LM (Junk It, Jonathan!) 🏳️🌈 · @gabbielm
27th Oct 2020 from TwitLonger
116. Mariquina (2014)
Rating: 8.6
Heavy on sensitivity and melancholy, this film depicts a very realistic father-daughter story. I loved how the story unfolded through the nonlinear storyline supported by flashbacks and back n forth, past and present scenes - which is a very Jerrold Tarrog screenplay technique. I loved that although Imelda’s character was written with that cold facade at the beginning, she slowly would discover more about herself and about her dad and that would follow her character development until that breakdown scene in the car. The use of shoes as an important character in the story also helped convey the metaphors for different emotions the characters. From the white shoes for her mother, to the red shoes for Tess, and black shoes for imelda, it makes the audience think the significance of the symbolisms of these shoes. Very memorable scene was the whole restaurant scene when the mom was planning to leave. It was brilliantly choreographed! kuddos to the director. But one scene that really stuck to me was that telephone scene between imelda and her mother while the father was eavesdropping. It was too real to be a movie (I cried so hard). The cinematography, lighting and the whole color grading was perfect. Kuddos to the PD too!