Movie review: Thelma makes us want to keep on going
Running remains intense 16 years later but Thelma, which hits theaters September 7, handles it with a lot more subtlety.
No blatantly-inspirational anthems were shown to cheer on Thelma (Maja Salvador), a runner from Laoag City in Manila on an athletic scholarship, as she tries to balance training, studying, and worrying about her family back home. If anything, the audience almost expects Thelma to lose. Saddled with guilt over a car accident that crippled her sister Hannah (Eliza Pineda) and worried about her sick mother, Floring (Tetchie Agbayani), nobody in the theater would have blamed her for packing her bags and heading home.
In one of the movie's most honest scenes, Thelma considers quitting to take care of her sickly mother. She asks her athlete boyfriend Sammy (Jason Abalos) for advice, but he has nothing to offer. Sammy, the son of a carpenter and a housewife, is himself considering giving up his scholarship to work as a seaman. He wasn't even supposed to go to college, he says, since his father wanted him to work right after high school. Little more than a teenager himself, any pep talk from him would have been preachy, sappy, and fake.
Where Mark Anthony had Claudine to lean on, Thelma essentially has nobody. She gets to talk to her family whenever she sends her allowance home, but they are hundreds of kilometers away and can only talk for a few minutes. Her relationship with Sammy meanwhile is a just a sidebar.
Given how she has to train every day while keeping her grades up, that is all it deserves to be.
But Thelma is more than just the story of a gifted athlete trying to make it to the Philippine team. A fast runner, Thelma did not want to be on the team at all, preferring to run from the police with stolen empanadas in hand. She only started running to earn money for an operation that might make Hannah walk again after she got run over on the highway. Thelma blames herself for not crossing the highway with her sister like they usually do and joins a local marathon for the prize money.
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