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La visa loca (2005)
La Visa Loca is a very catchy title for the movie
La Visa Loca is a very catchy title for the movie.In fact, the title itself gives a bird's eye view of the movie. It depicts the central motif of the film.It shows the reality how a piece of "booklet" could drive millions of people "crazy", as if that thing could bring them to "heaven". It is one of the best Filipino Films I very saw. Padilla delivers his best in his career as an actor. This is not only because of his good performance but also to the content of the movie as a whole. It portrays the typical Filipino mentality of looking at the United States as a the land of milk and honey. That thought, that staying in that country promises better life, better future.Furthermore, the film shows a lot of the common "Filipino Culture" like for instance, the children's responsibility to take care of their aging parents, the importance of "female virginity" for Filipino men, and of course the Spanish influence of the "Holy Week Tradition". To wrap it up, the movie as a whole is a portray of a very realistic Filipino way of living, a piece of work which presents the "many realities" of the Filipino culture in a very simple but thought provoking strategy.