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Mariquina: Padilla, Shirley G. 12 HUMSS Cheerful

The movie Mariquina is a 2014 independent film that follows Imelda Guevarra, whose shoe maker father Romeo commits suicide by jumping off a bridge. The film explores Imelda's grief and confusion as she deals with her father's death and troubled business. After Romeo's death, Imelda struggles to find the perfect pair of shoes for his casket as she reflects on their difficult relationship and her childhood without her mother. The film is a tragicomedy that examines Imelda's tragedies through two periods of her life as a teenager and adult.

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Mariquina: Padilla, Shirley G. 12 HUMSS Cheerful

The movie Mariquina is a 2014 independent film that follows Imelda Guevarra, whose shoe maker father Romeo commits suicide by jumping off a bridge. The film explores Imelda's grief and confusion as she deals with her father's death and troubled business. After Romeo's death, Imelda struggles to find the perfect pair of shoes for his casket as she reflects on their difficult relationship and her childhood without her mother. The film is a tragicomedy that examines Imelda's tragedies through two periods of her life as a teenager and adult.

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Mariquina (2014)
The movie was a 2014 independent film directed by Milo Sugueco and written by Jerrold Tarog. It was about a
garment factory owner named ImeldaGuevarra played by Mylene Dizon and her shoe maker father,Romeo portrayed
by Ricky Davao exploring grief, confusion, guilt and regret. The movie took place in two prominent periods in Imelda’s life:
as a teenage and an adult.The film’s genre was a tragicomedy that mainly focused on the tragedies of Imelda’s life.
Perhaps the only comedic thing about the movie was when she was finding a fit pair of shoes for her deceased father. The
movie started off when Romeo took his own life by jumping off a bridge. Then, confused adult, Imelda was also troubled
with her business having demanding clients and failing quality control over her products. During the wake, her aunt Erlie
was determined to find the perfect pair of shoes for the late loved one. She requested Imelda the simple task. However,
finding shoes only gave her bittersweet sentiments of her marred childhood. This part of the movie gives me a glimpse of
how it was back then for Imelda when she was a teen whose mother left and when her father’s business was in
shortcomings. In an attempt to find the right shoe for her deceased father, she found herself being confused as to why her
father would commit suicide.
To be honest, it was a deeply emotional movie at the same time generously chaotic. A distant father to a
daughter,Romeo trying to reconnect the ties and heal open wounds caused by the leaving Leonor.Romeo did not even had
second thoughts on chasing and pleading her to come back. Maybe because, heal ready knew thats heal ready fell out of
love. There are memories that are hard to forget, "move on" does not mean forgetting happy memories as well as sad ones.
The progress for healing the wounds of yesterday has not been easy. But make it an inspiration to move forward again. To
summary all the director successfully crafted a brilliant senseful mellow slice of life featuring an intense coming-of-age story
that really immersed audience to the characters. I applaud the actors for such amazing talent that I saw. The writer has to
be praised for creating such immersive plot. One question as to why did Romeo committed suicide remains unanswered or
visible. It is a very commendable movie that I gratefully admire for its powerful of the heart story.
“The deeper she searches for a pair of shoes, the more she start to
truly realize what was in her heart” in that word, to say that we
are looking for an answer to every question in our minds we are not
aware that the answer is just around, we just do not notice.

Padilla, Shirley G. 12 HUMSS Cheerful

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