#sanctissima

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Sanctissima

A film directed by Kenneth Dagatan. A cinemalaya production.

Kenneth Dagatan a director who has overcome his fears of watching horror films by making himself to watch alone as an achievement. 

And I quote; “And I promised myself I would watch “The Ring” (the older one) to watch it alone. So I watched it alone because that was the time I was interested in filmmaking and as I was watching it I was like ‘Oh, they did a good job making this horror film.’’ 

https://asianmoviepulse.com/2019/07/interview-with-director-kenneth-lim/

This was a beginning for him to start experimenting on how he would make his own horror films as an inspiration to himself for doing something scary for us children would do. 

As he was interviewed he stated that for Sanctissima that thing that would be an important element within the film was the ‘cause-and-effect’ idea. Because you would immediately vision that happenings then after causing a domino effect to the idea of your desired story making it continuously play and play finally finishing the film.

This film is about the old lady who lives in a barrio age setting and who, apparently harbors a gore-ish living by helping women with problems relating to birthing problems or the women just want to throw away the fetuses inside them by aborting them with the aid of the abortionist Marissa.

Marrisa who happens to be the old lady’s name, lives alone with no one aside from her profession of helping her patients which are women who harbors pregnancy complications or just simply want to abort fetuses inside them, relieving them of their pain and suffering from the real world that they have in contact with. With a twist of course. In the house of Marissa, home of an entity that keeps Marissa a slave to her own guilt. A demon spawn whom the aborted fetuses are chopped into limbs therefore turned into a dish for the demon to feast on.

From the film setting it was a silent yet abruptly disturbing settlement the film gives a vibe in which everyday reality happen (them eating fetuses are real believe it or not). It’s just like your everyday lifestyle but in our imagination we cannot discord these events to not happen.

The panning alterations from the film shows how connected and in an instant we know the story doesn’t have cuts and it just go continuously telling the progress of the story with cliffhangers that you ask yourself, what on earth happened, stuff like that.

To every Horror and Drama genre that these types of film have, they all try to expose the viewers into a reality truth told from your childhood stories that you wouldn’t want to dream about, from the demon spawn of satan, yes, to the bloody spurs of guts, who wouldn't want to experience that if that were you in the set.

Sanctissima proves that some thing that looks so innocent, friendly, and helpful isn’t the case. Later on it could be someone putting motives on your disadvantages and then pursue such tragedies to give themselves a good ending, selfishly. 

You thought that there’d be jump scares but no, sanctissima offers the best meal for your stomach to afford on. From the eerie feeling to blood guts spreading everywhere.

To me, Sanctissima is a hidden mine for someone to stumble upon on, facing the brute, utter disgusting reality that we are at. Then once you try watching the film itself clarifies and opening to more jurisdictions and questions to which one finds.

It’s a great film, smooth interface and action.

[ayanelath]

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✃:People of mixed blood

She holds a poor view on Dalish elves having mixed blood children. It is.. heavily frowned upon, and she believes that’s for good reason. It’s a bit traitorous, not to mention dangerous, for Dalish elves to be seen with non-elven children. It is dangerous to the Dalish reputation (of stealing or mistreating human children) and it is traitorous because there aren’t enough Dalish children and she thinks that they have a duty to uphold to their people.

Ayane would frown on city elves mixing with humans but not for the same reason. It would make her uncomfortable given the way humans treat elves in their cities, but she would be  more tolerant of it.

Her views of mixed blood people themselves mostly depends on whether they appear and behave human. She’s suspicious of humans and that extends somewhat to mixed blood humans. Otherwise, her opinion is neutral.

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Literally so relaxing! 

Sanctissima - Libera