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Himala
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Himala ("Miracle") is a 1982 Filipino film, starring Nora Aunor. Himala is the story of Elsa, a barrio lass whose visions of the Virgin Mary change her life and cause a sensation hysteria in a poor, isolated northern village in the midst of drought. The film is centred on the issues of religious faith and faithlessness, morality, and truth. Elsa, in her speech on the hill, delivered the film's (and Aunor's) most famous line, which is quoted above.Himala became a box-office hit, earning an impressive 30 million pesos, becoming one of the highest grossing Filipino films in the 1980s. It was digitally restored by the archiving and restoration arm of media company ABS-CBN and finally released on Netflix in 2022. | |
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| Himala / int_13e3985d | type |
Crucified Hero Shot | |
| Himala / int_13e3985d | comment |
Crucified Hero Shot: Elsa freezes in a particular pose that evokes such an image when she was suddenly shot while professing to the people. Played straighter when her lifeless body is being carried to the ambulance as the people gravitate towards her. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Elsa after being raped along with Chayong, seeing her dead body hanged, and witnessing the death of people under the hands of an epidemic which caused her to stop healing. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Some see as Elsa's profession to the people as this when she speaks with open arms to the people that there are no miracles and it is only people who create miracles, curses and gods. And then, she was shot. | |
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Gratuitous Spanish | |
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Gratuitous Spanish: Mrs. Alba referring to Elsa's sudden pregnancy not knowing it was the result of a rape "Immaculata [sic] Concepcion". Even then, she's describing a different phenomena altogether (a Virgin birth). | |
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Total Eclipse of the Plot | |
| Himala / int_1dab5333 | comment |
Total Eclipse of the Plot: Elsa sees and hears the Virgin Mary during a Solar Eclipse as shown in the beginning. Actually, the eclipse is the first thing we see and the story starts there instantly. | |
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Framing Device | |
| Himala / int_1e1afc1b | comment |
Framing Device: When the director professes to the priest about his sin on leaving Elsa and Chayong being raped as he shamelessly films it all, faraway shots of the scene from his camera are shown. | |
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Crapsack World | |
| Himala / int_21d70919 | comment |
Crapsack World: The town is set in an almost desert-like landscape, thanks to a drought believed to be a curse after they drove away a leper. Then there's the townspeople... | |
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Only Sane Man | |
| Himala / int_24321e44 | comment |
Only Sane Man: Elsa's adoptive mother is the only one that doesn't get caught in the miracle hype and she's mostly seen interacting with her daughter. Besides Orly and the priest, she's also shown to be somewhat skeptical, only going along with it for her daughter's sake. | |
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Death of a Child | |
| Himala / int_269e82c1 | comment |
Death of a Child: A cholera epidemic kills Sepa's children and Aling Pising's child. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
| Himala / int_294ed981 | comment |
Bilingual Bonus: Meta-example: The subtitles in the film have both English and Japanese. | |
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Recurring Extra | |
| Himala / int_3b789458 | comment |
Recurring Extra: The crazy lady (Aling Pising, the beggar) that carries her child (which eventually dies, due to an epidemic) everywhere, asking for help to random passersby. | |
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Mysterious Waif | |
| Himala / int_421e0f6a | comment |
Mysterious Waif: Elsa is found by her adoptive mother on a hill, which would be the same hill where she starts seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. | |
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Ambiguous Gender | |
| Himala / int_4510b368 | comment |
Ambiguous Gender: Aling Pising's child, simply because of the subtitles referring to both genders. The English subs mostly referred to the child as "child" but in one scene, referred to it as "son" while the Japanese repeatedly referred to the child as "娘 (musume)" which means daughter. | |
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Peaceful in Death | |
| Himala / int_48dbd87b | comment |
Peaceful in Death: Elsa, as she finally breathes her last breath, in contrast with the cacophony below. | |
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Scenery Gorn | |
| Himala / int_49d18492 | comment |
Scenery Gorn: Many, many scenes of the stampede that took place after the shot was fired to Elsa. | |
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Downer Ending | |
| Himala / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: After delivering her Final Speech to the watching crowd about how 'there are no miracles', she gets shot by a random gunman, causing a violent stampede. She dies in the arms of her 'apostles' and the people mourn her death as she is taken away in an ambulance. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
