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->'''Bar Owner''': Even change and wash diapers? (''laughing'')
->'''Modesta''': And why not? Didn't someone put diapers on you when you were little? (''everybody laughs'').
->'''Modesta''': And why not? Didn't someone put diapers on you when you were little? (''everybody laughs'').
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'''Modesta''': And why not? Didn't someone put diapers on you when you were little? (''everybody laughs'').
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-->We acknowledge the right of women to ask us to make them happy. But, since we also want to be happy, that’s why we say, “More loving, less gossipping.”[[labelnote:Original quote in Spanish]]Reconocemos el derecho de las mujeres a pedir que nosotros las hagamos felices. Pero, como nosotros tambien queremos ser felices, por eso les decimos... más cariñito, menos bembeteo.[[/labelnote]]
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* NoNameGiven: Credits do not list the husband's name. He is simply “The Husband”. While some of the other neighbors have their names mentioned, their names are not listed in the credits, just included collectively as "residents of the barrio Soñ'adoras, barrio[note]neighborhood[/note] Soñadoras, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
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* NoNameGiven: Credits do not list the husband's name. He is simply “The Husband”. While some of the other neighbors have their names mentioned, their names are not listed in the credits, just included in collectively as "residents of the collective .barrio Soñ'adoras, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Modesta is reading the women’s list of demands for husbands. At hearing the third, that men must help care and educate children, the bar owner is dismissive.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Modesta is reading the women’s women's list of demands for husbands. At hearing the third, that men must help care and educate children, the bar owner is dismissive.
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* ChekhovsGun: The sticks of firewood Modesta is gathering. She breaks one off to strike her husband when he is calling her names and heaping abuse. During the league's first meeting, the firewood stick becomes a symbol of their efforts for equality. At the end, after both the men and the women agree that there should not be any physical violence, they all pair off and walk stepping over the the sticks.
* DomesticAbuse: The husband dismisses Modesta having trouble with her chores on account of being pregnant. He even threatens to beat her if the next baby is a girl, he is going to beat her. Later at the league's meeting, the neighbor who proposes a law forbidding men to hit their wives is sporting a black eye.
* DomesticAbuse: The husband dismisses Modesta having trouble with her chores on account of being pregnant. He even threatens to beat her if the next baby is a girl, he is going to beat her. Later at the league's meeting, the neighbor who proposes a law forbidding men to hit their wives is sporting a black eye.
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* ChekhovsGun: The sticks of firewood Modesta is gathering. She breaks one off to strike her husband when he is calling her names and heaping abuse. During the league's League of Liberated Women's first meeting, the firewood stick becomes a symbol of their efforts for equality. At the end, after both the men and the women agree that there should not be any physical violence, they all pair off and walk stepping over the the sticks.
* DomesticAbuse: The husband dismisses Modesta having trouble with her chores on account of being pregnant. He even threatens to beat her if the next baby is agirl, he is going to beat her.girl. Later at the league's meeting, the neighbor who proposes a law forbidding men to hit their wives is sporting a black eye.
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''Modesta'' is a short film from 1956, directed by Bernard Donziger and based upon a story by Domingo Silas Ortiz. It stars Antonia Hidalgo as the title character and Juan Ortiz Jiménez. All other roles are played by residents of the Soñscores ''barrio'' in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
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''Modesta'' is a short film from 1956, directed by Bernard Donziger and based upon a story by Domingo Silas Ortiz. It stars Antonia Hidalgo as the title character and Juan Ortiz Jiménez. All other roles are played by residents of the Soñscores Soñadoras ''barrio'' in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
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''Modesta'' is a short film from 1956, directed by Bernard Donziger and based upon a story by Domingo Silas Ortiz. It stars Antonia Hidalgo as the title character and Juan Ortiz Jiménez.
