There were a lot of sequences in the movie that we can see Robert walking on the streets of Manila
    then suddenly in the streets of Hong Kong. The sequences are all shot in the third person
    perspective and there were some that are quite shaky which is normal in some independent movies
    to provide authenticity of the shot since most independent movie productions consist of just holding
    the camera by hand.

    The flow of the story is dragging at first but it took a major turn when Brian was kidnapped. It also
    showed in the succeeding sequences a very visual way of showing Robert's character is exhausted
    and confused on how he will get Brian back to the point that the viewers is experiencing it as well.
    But somehow even though there were a lot of suspense that built up towards the climax, the falling
    action and the resolution lacked some depth.

    For some viewers, they might not like this movie because of its complex sequences. It might be
    heavy for some viewers not for its storyline but for how raw some of the sequences are that it might
    confuse them in which timeline the story is being told.

    Overall, the movie is well made. It has the elements of an independent movie with its production
    value and cinematography, but still tapped into mainstream with its actors. The story was good
    although it might have needed more depth not from the sequences that was shown but more on
    making a good falling action and resolution.

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