Everyday, we see different faces of criminals featured in the police report segments of both Saksi on GMA-7 and TV Patrol on ABS-CBN. However, I've always wondered how these people are really like away from their unlawful activities. Like how do they live, eat and breathe?
Unfortunately, in most local movies, the parts of criminals (even if they are playing protagonists) are always written in such a way that they often come out as dull cardboard characters.
In Star Cinema's La Vida Rosa, we finally see hooligans in their everyday conditions' living, loving and hoping for a better life. Givng flesh to these hoodlum characters in the film are Diether Ocampo and Rosanna Roces.
Directed by Chito Roño, La Vida Rosa casts Roces and Ocampo as con artists who get involved in all sorts of criminal activities: kidnapping, carnapping, theft, etc. They actually operate under the supervision of an underworld boss, played by Vic Diaz.
