Insiang
Insiang

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- 76/100 based on 1,997 votes
  • Released: 1976
  • Runtime: 95 mins
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  • Studio: Cinemanila
  • Genres: Drama

Trapped in the slums, Insiang loathes living with her disapproving, sharp-tongued mother Tonya. Abandoned by her husband long ago, Tonya takes out her bitterness on those around her. In a fit of anger she finally evicts her husband's relatives who have been living with her, but not because they aren't bringing money into the house anymore: she's making way for her young boyfriend Dado to move in. Dado, the town bully, is young enough to be her son, and this new living situati... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Insiang:

Hilda Koronel
Mona Lisa
Ruel Vernal
Rez Cortez
Marlon Ramirez
Nina Lorenzo

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Trapped in the slums, Insiang loathes living with her disapproving, sharp-tongued mother Tonya. Abandoned by her husband long ago, Tonya takes out her bitterness on those around her. In a fit of anger she finally evicts her husband's relatives who have been living with her, but not because they aren't bringing money into the house anymore: she's making way for her young boyfriend Dado to move in. Dado, the town bully, is young enough to be her son, and this new living situation becomes the talk of the town. Dado soon forces himself on Insiang; at first outraged, Tonya soon takes Dado's side and blames her daughter for her own rape. Insiang leaves home to seek support and solace from her ardent would-be boyfriend Bebot, but he proves to be another Lothario. Forced to return home, Insiang turns this inescapable situation upon itself to exact revenge.

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The Film Stage - 9/10 by Ethan VestbyIt's rough, but not necessarily raw, for every image and rhythm feels perfectly calibrated.
Film Comment Magazine - 6/10 by Jose B. CapinoSuch an unforgiving vision of urban poverty justifies the excesses in this domestic drama.
User Review - 10/10 by Noel V"Insiang" is arguably Brocka's masterpiece--it's his most intense work, the intensity sustained from beginning almost to end. It has the best-structured screenplay of all his pictures (by Lamberto Antonio, based on the original television script by Mario O'Hara); it's also one of his most atypical, and atypical of even most other Filipino films. The intensity and structure go together hand-in-hand; you might say that structure is the source of the film's intensity. The story is admirably compact, with only three significant characters (Dado, Pacing, and Insiang) in essentially a single setting (Insiang's home--there are scenes elsewhere, but they could also as easily be set at home), the events taking place in the span of a few days to a few weeks. The film is comparable to Shakespeare's most elegantly plotted play, "Othello," except in "Insiang" the focus is less on Othello's downfall and more on Iago's creation. "Insiang" is atypical of Brocka's work, in that it's unusually tight and coherent (look at Brocka's other films--"Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang" (You Were Judged and Found Wanting, 1974), and "Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag" (Manila in the Claws of Neon, 1975)--for examples of meandering, scattershot scripts). It's also the rare Brocka film that displays true ambiguity--by the end of the film, it's almost impossible to establish for certain who was good and who evil, who the raped and who the rapist (again, look at Brocka's other films, particularly the later ones--"Bayan Ko" (My Country, 1985) and "Orapronobis" (Fight for Us, 1989) for simplified notions of good and evil). You blame and sympathize with all three alike, dancing helplessly in an interlocked chain of lust and loathing. The film is unique in another sense--Philippine cinema is dominated by the twin themes of love of mother and survival of the family; almost all Filipino films revolve around some aspect of either two. "Insiang" takes these two great, overarching themes and, with an unmatched ruthlessness, dashes them to the ground, shatters them, reveals them to be the fallacies that they really are. The film is saying: "there are no guarantees, not from family, not even from mother; if anything, the most painful betrayals are inflicted by mother and family. You are ultimately alone."
User Review - 10/10 by cresyl joy bgreat classic film.i can't believe that Hilda Koronel was only 14 yrs old in this movie.such a great actress..
User Review - 10/10 by Ivan DWhat? This wasn't released in 2007; it was released in 1976. I demand someone to correct it right now as I don't know how to. I think I have a bizaare affection for revenge films, and revenge is even better when mixed with melodrama and set in the slums of the Philippines. Revenge hasn't tasted this so sweet especially you ruin your mother's life and kill her manipulative and gold-digging boyfriend at the same time. Lino Brocka, look at what has happened to the Philippine film industry today; it's mostly loads of Hollywood-like crap. Help us.
User Review - 10/10 by Jayson PLino Brocka's 1976 melodrama of slum family love double-crosses was the first Filipino film to be shown at Cannes and is being revived at festivals. It deserves to be seen for the female actors, mother Tonia (Mona Lisa, credible as an aging lady who's still highly sexed and attractive) and gorgeous daughter Insiang (pronounced "Inshang"). Hilda Koronel, who plays Insiang, is enough like a Loren or a Lollobrigida to make you think of Fifties or Sixties Italian cinema and the visual style is conventionally of an early period, but this brutal story lacks the humanity and warmth of the Italians. Tonia drives a family of in-laws out of her shack (which is in with other families; in this barrio there is no privacy and all is known) because she can't feed them, but her ulterior motive is to bring in Dado, a handsome, macho man and a gambling no-good probably young enough to be her son, as her lover. Insiang has several young men interested in her, but the one she chooses is too cowardly and lazy to run away with her as she would like. Soon Dado puts the make on Insiang. It turns out badly for just about everyone in this miserablist drama, which has been compared to Fassbinder and Sirk. It's been commented that the story undercuts the two major values in Filipino film â?? motherhood and the sanctity of the family. Brocka certainly keeps things lively, as do popular dramatic films from other Third World countries, and telenovelas. Yes, this holds the attention; but unfortunately the print used for the NYFF 2006 showing was an ugly-looking digital transfer that made all the boys look pimply and the shots look shoddy. Only Koronel's face shines through.
User Review - 10/10 by Ronald SA classic Filipino film. Revenge, bertrayal, jealousy set in Manila slum. Very intense. Great acting piece.
User Review - 10/10 by Damien Bamazing, tragic, merciless, great acting btw it was made in 1976 not 2007!
User Review - 10/10 by Jerome Banother fine movie from the philippines! (& made in the 1970s at that!)
User Review - 10/10 by Irvin CA stunning piece of Filipino cinema. Insiang is a young woman who lives in the slums of Manila. After a series of mistreatments (to say the least) by her mother, her mother's lover and her boyfriend, she exacts revenge. Hilda Koronel, playing the title character, gives probably one of the best performances in Filipino cinema (or any cinema really). Also compelling is Brocka's commentary on the unfortunate all-too familiar look into lives in the impoverished areas and the inherent sexist attitude of certain aspects of Filipino society.

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