Bata, Bata pano ka ginawa (Reaction Paper)

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Bata, Bata paano ka ginawa?
During those times, it is a fact that the mere roles of our beloved mothers is to stay at house and take care of their children They don’t have the voice at their own house, they were not able to do things that they really want to do. They was just to stay in the four corners of the house which was really not right. But this stereotype role of women in the society was diversified in this movie. Lea Bustamante, a women who express things that comes into minds, who for for her family even though she is a woman, a mother, have 2 children namely Oggie and Maya.

Oggie and Maya treat each well though they have different father. Lea have a husband and have Oggie as the result of their love but they end up breaking up. After that, Lea has an affair with another man and has Maya as a result of their love. Oggie and Maya grew up open to the world, they do and express what they think is right. Oftentimes, they argue about who really their mother loves. Lea has so many problems with men, on her first husband, they broke up because she wants to be free, she don’t want that her life will be limited because she is not that type of women. On the second, they love each other but as time goes by, with the fact of Lea’s attitude, the man leaves her and found another.

At the near end of the story, there was a conflict that it has been up to the point that the two fathers of her children was near her, not only literary also emotionally. And there was a time when she can’t handle all the problems and suddenly she’s just being sick of being a mother and it seems that she has forgotten her roles of being a mother. Because of office works, her mind was mainly based on her work which makes the two men angry because she can’t handle work and family at the same time. They said that she must quit her job, but she doesn’t follow because she doesn’t want to be dictated on what she must do.

There was also an instance where in there was an accident that happened with her two child but she was at work so obviously she was not the first to know about it. When she came in to the hospital, the two fathers were waiting for her. She was accused of being careless of her children and that the children must be out of her hand because it will not do any good if the children are with her. She was so sick of all the problems and was then giving up.

Lea talks to her children about the decision that the children were about to make, if they will stay with their mother or go with their respective fathers. They was making things clear while the mother, on the other hand was thinking about what she will do, she have thought that a women can live without a man. And it is most important to children to grow up with their mother beside them. A mother can always understand but father seldom does. A mother mostly understands you because you came from her.

Suddenly, May and Oggie go back to their mother because they realize that even though their life wasn’t completely perfect, they know that life wouldn’t be perfect without it being incomplete. Meaning, life being imperfect makes it perfect. They also realize that no matter what happens, their mother will always and forever will be their mother.

Back then where females where not given so much importance, Maya was there, prove to people that Females and Men are just same and equal human being, There shouldn’t be things that are restricted only for men. Women should be free and has the freedom to do whatever they want. Women, without them, men are not complete.