Volver

I think that this movie is a tribute to women and their resilience because Raimunda had lived through a terrible tragedy, being impregnated by her own father while her mother stood by and did nothing. She still managed to raise a wonderful daughter, and while she worked very hard for what she had by performing many different jobs, she still persevered. She immediately believed her daughter when she learned what had happened and never once questioned her or tried to blame her. Raimunda should have gone to the authorities, but seemed to do a pretty good job of covering up for her daughter. I think she did not want her daughter to have to go through a trial or the embarrassment of telling anyone what had happened. Raimunda and Sole also had survived the fire that presumably killed their parents and still seemed to have pretty good lives. Sole ran the illegal beauty shop to support herself, her husband had been missing for two years. I thought for sure that there would be a story about that in the end, explaining what happened to him, but there was not.
Can you identify the tension between superstitious beliefs and real life aspects through the film? Provide at least two examples. I think the biggest example is that people actually saw Irene caring for Aunt Paula and assumed that she was a ghost. No one questioned that Irene might actually be there and someone should investigate where Augustina's mother really was. Also during the shooting of the television show with Augustina it is said the town where she lived had the highest rate of insanity. I'm am not sure if that was true, or because the people were so immersed in their superstitious beliefs that it made others think they were crazy. This was a wonderful film.