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The film Taklub portrays the emotional devastation experienced by three families - Bebeth, Larry, and Erwin - in Tacloban, Philippines almost a year after the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan). Bebeth has lost three children and tries to help a man named Renato who lost his entire family. Larry's wife died in the typhoon and he copes through religious rituals. Erwin and his brother try to hide their parents' death from their younger sister. The survivors struggle with homelessness, untreated wounds, and lack of basic needs as the government response has been inadequate. They band together to protect each other as more storms threaten

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The film Taklub portrays the emotional devastation experienced by three families - Bebeth, Larry, and Erwin - in Tacloban, Philippines almost a year after the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan). Bebeth has lost three children and tries to help a man named Renato who lost his entire family. Larry's wife died in the typhoon and he copes through religious rituals. Erwin and his brother try to hide their parents' death from their younger sister. The survivors struggle with homelessness, untreated wounds, and lack of basic needs as the government response has been inadequate. They band together to protect each other as more storms threaten

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REACTION PAPER

TAKLUB
BY: Brillante Mendozas

Many victims of typhoon Yolanda in Tacloban . thousands were


killed and almost all the lost homes and livelihoods .

many

came to help . but not enough to meet the suffering of the people
there . Almost a year has passed but still no change in
Tacloban . mang renato is devastated by typhoon Yolanda . they
survived . but also her family died because of the fire they
temporarily occupy . because of the death of any family 's Renato
has all the resentment her . almost like she has coopted the
waves of the sea . most pitifully that happened to be renato .
which was bebeth . One also affected by the storm . she
also lost a child . but she can not firm she lost hope in life .
very bebeth because of which women's rights she helps typhoon
victims kidding homeless . Contribute she container contribution
to help with mang renato . and also brought him something to eat
when other people do not really eat . bebeth be like all those
affected by the storm . firm, unyielding, and kind
Larry (Julio Diaz) lost his wife, consoles himself by
joining a group of devout Catholics carrying a life size cross
around the city.

Erwin (Aaron Rivera) and his elder brother try to hide the
truth of their parents death from their little sister.
As if grieving from the loss of their loved ones is not
enough, a series of turn of events - man made and natural,
continue to test the endurance of the characters along with the
rest of the people, awaiting for a time to wipe those slow
repugnant tears."

sparse trees , broken poles , ruined houses and


establishments , accumulated scattered along the road , almost
leafless trees , deleted communities , dead lined the road ( and
many others were believed to be under debris untouched ) ,
survivors of the storm that saves herself again against hunger ,
wounds untreated , and no resting habitat.

After the Supertyphoon Haiyan, which changed the city of


Tacloban in the Philippines into its horrendous state, the lives
of Bebeth, Larry and Erwin intertwine. The survivors are left to
search for the dead, while keeping their sanity intact, and
protecting what little faith there may be left. A series of
events continue to test their endurance.
Taklub, Filipino auteur Brillante Mendozas portrait of
three surviving families a year after Typhoon Yolanda ripped
through the city of Tacloban, is more concerned with their

emotional devastation than with the physical aftermath. Shot in a


no-frills documentary style that echoes its subjects
deprivation, the film is at once intimate and detached in its
dramatic economy,
Super Typhoon Yolanda ( international respectively Typhoon
Haiyan ) is a costly hurricanes to hit the central Philippines in
November 2013.ay one of the strongest storm recorded in the
world, and the second strongest recorded typhoon hit the
Philippines , killing at least 3,976 people .

Caused widespread destruction the storm in the Philippines ,


especially in the Isle of Samar and Leyte , where the governor
estimated that at least 10,000 people died in the city of
Tacloban alone .

Cast

Nora Aunor - Bebeth

Julio Diaz - Larry

Aaron Rivera - Erwin

Rome Mallari - Marlon

Shine Santos - Angela

Lou Veloso - Renato

Ruby Ruiz - Kagawad Duke

sparse trees , broken poles , ruined houses and


establishments , accumulated scattered along the road , almost
leafless trees , deleted communities , dead lined the road ( and
many others were believed to be under debris untouched ) ,
survivors of the storm that saves herself again against hunger ,
wounds untreated , and no resting habitat.

Tacloban city, Leyte island, Eastern Visayas, central


Philippines, 2014. Almost a year after the city was devastated by
Typhoon Yolanda (known internationally as Typhoon Haiyan), little
action has been taken by the government to deal with the
homelessness and social problems caused. Bebeth (Nora Aunor), who
runs a carinderia (small eating place), has lost three of her
children and now has only her teenage daughter Angela (Shine
Santos) left; pensioner Renato (Lou Veloso) has just lost his
whole family in a fire among some tents; young fisherman Erwin
(Aaron Rivera) and his brother Marlon (Rome Mallari) try to hide
the death of their parents from younger sister Daisy; and the
widowed Larry (Julio Diaz) descends into masochistic religious
rituals in order to handle his grief. Bebeth tries to collect
money to help Renato, and also to get her ex-husband, tricycle
driver Angel (Soliman Cruz), to register his DNA to help identify
their children's bodies among the dead. When a tsunami is

rumoured to be on its way, the population is evacuated to the


city's Astrodome building for protection; in the event, the
warning proves unfounded, with just strong winds and rain.
Afterwards, Daisy and her brothers move back into their shoreside
shack, which has suffered only minor damage, but find a thief
making off with some of the corrugated iron. Due to government
inaction, some of the homeless organise a petition. And with
another typhoon, Lolit, now expected, people band together to
rescue another of their number, Aunt Soping, from a landslide
caused by the recent storm.

SOME 132,000 poor families remain homeless and still


live in tent cities and bunkhouses in Tacloban City and other
areas devastated by super typhoon Yolanda two years ago as
President Benigno Aquino III has yet to approve the release of
P54 billion for housing resettlement, former national treasurer
Leonor Magtolis Briones said

Friday.

Twenty months after Yolanda washed away homes and flattened


Eastern Visayas, the government has yet to finish building
resilient permanent homes for 205,000 families that were rendered
homeless, a study by Social Watch Philippines and Christian Aid
concluded.

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