Honor Thy Father Analysis

“Ano ang hindi mo gagawin para sa kanya?” a tagline from the movie entitled Honor Thy Father. This tagline means “what can you not do for him?” which is a really a rhetorical question when it pertains to your family. Honor thy Father is a Filipino film with a genre of crime, drama and thriller. It was mainly all about a family that wants to get by to their lives and lately experienced lots of tragedy as they entered the ponzi scheme that is owned by the father of Edgar’s (Cruz) wife, Kaye (Soriano) who was lately proved as scam, so the couple endure the violent wrath of their fellow parishioners, determined to get their money back. Honor Thy Father tackles similar subject matter such as crime, class and family but above all of this it portraits the Filipino Church. The story gave me reaction in two perspective …show more content…
This wasn’t a very hard question to answer because it was being answered in the film. Basically the word “nothing” takes place. There is nothing you cannot do for your family. Wherein, as we all know every one can do everything for their family. This made me felt sad. In this story, Edgar can do everything for his wife and daughter even it may lead him to do grievous sins which is really not favorable to his religious wife. Imagine, stepping on Edgar’s shoe. Would you even do the same thing? probably most pretentious people would say “no” but if we were all in his situation, yes. We would probably do the same thing or worst than that especially if that important thing is your family. I realized this is great love can do. It may done bad but there’s good in it. After watching the film, it made me think that instead of using the tagline “what can you not do for him?”, it would be nice if “what will you do if you have him?”. A father who is willing to do everything for the sake of his