Thy Womb Movie Review
SETTINGS:
The movie was shot in a remote part of the Philippines – Tawi-tawi Island in Southern Mindanao. The province is a seaweed producing area in the southernmost part of the Philippines down to the Malaysian and Indonesian archipelagos.
CHARACTERS:
Shaleha (Nora Aunor) – a Badjao midwife who is a selfless wife who will do anything just for the happiness of her husband.
Bangas- An (Bembol Roco) – husband of Shaleha who craves to have a child
Mersila – the woman who Bangas-An wishes to marry
PLOT SUMMARY:
Shaleha works as a midwife, she had delivered many babies of other women but never had her own. She also keeps the umbilical cords of the baby in their house. Aside from being a midwife, she is a typical submissive wife who goes about her day helping her husband in fishing, weaving, and other households. Bangas-an -- her husband, longs to have a child, to add to the poignancy, but since it’s too late for Shaleha to have a child.
Other than being childless, Shaleha and Bangas-an seem to have the perfect marriage, love, respect, humor, and mutual understanding. Yet, this lack of a child is viewed as a lack of divine grace and they need s child to make their marriage whole. Therefore, they began to go about a search for a suitable girl who can provide them with the family they crave for, and of course whose family will agree to the proposal, and try to find enough money for a dowry.
Eventually, they find a suitable girl at a decent price and the couple are relieved and happy. Her name is Mersila. But the agreement was not without condition, and this was to leave his wife when the first child is born. This condition left Bangas- An choice between his wife or the child. . The ending was when Shaleha has the simultaneous joy and heartbreak of delivering and assisting the birth of her husband’s long awaited child.
REACTION:
The movie was very nice. It made me realize things other than what I am leaving at now. The film
The movie was shot in a remote part of the Philippines – Tawi-tawi Island in Southern Mindanao. The province is a seaweed producing area in the southernmost part of the Philippines down to the Malaysian and Indonesian archipelagos.
CHARACTERS:
Shaleha (Nora Aunor) – a Badjao midwife who is a selfless wife who will do anything just for the happiness of her husband.
Bangas- An (Bembol Roco) – husband of Shaleha who craves to have a child
Mersila – the woman who Bangas-An wishes to marry
PLOT SUMMARY:
Shaleha works as a midwife, she had delivered many babies of other women but never had her own. She also keeps the umbilical cords of the baby in their house. Aside from being a midwife, she is a typical submissive wife who goes about her day helping her husband in fishing, weaving, and other households. Bangas-an -- her husband, longs to have a child, to add to the poignancy, but since it’s too late for Shaleha to have a child.
Other than being childless, Shaleha and Bangas-an seem to have the perfect marriage, love, respect, humor, and mutual understanding. Yet, this lack of a child is viewed as a lack of divine grace and they need s child to make their marriage whole. Therefore, they began to go about a search for a suitable girl who can provide them with the family they crave for, and of course whose family will agree to the proposal, and try to find enough money for a dowry.
Eventually, they find a suitable girl at a decent price and the couple are relieved and happy. Her name is Mersila. But the agreement was not without condition, and this was to leave his wife when the first child is born. This condition left Bangas- An choice between his wife or the child. . The ending was when Shaleha has the simultaneous joy and heartbreak of delivering and assisting the birth of her husband’s long awaited child.
REACTION:
The movie was very nice. It made me realize things other than what I am leaving at now. The film