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''Modesta'' is a short film from 1956, directed by Bernard Donziger and based upon a story by Domingo Silas Ortiz. It stars Antonia Hidalgo as the title character and Juan Ortiz Jiménez. All other roles are played by residents of the Soñscores ''barrio'' in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
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* NoNameGiven: Credits do not list the husband's name. He is simply “The Husband”. While some of the other neighbors have their names mentioned, their names are not listed in the credits.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Modesta is reading the women’s list of demands for husbands. At hearing the third, that men must help care and educate children, the bar owner laughs off,
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Modesta is reading the women’s list of demands for husbands. At hearing the third, that men must help care and educate children, the bar owner laughs off, is dismissive.
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->'''Modesta''': And why not? Didn't someone put diapers on you when you were little?
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->'''Modesta''': And why not? Didn't someone put diapers on you when you were little?little? (''everybody laughs'').
* ChekhovsGun: The sticks of firewood Modesta is gathering. She breaks one off to strike her husband when he is calling her names and heaping abuse. During the league's first meeting, the firewood stick becomes a symbol of their efforts for equality. At the end, after both the men and the women agree that there should not be any physical violence, they all pair off and walk stepping over the the sticks.
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* TheReasonYouSuck: Modesta is just making excuses to avoid work and like all women, she is only good for having babies and gossipping.
* SleepingSingle: Modesta sleeps by herself in a double bed, while her husband sleeps in a hammock.
%%* SuspiciousAproposSong: “Una mujer en mi vida” (A woman in my life) is playing on the jukebox while the husband is brooding at the local bar.
* SleepingSingle: Modesta sleeps by herself in a double bed, while her husband sleeps in a hammock.
%%* SuspiciousAproposSong: “Una mujer en mi vida” (A woman in my life) is playing on the jukebox while the husband is brooding at the local bar.
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* TheReasonYouSuck: According to the husband, Modesta is just making excuses to avoid work and like all women, she is only good for having babies and gossipping.
gossiping.
* SleepingSingle: Modesta sleeps by herself in a double bed, while her husband sleeps in ahammock.
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* SleepingSingle: Modesta sleeps by herself in a double bed, while her husband sleeps in a
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* WinWinEnding: The women read their list of demands to the men. After a discussion, they come up with a contract that is agreeable to everyone. The contract acknowledges women’s demands to fair treatment (no physical abuse, help with heavier household tasks, etc.), while at the same time acknowledging how hard men work to provide- and that they will NOT wash diapers.
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* WinWinEnding: The women read their list of demands to the men. After a discussion, they come up with a contract that is agreeable to everyone. The contract stipulates that the sticks of firewood will no longer go into play (i.e. husbands will not hit wives and vice versa). It also acknowledges women’s demands to fair treatment (no physical abuse, help (help with heavier household tasks, tasks and child rearing, etc.), while at the same time acknowledging how hard men work to provide- and that they will NOT wash diapers.
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Modesta is a peasant young woman with two young kids and another one on the way. Fed up with her authoritarian husband constantly nagging her to do chores and manage the household, she and other women in the ''barrio'' (neighborhood) organize the "League of Liberated Women".
Modesta is a peasant young woman with two young kids and another one on the way. Fed up with her authoritarian husband constantly nagging her to do chores and manage the household, she and other women in the ''barrio'' (neighborhood) organize the "League of Liberated Women".
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Modesta is a peasant young woman with
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* AwfulWeddedLife: As soon as Modesta wakes up, her husband tells her to stop whining and complaining about her body aches and take care of the two kids.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Modesta is reading the women’s list of demands for husbands. At hearing the third, that men must help care and educate children, the bar owner laughs off,
->'''Bar Owner''': Even change and wash diapers? (''laughing'')
->'''Modesta''': And why not? Didn't someone put diapers on you when you were little?
* AwfulWeddedLife: As soon as Modesta wakes up, her husband tells her to stop whining and complaining about her body aches and take care of the two kids. When she fails to catch the chicken due to her pregnant belly, he accuses her of being useless right in front of his friends, who just nod.
* BeastlyBloodsports: The husband goes off to a cockfight. Somebody asks about a gamecock of his. He says it was useless and that he told his wife to catch it and stew it for dinner.
* TheDogBitesBack: After being on the receiving end of her husband's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Modesta breaks a stick of firewood over his head and runs him and his friends off.
