Meily has quite a bag of tricks here, and he’s definitely not scrimping.
Words of juvenile love letters pop out from the paper with mock elegance. Narrations are accompanied by quickly edited montages. Directed by Mark Meily, the movie version approximates the book’s charms with a bit of visual inventiveness. It is therefore not surprising that the book was eventually made into a movie.
Sure, the book does rely on the device characterized by nostalgia, but at least it does so with such colloquial flair that it is almost impossible not to get hooked.
While the book namedrops various references to ‘80s and ‘90s pop culture to tickle readers’ fancies, what really makes Ong’s work so memorable is its depiction of what seems to be a shared attitude towards a recent past. MANILA, Philippines – The pleasures of Bob Ong’s ABNKKBSNPlako?! are not hinged on its generic plot but on its unabashed appreciation of all things close to being forgotten from decades past.
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