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Weighed But Found Wanting

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1974 · 128 min Drama
7.3 / 10 · TMDB

A privileged teenager, the son of a local politician, navigates the suffocating hypocrisy of his provincial town. His growing disillusionment draws him into an unlikely friendship with two societal outcasts: a lonely leper living on the outskirts and a mentally unstable homeless woman. These bonds become his portal to a world of raw human suffering and unexpected purity, hidden behind a veneer of respectability. Against a backdrop of stark social inequality and political machinations, he confronts the true cost of silent complicity and the fragile line between sanity and madness.

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Original Title Tinimbang ka Ngunit Kulang
Year 1974
Country Philippines
Genre Drama
Director Lino Brocka
Runtime 128 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.3/10 (13 votes)

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Lino Brocka's film is a surgical dissection of social rot, where personal tragedy mirrors a national sickness. The director masterfully contrasts the town's hypocritical order with the chaotic yet genuine reality of its outcasts.

What lingers after the final frame is a profound moral unease, a challenge to our own definitions of sanity and value. The haunting faces of the forsaken compel a reckoning with the true meaning of human connection in a broken world. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Lino Brocka

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