Before I get to the movie itself, I want to tell you about this little incident while I was buying movie snacks. A Tale of Two Assholes, which could possibly be an insight on how we Pinoys treat each other. A-hole #1: Snack Dude, A-hole #2: Customer.
So I was buying Nacho Sticks before going in the 2:10 PM showing and there was some commotion about a guy getting nachos instead of potato skins (or chips). The guy was furious about getting the wrong snack. And this is the last part of their conversation (of course, not accurate):
Ok, point number one: The customer is always right, even when he's wrong. Point number two: that "rule" was made, I think, precisely to avoid confrontation. In a perfect world, the snack dude should have just apologized for "his mistake" and correct it. The customer for his part, shouldn't have made a scene like that. Now what if one of them was a foreigner, how do you think this would have gone?
Customer: Potato yung in-order namin, hindi Nachos.
(snack dude, prepares the potato things, customer continues bitching)
Snack Dude (taking it all in, tries to score with a response): Potato po ba yung sinabi niyo kanina?
Customer: Babalik ba ako rito kung tama yung binigay niyo?!
Snack Dude: Nagtatanong lang po.
Customer: Ang sagot dapat "sorry", hindi pa yung kung anu-ano!
(customer storms off with the potato snacks)
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Anyway, how good is the timing for this movie? Just last week, the superb Manny Pacquiao victory over who-the-hell-cares-right-now, putting boxing and national pride on top of the headlines for a while. So this movie gets free advertising somehow (if only it had "boxing" in the title).
Without spoiling the movie, I'd have to say, that you shouldn't focus on the boxing part because there's a lot to see in this movie, set in The Great Depression of the 20s and 30s. The human spirit, second chances, desperation, living an honest life. Watch this movie. How can you go wrong with Russell Crowe (who lost weight for the part), Renee Zellweger (who unfortunately had some scenes where she could have blurted out, "you had me at hello"), and the underappreciated Paul Giamatti (THE character-actor)? You could compare this though, with Seabiscuit, also set in the depression era. The difference being, this has real Oscar-caliber acting.
Go watch this movie.
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