At first glance, Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen's "Ilo Ilo" is a familiar tale. A family in Singapore hire a Filipina maid to care for their irate 10-year-old son, an Asian brat extraordinaire. Eventually the boy bonds with the maid, and the two become closer to each other than their real families, much to the annoyance of the boy's mother. But 15 minutes in you realize that at its core, "Ilo Ilo" isn't about family or bonding or love. It's about surviving the increasingly excessive capitalistic world in which money reigns over every aspect of our lives. That's certainly true of the family in "Ilo Ilo," as mother, father and son obsess and worry and fret over cash and income.