In the same manner that I learned a lot from (the late) direk Marilou Diaz-Abaya by just listening to her in our daily conversation. â€œYou get many inputs from them when you interact in the classroom. What many donâ€™t realize is that teachers learn from students as well.

The director has been an assiduous student and teacher of filmmaking that he can now share what it was like to be a student and what he now enjoys as a teacher. The result is a poignant and highly-entertaining film on campus life.

Up to the very end of the film, it was super ensemble acting at its best.ĭirek Mark is in touch with the generation of Bob Ongâ€™s Roberto and you get all the signposts of the â€™70s and â€™80s. His supporting cast in the persons of Meg Imperial and Vandolph Quizon are just as excellent. Jericho Rosales as Roberto has a winning role here and his transition from high school to college life is surprisingly credible. She is discouraged, of course, and in the long run, she turns into lesbian. As it turns out, the classmates end up in the movie theater where she gingerly tries to touch the hands of her classmate. The scene where a young student asks her classmate that they do their assignment in a shopping mall was the loudest howler at the UP Film Center where the film had its premiere screening. In the film, you re-encounter the typical public school teachers and students, the sorry state of the classrooms and of course, the first signs of sexual awakenings. MANILA, Philippines - Director Mark Meilyâ€™s Aba, Nakakabasa Na Pala Ako?! (ABNKKBSNPLAKo?!) based on Bob Ongâ€™s book of the same title has many things going for it.įor one, it is one big nostalgia trip on anyoneâ€™s school life, particularly those who went to public schools.

Aba nakakabasa na pala ako by bob ong