Volver

     Volver is Spanish for return, and it is the name of the movie that was shown at Signs and Wonders last night. My opinion of the movie: it was pretty lame. It just doesn't stand out to me as a unique movie, except for the twists where you thought it might be a story about ghosts, and then it turned out there were no ghosts at all. However, it is pretty much a story about ghosts, in a figurative sense.
     Now that I've looked up the translation for "volver", I'm wondering why exactly that name was picked. Was it because the grandmother returned from the dead, (although she actually was never dead) or was it because the grandmother symbolically returned from the dead (she had been gone for about four years, and everyone had thought she was dead) or was it because the abuse that had happened to Raimunda almost returned and happened again to her daughter, or was it a mixture?
   But the thing I would most like to know is, why was this movie picked for Signs and Wonders? Like I said, it seemed pretty lame to me. What is there to learn from this movie? What is there to enjoy except a few funny moments from the grandma? Sure, you can learn about loyalty from Augustina, and how she wouldn't talk on the t.v. about her friends' family, and you see the loving mother-daughter relationship returned (gasp!) to Raimunda and her mom, but you can see loyalty and mother-daughter relationships on tons of movies. I'm not saying this movie stank, I just don't think it was very special. Except for the ghosts that weren't ghosts.