Boy Negro

Conrad Poe plays the titular role of Boy Negro, a small time criminal who is trying to escape poverty, fellow criminals and the authorities. Boy Negro lives a life of crime but it doesn't stop him from being the dude that the women dig. He has streets smarts and a little of fighting ability but overall he is a nobody. Poe portrays the antihero with a black face in which was quite a normal sight to see in Filipino entertainment in general. The movie is quite slow and nearly two hours of vignettes of Boy being unlucky and just at the wrong place at the right time. It was partly based on a…