This film was very powerful as it showed a tribute to women. All the women in the moive were on their own and look how they supported themselves, none of them needed a man. They had jobs, and were very hard working. Raimunda was so creative with that resturant and did what she had to do to make it work, and what a success it ended up being. She had went through so much, starting from when she was a child being raped by her father and getting pregnate, to her husband trying to rape her own daughter. There was so much stress and difficulity, yet she rose above it. It also show the same thing happening to her mother, and both of these awaful husband were killed. Her sister was the same way, making a great living by having a salon in her home, no man. This film also makes the men of this culture look like pigs. Not only did they cheat and leave their wives, they were sexually abusive. To see the women carry on the way they do was amazing to watch.
Two supperstitious beliefs in the film were how this villiage belives once one dies, they come back as a ghost. The two sisters thought Irene had died and came back a ghost and were able to communitcate with her, when Irene wasn't really dead at all.
The other belief was that you get your grave stone before you die and do the up-keep on all them in the cemetary to keep the dead village people at peace while they were dead. You can tell how the younger peolple (Raimunda's daughter) thought that was weird.
Jenna, you make a good point that all of the women in this film were able to support themselves and did not need a man in their lives. The men that they had in their lives were very unsupportive if they were there at all. Each of the women (Raimunda, Sole, Aunt Paula, and Augustina) all had to learn how to live their life without the support of a man…and they did a great job! I almost forgot how smart Raimunda was to jump on the opportunity to open the restaurant to the film crew. I too mentioned that fact that people believing that somebody can come back from the dead as a ghost was a superstitious belief portrayed in the film. I had forgotten about the belief the village had about the up-keep on cemetery… Good point!
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Jenna,
ReplyDeleteWere you able to catch some of the issues related to incest and sexual abuse? It is the hard-core of the film to expose the issues that women experience in the Hispanic world.