Movie Review: SEVEN SUNDAYS directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina

Two things why I watched this movie:

1. Free

2. Enrique Gil

Need me to elaborate? Sure you do. The second one though doesn't need elaborating. 

I figured SWEARING OFF OF TECHNOLOGY for a week is close to suicide and is as boring as hell.

So I went with my sister to city today to hang and chill, we've decided we'd watch a movie, and bam! Seven Sundays! And she's covering for the ticket and the food (like always) so WIN!

Onto the review~

It's a heart-wrenching story soo timely about a family that is imperfect with baggages yet their issues made it perfectly good. Dude, I cried buckets because I swear it's very relatable.

While I couldn't say much about having a parent working abroad, I have a brother who is so I understood about a fraction of family long-distance relationship.

Ronaldo Valdez (the father), have worked years abroad, while in there, his children found a way to continuously update him on the handful of things going in on them or their family through making a letter, folding them and putting it on a huge biscuit-can so hemd be able to read them when he came back home for vacation. This have gone on for many years until..

Allan (Aga Mulach), the eldest, got his own family with Donita Rose, who's striking as ever as his wife with 4 children, one who is Kyle (of the Voice Kids) whose idol is Tito Brian. As the eldest, the family business- ABC store was handed to him because.. He's got family, he needs it more.

Brian (Dingdong Dantes), found a steady job working stellarly in a company, legal department, and which money isn't a question.

Cha (Christine Reyes), got her own family as well, with 3 children and as Kian Cipriano as her husband who by the way is good with his children but failing miserably as a husband.

Dex (Enrique Gil), got himself in trouble, job-related being an event social advertiser.

With them all being grown-up, father already in the picture because 69 years old. It's his birthday, and each of his family is MIA. Called each. Can't make it. But sure, his doctor could. And he only have 7 weeks of his life as greetings for his birthday.

So there. Informed everyone and bam! Family meeting.

This is the part where a lot has been going on and you'll also feel a lot because they'll give you soo much to feel for.

Siblings together quarrel like real sibs, argue here and there even with the simple things. That's how siblings roll, right? However, their arguments have gone from over-due harbored grudges each one onto the other to the point that they're pissing each other off.

But they have agreed to one thing: convening every Sunday to spend time with their father who's dying.

The sad reality about this is that, we only realize someone is important if that person is soon to leave us and cannot be there whenever we want to see them. We just let them exist, without existing WITH them. It's godsdamn tear-jerking. We all have that Lolo, Lola or old man as a Father or mother we left at home because we're already building our own family that we forgot we ARE THEIR family, too.

The good twist there was that, the initial findings was wrong. Spoiler alert. The choice though NOT to tell everyone that it wasn't cancer, is both understandable and plain wrong.

So yes, I understood why the children had gotten furious, because who wouldn't? Worrying is a bitch.

But I also understand why the father has had to keep it. And in the end, it was all an eye-opener to each one which was good because the ending was satisfying. 

Seven things, though.

1. You shouldn't keep things from your family. They'd always ALWAYS be on your side no matter what.

2. If the family is under duress, you're not suffering alone. Do NOT distance yourself.

3. A good intention DOES NOT make behavior that is intrinsically disordered (in its object) good.

4. Our choices indeed equates what we make of our life. So make good choices!

5. We cannot choose our family, but we can always make something GOOD out of ourselves for our family.

6. Make time for our parents. They may be annoying for most of the time (because nagging and older self), we can only have ONE PAIR OF PARENTS. Lucky, if they're both together still, lotsa people out there have only one to keep.

7. Lastly, LET'S TAKE GOOD CARE OF OURSELVES. Love ourselves soo much that we could avoid to suffer from diseases or sicknesses that would cost our lives in and out of hospitals rather than making awesome memories with the people we oh so love sooo immensely.

We CAN do that, right?

ALL IN ALL, A MUST-WATCH! And I recommend, each of the family to at least watch it if you all can't go together. Very relatable.

PS. Enrique Gil **I'm forevs a fan. Of him and of Liza Soberano. 💛 also, because he look like someone I once loved, or still do. Lol

Best,

Shemelle