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Bibi

November 28, 2023
By Ch3wrld BRONZE, Sacramento, California
Ch3wrld BRONZE, Sacramento, California
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Favorite Quote:
" Don't distract her from being great don't interrupt her peace of mind if you're not man enough to stand firm beside her don't waste her time don't even speak to her" - R.H Sin


The man with memorable flashbacks, Bibi is a short film about a man named Bencaline who is a lawyer busy with phone calls in a formal suit and tie with a suitcase walking. He receives a call about a loved one who is close to him that had passed away. As he gets into a car and drives while still on the road on a phone call with his father's new wife or girlfriend. He gets flashbacks of when he lost his mother and was grieving as a young boy on the bed to a letter his mother had left him. His father comes in to cheer him up and mentions how he also misses his wife and offers to read the letter to Bencaline that the mother left behind for him as Bencaline cried. His father came up with an idea if Bencaline was okay with writing letters to his father. 


In the short film Bibi, the good thing about this film is that Bencaline gets flashbacks of what went on in his childhood challenges he faced like bullying and confronting his father. Bencaline's father was someone who understood his son and found ways trying to communicate to him in a way that he was comfortable with as a young boy. For example, when Bencaline left a letter for his father when he came back from playing soccer in the kitchen for his father to read about what happened to him while playing soccer. Another scene I think that is good is when Bencaline had a flashback talking to his father at a restaurant while his father congratulated him on becoming a lawyer and how proud he was of Bencaline that turned into a disaster between him and his father  after the conversation. As the conflict happened between them, Bencaline father leaves disappointed at him walking away slowly out the restaurants as Bencaline stand there hopelessly. 


The bad part of this short film Bibi is when Bencaline meets a man. Who could the man be? He seemed nice by judging on the outside. I didn’t enjoy that part because it felt like a cliffhanger on the edge of something new for Bencaline. As if he was going to discover something that can connect him to his father and that man he met. The man standing there with a positive expression on his face in front facing towards Bencaline without saying a word while Bencaline is still sad over the death of his lost loved one. 


In conclusion, this short film had lots of flashbacks of Bencaline and his father. There are positive and negative family relationship scenes in the film like the situation that happens with Bencaline and his father. With different types of emotion expressed through letters and being said in the film. His father tries his best to understand and be open minded where Bencaline is coming from, expressing himself through letters like how his mother did when she left the letter for Bencaline.


The author's comments:

This writing piece was a fun and challenging obstacle for me using lots of thought processing in every sentence makes sense to my reader to understand. 


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