Minsan Lang Sila Bata is a Filipino documentary film featuring the lives of random children from different parts of the Philippines, facing the same predicament of living life of tiring labor to cope with the harsh realities of poverty.Child labor raises national concern but to provide resolution to it is not easy because of the complexity of the problem. As the documentary pointed out very well, the children, although unattractively thin and bony, frail and helpless are being persuaded by their parents in order to help the family rise above the struggle of poverty. The parents (which were not mostly featured in the film) were pushed by circumstances to make such decision for their children (who are clearly not in the proper age and condition to handle arduous jobs).
It was not easy being child laborer. The work was hard and the environment was not friendly for their young breaths. The money was too small even for their small hands to hold. The blood, the sun and the dust are all penetrating not just in their skin but also in their hearts.
I can never blame them. Why didn’t they refuse and insist that they should be holding toys and pencils instead? They were caught in a situation that they could not escape. Of course, before they think of theirselves, they have to think for the welfare of their family. They love their parents.
I can never blame their parents. (The children didn’t blame them too.) They love their daughters, they love their sons — those are given. However, why didn’t they sacrificed or at least became wise before planning to raise sons and daughters? But they are already there… breathing. Love per se can not put rice on their plates.
RATING: ★★★★★
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