Retaso

“Retaso” is the story of two women who think that together they can be strong enough to escape everything. But only when the two become one, can they truly be free…-Dianne Marie Combalicer Retaso literally means remnants of cloth but in this film, it symbolizes and explains the true significance of the characters and how retaso represent their life. I enjoyed watching this Independent film because I’ve realized something about Lesbians. Delsa is a sewer in a clothes factory where even the visits to the comfort room is regulated. Her child passed away and only a piece of shoes was left for her to remember her child. She lives alone in a small room in a squatter’s area and always opens her door to her neighbor Lena who runs to her every time she had a trouble with her husband Ryan. Lena, is a former artist who does laundry to earn a living for her husband and herself. Her husband Ryan has been trying to find a job but he seems to be running out of luck. This misfortune hits Lena too as she becomes an outlet for Ryan’s frustrations. Lena is abused as a wife, both sexually and physically and still he stays with his husband because she thinks that he really loves her until, finally, one night when she went to Delsa’s house to hide, she discovered that her husband is willing to have sex with Delsa. Delsa do that to Ryan just to protect Lena and serves as Lena’s eye opener to realize everything about her husband. They are both the retaso of this film, Retaso is used to cover the hole of a cloth and if you analyze well the story it has something to do with the character’s life. The hole of the clothes symbolizes their problem, and the retaso is the redeemer to help save and cover the cloth. Delsa’s work symbolizes that she is the Retaso who fix and help Lena to cover the problem that she have. Lena is a retaso because her husband Ryan abused her whenever and wherever he wants to. He treated her as a leftover, useless piece of cloth and uses her only when he needs her. Retaso of cloth is also used to kill Ryan, since both of them are Retaso, they now realized when to become one they can be strong enough to escape everything. For me, by watching this film people are trying to understand how and why lesbianism exists.