History Film / PagAsa

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* AmbiguousSyntax: When Mang Sebio explains to Piding his plan to enter Celing into a radio singing contest, he says her voice will be heard all over the country because it'll use electricity to travel that far. That chat over, Sebio promptly brings Celing to the nearest radio station to sign up. The problem is, the way Piding interprets it, is that they're going to "a station with electricity" … and when Lola Teria hears his version, she's horrified, thinking that Mang Sebio was arrested, brought to a ''police'' station, and about to be sent to the ''electric chair''!

* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Piding dies (oh so dramatically) in Celing's arms after he's hit by a speeding bus. He was running away from the approaching Doña Esperanza, who'd been threatening to send him to the dreaded Lulumboy.]]

* PercussiveMaintenance: The night that Celing is due to sing on the radio, the receiver the whole ''barangay'' (village) is tuned into won't work. Victor accidentally fixes it with a good hard smack.

* SweetPollyOliver: Celing dresses up in male clothes (a farmer's woven hat, plaid shirt, and jeans) when escaping from Doña Esperanza's house with Piding. When the two of them sneak a free ride at the city carnival (in part to escape detection), Victor catches them and almost assaults her, mistaking her for a man—and he brings them both to his home, Lola Teria, his mum, quips that he finally got married—[[MistakenForGay to a man at that]]!

* SlobsVsSnobs: There's definitely a class-war dimension going on what with the rural-poor Celing and Piding pitted against the very rich, and very cruel, Doña Esperanza (and this is a common trope in many other Filipino movies and ''[[{{Telenovela}} teleseryes]]''), but the big [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], in terms of upper-class morality alignment, is her own husband, the benevolent and protective Don Paco. (There are also less-than-sympathetic characters among the poor, including the rather spoiled and shrill yet working-class [[TheChanteuse torch singer]] Leona, who behaves like a less-extreme version of Doña Esperanza towards Celing and Piding.)

* SlobsVsSnobs: There's definitely a class-war dimension going on what with the rural-poor Celing and Piding pitted against the very rich, and very cruel, Doña Esperanza (and this is a common trope in many other Filipino movies and ''[[{{Telenovela}} teleseryes]]'', but the big [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], in terms of upper-class morality alignment, is her own husband, the benevolent and protective Don Paco. (There are also less-than-sympathetic characters among the poor, including the rather spoiled and shrill yet working-class [[TheChanteuse torch singer]] Leona, who behaves like a less-extreme version of Doña Esperanza towards Celing and Piding.)

* SlobsVsSnobs: There's definitely a class-war dimension going on what with the rural-poor Celing and Piding pitted against the very rich, and very cruel, Doña Esperanza (and this is a common trope in many other Filipino movies and ''[[{{Telenovela}} teleseryes]]'', but the big [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], in terms of upper-class morality alignment, is her own husband, the benevolent and protective Don Paco. (There are also less-than-sympathetic characters among the poor, including the rather spoiled and shrill yet working-class [[TheChanteuse torch singer]] Leona, who behaves like a less-extreme version of Doña Esperanza towards Celing and Piding.)