| Himala / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: Subverted. While it is not known who exactly is Elsa's killer and why he had done it, he is seen being beaten up by several men in response to his actions. | |
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Prayer Pose | |
| Himala / int_630f60bd | comment |
Prayer Pose: Elsa, kneeling with hands clasped together and her head tilted up high to the Heavens. | |
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Arc Words | |
| Himala / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "ELSA LOVES YOU" | |
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold | |
| Himala / int_77063cd7 | comment |
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Nimia, who worked as a prostitute back in Manila. She later opens a cabaret to earn money for her father, only for it to be shut down by Elsa's apostles. | |
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Healing Hands | |
| Himala / int_7913eb6f | comment |
Healing Hands: Elsa is believed to possess this ability, hence being labeled a "faith healer" by the villagers. Later deconstructed as Orly, a journalist doubts her so-called miracle. | |
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Defiled Forever | |
| Himala / int_813afa05 | comment |
Defiled Forever: Elsa and Chayong were raped by two drugged men on the way to the hill where they often went to pray. Afterwards, Elsa has not been able to see the Virgin Mary and stopped healing due to the following epidemic and deaths. Though it was Chayong who took it the hardest... | |
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Go Out with a Smile | |
| Himala / int_88f16cee | comment |
Go Out with a Smile: Elsa seemingly gives a faint smile before finally succumbing to the gunshot wound on her chest. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: The random gunman's motive behind shooting Elsa. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| Himala / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: Elsa described seeing the Virgin Mary with a wound on her chest "like from a gunshot". | |
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Karma Houdini | |
| Himala / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Elsa and Chayong's rapists seem to receive no retribution for their crime. It doesn't really help that nobody knows who exactly they are. | |
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EpicFilm | |
| Himala / int_b4f0170e | comment |
Epic Film: Of sorts. The poster even had the words "with a cast of thousands". Subverted since the film was worked with a pretty average budget and there are no expensive sets. Most of the actors used are also not as famous as Nora Aunor. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
| Himala / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Were there really no miracles? | |
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Reality Has No Soundtrack | |
| Himala / int_d5139ac | comment |
Reality Has No Soundtrack: Apart from a short sting in the beginning, the entire movie has no music except for incidental songs used in several scenes. | |
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Two Decades Behind | |
| Himala / int_dc26326 | comment |
Two Decades Behind: The movie could've been set in the actual year the incident occurred—that is, The '60s. But as soon as Elsa mentioned having been found by the hill in 1958 and her age being 24, add that, and the year was actually set at then-present 1982 (also in Chayong's gravestone, her year of death is 1982). The barrio of Cupang is just so deserted and poverty stricken that it justifies the Crapsack World setting and how out of the curve they are. | |
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Mama Bear | |
| Himala / int_e13156e1 | comment |
Mama Bear: In one scene, Elsa's mother, having had enough with people constantly pestering Elsa, topples a table full of blessed water, exclaiming that she'll be back tomorrow and everyone should leave. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: An incident between 1966-1967 about a teenage girl and the alleged Marian apparition. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Himala / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: The two men who make fun of Elsa just after the deaths of several villagers including Chayong from suicide, causing her Heroic BSoD. | |
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Silent Credits | |
| Himala / int_ebbf48c0 | comment |
Silent Credits: In keeping with Reality Has No Soundtrack, the credits roll without any music whatsoever. | |
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The Fundamentalist | |
| Himala / int_f76842b1 | comment |
The Fundamentalist: The beggar often shouts "Go to hell!" to any people who have done her wrong. Most of the time it's because people refused to give her money and when her child dies, she blames Elsa, crying that she will go to hell. | |
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Old Maid | |
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Old Maid: Elsa is 24 years old and is already perceived as an old maid by some of the men in the village. | |
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