Volver

                I really appreciate the tribute to women and their resilience in the face of like’s most outrageous tribulations that the movie Volver displays. Raimunda reveals that she grew up feeling as though she was last on her mother’s list of priorities. Her daughter is really her sister, and after her husband attempts to rape her daughter, she defends what she has left of her pride and covers up the murder of her husband to protect her daughter. Raimunda was very strong and did a very good job at supporting her daughter when she really needed it. Raimunda worked every day of the week to support her and her daughter, and even ran a restaurant  behind the owner’s back to make money after her husband is dead.

                There are superstitious beliefs throughout the whole movie. First, the people of the village believed that the wind caused people to be “crazy”. I believe it was Sole that thought her mother had come back because she never quit thinking of her. Everyone believed that Sole and Raimunda’s mother had come back from the dead, when she never really died.

-Monika Carpenter