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    Reflection Paper 7 Sundays

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    Seven Sundays is a film by Cathy Garcia-Molina about a widowed father, Manuel Bonifacio, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and only has seven weeks to live. He decides to tell his four adult children - Allan, Bryan, Cha, and Dex - about his illness in hopes of bringing the estranged family together. Each child is facing their own personal problems and conflicts. Through overcoming their lack of communication and understanding each other, the family is eventually able to settle their differences and accept each other before the father passes away.

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    Reflection Paper 7 Sundays

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    Seven Sundays is a film by Cathy Garcia-Molina about a widowed father, Manuel Bonifacio, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and only has seven weeks to live. He decides to tell his four adult children - Allan, Bryan, Cha, and Dex - about his illness in hopes of bringing the estranged family together. Each child is facing their own personal problems and conflicts. Through overcoming their lack of communication and understanding each other, the family is eventually able to settle their differences and accept each other before the father passes away.

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    Seven Sundays is a film by Cathy Garcia-Molina about a widowed father, Manuel Bonifacio, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and only has seven weeks to live. He decides to tell his four adult children - Allan, Bryan, Cha, and Dex - about his illness in hopes of bringing the estranged family together. Each child is facing their own personal problems and conflicts. Through overcoming their lack of communication and understanding each other, the family is eventually able to settle their differences and accept each other before the father passes away.

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    Reflection Paper 7 Sundays

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    Seven Sundays is a film by Cathy Garcia-Molina about a widowed father, Manuel Bonifacio, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and only has seven weeks to live. He decides to tell his four adult children - Allan, Bryan, Cha, and Dex - about his illness in hopes of bringing the estranged family together. Each child is facing their own personal problems and conflicts. Through overcoming their lack of communication and understanding each other, the family is eventually able to settle their differences and accept each other before the father passes away.

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    “Seven Sundays”

    By: Cathy Garcia-Molina

    Seven Sundays, a film directed and created by Cathy Garcia-Molina isn’t just an
    ordinary ups and downs situation of a Filipino family; instead, it tackles these deep
    sources of challenges and success, on what’s behind these situations.
    Manuel Bonifacio, a widowed father of the family, found out that he was diagnosed
    with cancer and only have seven weeks to live and accomplish what he hasn’t done
    yet. Bonifacio had four offspring named Allan, Bryan, Cha, and Dex, who were all
    occupied in their own respective lives. As Bonifacio had felt lonely because of the
    situation, he decided to tell the whole family about his current health situation to bind
    them all together at the very last time as he is still alive.
    The Film shows one of the many issues in the real world, lack of communication.
    The four children barely had time for each other which results in miscommunication,
    misunderstanding, and chaos inside the household. Beyond these arguments, each
    one of them was facing huge conflicts.
    Allan, the eldest son of the family, was charged with bankruptcy in their family
    business, to which he displays displeasure toward his younger brother.
    Bryan, a successful businessman of his own, is the younger brother after Allan. Later
    in the film reveals that both Allan and Bryan had this tension between them for years,
    for the reason of their differences, more specifically with handling money, business,
    and handling decisions of the whole family.
    Cha, the only daughter, had been going through an unhealthy marriage life with her
    husband who is cheating on her multiple times in their marriage. They have children
    of their own, but cha mostly takes good care of his children. Due to her unfortunate
    situation with his marriage and his husband, Cha kept his situation and problems
    from her family specifically with her husband’s unfaithfulness.
    Dex, the youngest child of the four, is the black sheep of the family. Was influenced
    negatively by his friends and he created this as a coping mechanism to run away
    from his problems. Later in the film shows how he was neglected and always left
    alone as a child.
    After that, it also shows the family’s lack of transparency and understanding of each
    other. The children wouldn’t stop arguing and would always stick to their own
    perspective, even with little things such as what the father would eat. Bonifacio, only
    wanted to see his children on good terms before he passes and pretended to die
    anytime soon.
    After watching the film, I am still bothered by the thought that the family situation
    could be solved if they had been more open-minded and understanding with proper
    communication to prevent misunderstanding and not let their feelings take over their
    own selves in communicating and solving the family problems. Considering that the
    Bonifacio family really went through rough roads just to learn from their mistakes.
    The important thing is that at the end of the film, they settled and accepted their
    differences, put down their pride and chose love.

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