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Chassis

2010 · 73 min Drama
3.8 / 10 · TMDB

Single mother Nora lives with her daughter Sarah on a cardboard groundsheet and hammock tied to the undercarriage of a semitrailer in the parking lot of a Manila cargo terminal. Deep in debt and receiving little help from her husband, Nora has nothing to live for except for Sarah. Living in a community suffering from abject poverty, Nora sifts through trash and spends time with Vilma, a happily single shopkeeper, and Minda, whose truck-driver husband disappeared a month ago presumably to live with another woman. With no other viable options to support her daughter, Nora turns to prostitution.

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📋 Film Details

Year 2010
Country Philippines
Genre Drama
Director Adolfo Alix Jr.
Runtime 73 min.
Rating TMDB: 3.8/10 (4 votes)

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The film constructs its reality through tangible, nearly tactile details—the creak of metal, the texture of cardboard, the damp asphalt. It explores not an abstract social issue, but a specific human body forced to exist in a space not meant for it.

What lingers after viewing is not pity, but an awareness of the fragile line separating a 'normal' life from existence on the edge. It's a gaze without judgment, yet with merciless clarity. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Adolfo Alix Jr.

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