Sana Dati: A Narrative Essay

According to the film's blurb, Sana Dati is about "A Lifetime of Choices in a Single Day". The choices mentioned is to be made by a woman who feels painfully alone despite having the perfect groom whom her family and friends want her to be with. Her whole future would depend on the choices she would make on her wedding day. In an empty emporium stood a young lady named Andrea. She found a rose in a vase and an engagement ring in the soon-to-be-flower shop her boyfriend bought for her. He proposed to her and she readily accepted it, their glowing teary eyes showed so much love and happiness. Andrea, dressed like a bride was sitting in her hotel room and her family, relatives and friends came congratulating her on her wedding day. Everything was going right except that her shoes were left so her sister went back home to get them for her. Meanwhile, they were all waiting for the videographer to come and interview her about her pre-nuptial thoughts. Before Dennis, the hired videographer, went on his way to cover the wedding, he tampered a calling card of somebody named Andrew and changed it to his name.
He then arrived in Andrea’s room and began to interview her first, throwing questions about her love for Robert, her grooom. Andrea did not look nor sound thrilled for someone who is getting married in a few hours. She seemed emotionless in answering all the questions and she was not even looking straight at the camera. Then Dennis left the room and did the same for Robert. He answered the questions happily with his eyes directly upon the camera. During the interview, Dennis already figured out that something was preventing her from pushing through with the wedding. She accepted Robert's proposal only because her mother wants her to. Robert is a wealthy businessman and a good man with a good reputation. They first met in an election campaign and Robert started courting her. Dennis' questions directed Andrea to remember events from the past with her former