Reaction Paper

REACTION PAPER 

“TAKLUB”

BY: Brillante Mendoza ’s

Many victims of typhoon Yolanda in Tacloban . thousands were killed and almost all the lost homes and livelihoods .

many

came to help . but not enough to meet the suffering of the people there . Almost a year has passed but still no change in Tacloban . mang renato is devastated by typhoon Yolanda . they survived . but also her family died because of the fire they temporarily occupy . because of the death of any family 's Renato has all the resentment her . almost like she has coopted the waves of the sea . most pitifully that happened to be renato .

which was bebeth . ne also affected by the storm . she also lost a child . but she can not firm she lost hope in life . very bebeth because of which women's rights she helps typhoon victims kidding homeless . !ontribute she container contribution to help with mang renato . and also brought him something to eat when other people do not really eat . bebeth be like all those affected by the storm . firm" unyielding" and kind

#arry $%ulio &ia( lost his wife" consoles himself by )oining a group of devout !atholics carrying a life sie cross around the city.

*rwin $Aaron Rivera( and his elder brother try to hide the truth of their parents’ death from their little sister.

As if grieving from the loss of their loved ones is not enough" a series of turn of events + man made and natural" continue to test the endurance of the characters along with the rest of the people" awaiting for a time to wipe those slow repugnant tears.,

sparse trees " broken poles " ruined houses and establishments " accumulated scattered along the road " almost leafless trees " deleted communities " dead lined the road $ and many others were believed to be under debris untouched ( " survivors of the storm that saves herself again against hunger " wounds untreated " and no resting habitat.

After the -upertyphoon aiyan" which changed the city of Tacloban in the /hilippines into its horrendous state" the lives of 0ebeth" #arry and *rwin intertwine. The survivors are left to search for the dead" while keeping their sanity intact" and protecting what little faith there may be left. A series of events continue to test their endurance.

1Taklu"2 3ilipino auteur

Brillante Mendoza ’s

portrait of

three surviving families a year after Typhoon Yolanda ripped through the city of Tacloban" is more concerned with their

emotional devastation than with the physical aftermath. -hot in a no+frills documentary style that echoes its sub)ects’ deprivation" the film is at once intimate and detached in its dramatic economy"

-uper Typhoon Yolanda $ international respectively Typhoon aiyan ( is a costly hurricanes to hit the central /hilippines in 4ovember 5678.ay one of the strongest storm recorded in the world" and the second strongest recorded typhoon hit the /hilippines " killing at least 8"9:; people .

!aused widespread destruction the storm in the /hilippines " especially in the agawad &uke

sparse trees " broken poles " ruined houses and establishments " accumulated scattered along the road " almost leafless trees " deleted communities " dead lined the road $ and many others were believed to be under debris untouched ( " survivors of the storm that saves herself again against hunger " wounds untreated " and no resting habitat.

Tacloban city" #eyte island" *astern =isayas" central /hilippines" 567?. Almost a year after the city was devastated by Typhoon Yolanda $known internationally as Typhoon aiyan(" little action has been taken by the government to deal with the homelessness and social problems caused. 0ebeth $4ora Aunor(" who runs a

carinderia $small

eating place(" has lost three of her

children and now has only her teenage daughter Angela $-hine -antos( left@ pensioner Renato $#ou =eloso( has )ust lost his whole family in a fire among some tents@ young fisherman *rwin $Aaron Rivera( and his brother Marlon $Rome Mallari( try to hide the death of their parents from younger sister &aisy@ and the widowed #arry $%ulio &ia( descends into masochistic religious rituals in order to handle his grief. 0ebeth tries to collect money to help Renato" and also to get her e+husband" tricycle driver Angel $-oliman !ru(" to register his &4A to help identify their children's bodies among the dead. Bhen a tsunami is

rumoured to be on its way" the population is evacuated to the city's Astrodome building for protection@ in the event" the warning proves unfounded" with )ust strong winds and rain. Afterwards" &aisy and her brothers move back into their shoreside shack" which has suffered only minor damage" but find a thief making off with some of the corrugated iron. &ue to government inaction" some of the homeless organise a petition. And with another typhoon" #olit" now epected" people band together to rescue another of their number" Aunt -oping" from a landslide caused by the recent storm.

-M* 785"666 poor families remain homeless and still live in tent cities and bunkhouses in Tacloban !ity and other areas devastated by super typhoon Yolanda two years ago as /resident 0enigno ACuino