VOVLVER

I truly enjoyed this movie. This was a movie about a woman who was very strong in many different situations. In the very beginning of this movie it showed a lot of people mainly women cleaning graves of the deceased. I found this to be very bizarre and I would also say that it was also on the superstitious side. After the grave site they- Raimunda, Paula her daughter and Sole her sister went to see their Aunt Paula. You can see in the beginning that Aunt Paula was not fond of Sole. Aunt Paula did not get around so well and was very shaky. Raimunda wanted to take her home with her one day but she has no room. Raimunda questioned Aunt Paula on how she survives and she says she does okay. Once they go home Paula the daughter sits down and her father looks at her in a seductive way and it was very gross. I found that very disturbing. One night Paula is waiting for Raimunda at the bus stop and she tells her something happened. Once they get home she sees Paco on the floor dead. Paco tried to rape Paula and she stabbed him to death. Raimunda cleans up the mess and tells Paula that she did not kill him that she did. Paula also asked about whether Paco was her father and he was not. They hid his body in a freezer at a restaurant and while she was there one day a man came and asked if she could fix lunch for his crew while they were filming a movie. Raimunda went and got some vegetables and on the way she asked a friend for some pork that she got and from another friend she got sausage from her and she would pay them back the next day. This went on for a while. Then one day Aunt Paula died and Sole went to the funeral and Raimunda did not want to go. When Sole was at Aunt Paulas house she saw her mothers ghost and it scared her. After the funeral she went home and someone was knockning inside her trunk. The voice screamed that it was her mother. Sole opened the trunk and it was her. Sole still believes that she is still a ghost who brings luggage. Irene the mother is living with Sole and then Paula sees that her grandmother is alive and everytime when Raimunda comes over she hides. In the end Raimunda goes and buries Paco by the river and finda out that her mother is alive. Raimunda never had a good relationship with her mother and she finda out why. Her mother tells her that she was sorry that Raimunda's father raped her and that is how Paula came about and that her father had been having an affair with Augetsines mother. Irene went and set fire to this house they were in at one of the times they were together and killed them, she never got caught. Everyone assumed that it was Irene that was dead and Augestines mother just vanished. So in order not to get caught she kept hidden and stayed with Aunt Paula and everyone thought that it was a ghost.

This movie was a great tribute to the strength of women and of what women have to go through and still survive. The other superstitious part of the movie that I noticed was about people talking of the East wind making people crazy. That does not happen or we all would be in big trouble.