Weighed but Found Wanting
- sombre
- intense
Sombre, steady, measured drama / small-town, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A privileged teenager, disillusioned with the hypocrisy he witnesses in his small town, forms a bond with a lonely leper and a mentally unstable homeless woman.
Our read · Weighed but Found Wanting (1974) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · small-town · social-realism entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Weighed but Found Wanting
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a landmark Filipino social drama about hypocrisy and human bonds.”
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The reading.
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