1974 · drama · small-town · social-realism
Weighed but Found Wanting
Directed by Lino Brocka2h 8m1974
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.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / small-town, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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