Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Debt Collector

     The Debt Collector is a foreign film from the Philippines about gambling.  This film is about a woman who goes around her village stealing people's money by collecting lottery numbers from people.  The people give this woman their lottery numbers, in which she charges a price for their bet.  What the people don't know is that the woman isn't collecting their money for a lottery raffle, but actually stealing their money.  The woman intends on using the stolen money for paying her debts, in which she states that she's trying to just "make a living".  Eventually, the cops catch her gambling for other people's money on the streets, and she's brought in to talk to the main police chief.  Rather than being sentenced to time in jail, the police chief actually places his own bet with the woman (this occurs with another police officer, as well).  As a result, the woman walks out of the police station with more money in her pocket.  At the end of the movie, two men get into a fight in the middle of the street because one guy crashed the other guy's car, in which one of them pulls out a gun.  One guy tries to run away and the other guy attempts to shoot him, but misses and kills the woman's son.  She also realized that she has been shot in the shoulder, which makes her cry.

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