Review of The Seventies

A quintessential, though rather stereotypical, look at a Filipino family living in the 1970s: a patriarchal father that seeks to hide all forms of emotion, a tired housewife that centers her entire life around her family, a good-looking, responsible first-born son that runs off to be a rebel and fight for a greater cause, a second son that gets a girl pregnant (every 70's family's worst nightmare) and becomes an OFW, and a third son that gets picked up by the police one night and found murdered in a dump site. But the movie is one of raw power, pregnant with meaning from every end, and one that will touch the hearts of Filipinos who still feel the ghost of martial law in their midst.