Andoy Ranay's Sossy Problems (or Sosy Problems, but "sosy" isn't actually the correct spelling, is it?) is an indolent movie. While there are some room for potential improvements in its entirety, the movie is ultimately bugged down by its forcible execution.
The story pivots around four posh young women. Lizzy (Rhian Ramos) is a spoiled daughter sent to the province to immerse on non-bratty ways. Danielle (Bianca King) is an ex-governor's daughter whose family is facing grave financial issues. Margaux and Claudia (Solenn Heusaff and Heart Evangelista) are parted best friends because of their rival beauty queen mothers.
It's a sad fact that many movies today serve as commercial venues. The movie took effort to have beauty expert Vicki Belo practically promotes the products and services in her clinic. This abruptly stops and further weakens the already weak script. As I often say, this is cheap filmmaking.
Unfortunately, the movie's commercialism, or excess thereof, is not the only issue here. Sossy Problem also falls flat in the direction department. The storytelling is lazy that the movie feels half-full; and towards the end it feels contrived. The documentary gimmick (featuring Ruffa Gutierrez and Tim Yap) was lost in the middle and completely vanished in the end - one of the movie's many flaws in continuity.
TV director Ranay has his way of making things light though, making one temporarily forget about the movie's issues. There was one scene in which the great Nova Villa is perplexed to see the girls drinking from her chamber pot (arinola). "Ano'ng ginagawa niyo sa arinola ko?" asks her. The girls look back, equally perplexed, then retorts a question: What's arinola?, too dimwits to realize their drinking from a plastic urinal. Pissssssss.
Like the main characters in it, Sossy Problems is a material so driven by money that it literally agrees on putting up a (sort of) advertisement. Uninspired and indolent, the movie is best encountered when you've got the hours to waste.
VERDICT: D
It's a sad fact that many movies today serve as commercial venues. The movie took effort to have beauty expert Vicki Belo practically promotes the products and services in her clinic. This abruptly stops and further weakens the already weak script. As I often say, this is cheap filmmaking.
Unfortunately, the movie's commercialism, or excess thereof, is not the only issue here. Sossy Problem also falls flat in the direction department. The storytelling is lazy that the movie feels half-full; and towards the end it feels contrived. The documentary gimmick (featuring Ruffa Gutierrez and Tim Yap) was lost in the middle and completely vanished in the end - one of the movie's many flaws in continuity.
TV director Ranay has his way of making things light though, making one temporarily forget about the movie's issues. There was one scene in which the great Nova Villa is perplexed to see the girls drinking from her chamber pot (arinola). "Ano'ng ginagawa niyo sa arinola ko?" asks her. The girls look back, equally perplexed, then retorts a question: What's arinola?, too dimwits to realize their drinking from a plastic urinal. Pissssssss.
Like the main characters in it, Sossy Problems is a material so driven by money that it literally agrees on putting up a (sort of) advertisement. Uninspired and indolent, the movie is best encountered when you've got the hours to waste.
VERDICT: D
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