Screw "Ploning", THIS Should Have Been OUR Oscar Film

Pinoys should be bummed out about "Slumdog Millionaire's" success. It could've easily been our movie. Easily.

1. Vast slum areas: check.

2. "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire": check, although ours would have to be a period film where award-winning actor Christopher De Leon plays the petty game show host. Or we could do a contemporary version where we have to watch Kris Aquino play herself for an entire movie. Uhhhmmm...let's go with the period film.

3. Street children syndicates: check.

4. Densely populated railway stations: check.

5. Call centers: check, although our agents would have to look more like the typical Friday night crowd at "Embassy".

6. A lazy/unnecessarily brutal police force: check.

7. Movie stars idolized by the masses: check, although I'm not so sure about the makeshift portalets; I think we're way more liberal in the shitting anywhere department.

8. Non-sequitur dance scene: check, we could even dust-off Roderick Paulate and Maricel Soriano for our totally gratuitous end credits dance number.

How could we have not thought of this first? Since we're being routinely left behind by the rest of the third-world in almost every social aspect (economy, arts, the western world's pity) , are we sure we're not "fourth world" yet?

In other news, "You Changed My Life" is currently breaking box-office records.

Dahil diyan, bigyan natin ang Pinoy Movie Industry ng...POWER HUG!