* DomesticAbuse: The husband dismisses Modesta having trouble with her chores on account of being pregnant. He even threatens to beat her if the next baby is a girl, he is going to beat her. Later at the league's meeting, the neighbor who proposes a law forbidding men to hit their wives is sporting a black eye.
* DrowningMySorrows: Referenced by a sign at the local bar where the husband is hanging out:
->''Si toma para olvidar\\
Pague antes de tomar\\
(If you drink to forget\\
Then pay before you drink)''
* {{Hypocrite}}: The husband’s friends. They listen and nod while he insults her by calling her a gossip. And then they run off and tell a neighbor, who tells another guy, who tells someone else, and so on. The gossip finally reaches the neighborhood women.
* NoNameGiven: Credits do not list the husband's name. He is simply “The Husband”.
* TheReasonYouSuck: Modesta is just making excuses to avoid work and like all women, she is only good for having babies and gossipping.
->'''Bar Owner''': Even change and wash diapers? (''laughing'')
->'''Modesta''': And why not? Didn't someone put diapers on you when you were little?
* AwfulWeddedLife: As soon as Modesta wakes up, her husband tells her to stop whining and complaining about her body aches and take care of the two kids. When she fails to catch the chicken due to her pregnant belly, he accuses her of being useless right in front of his friends, who just nod.
* BeastlyBloodsports: The husband goes off to a cockfight. Somebody asks about a gamecock of his. He says it was useless and that he told his wife to catch it and stew it for dinner.
* TheDogBitesBack: After being on the receiving end of her husband's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Modesta breaks a stick of firewood over his head and runs him and his friends off.
* DomesticAbuse: The husband dismisses Modesta having trouble with her chores on account of being pregnant. He even threatens to beat her if the next baby is a girl, he is going to beat her. Later at the league's meeting, the neighbor who proposes a law forbidding men to hit their wives is sporting a black eye.
* DrowningMySorrows: Referenced by a sign at the local bar where the husband is hanging out:
->''Si toma para olvidar\\
Pague antes de tomar\\
(If you drink to forget\\
Then pay before you drink)''
* {{Hypocrite}}: The husband’s friends. They listen and nod while he insults her by calling her a gossip. And then they run off and tell a neighbor, who tells another guy, who tells someone else, and so on. The gossip finally reaches the neighborhood women.
* NoNameGiven: Credits do not list the husband's name. He is simply “The Husband”.
* TheReasonYouSuck: Modesta is just making excuses to avoid work and like all women, she is only good for having babies and gossipping.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Per the narrator, the person who told him the story assures that this tale he got from his great-grandparents, who got it from his great-great-grandparents, is absolutely true.
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%%* SuspiciousAproposSong: “Una mujer en mi vida” (A woman in my life) is playing on the jukebox while the husband is brooding at the local bar.
* UnreliableNarrator: Per the narrator, the person who told him the story assures that this tale he got from his great-grandparents, who got it from his great-great-grandparents, is absolutelytrue.true.
* WinWinEnding: The women read their list of demands to the men. After a discussion, they come up with a contract that is agreeable to everyone. The contract acknowledges women’s demands to fair treatment (no physical abuse, help with heavier household tasks, etc.), while at the same time acknowledging how hard men work to provide- and that they will NOT wash diapers.
-->We acknowledge the right of women to ask us to make them happy. But, since we also want to be happy, that’s why we say, “More loving, less gossipping.”[[labelnote:Original quote in Spanish]]Reconocemos el derecho de las mujeres a pedir que nosotros las hagamos felices. Pero, como nosotros tambien queremos ser felices, por eso les decimos... más cariñito, menos bembeteo.[[/labelnote]]
* UnreliableNarrator: Per the narrator, the person who told him the story assures that this tale he got from his great-grandparents, who got it from his great-great-grandparents, is absolutely
* WinWinEnding: The women read their list of demands to the men. After a discussion, they come up with a contract that is agreeable to everyone. The contract acknowledges women’s demands to fair treatment (no physical abuse, help with heavier household tasks, etc.), while at the same time acknowledging how hard men work to provide- and that they will NOT wash diapers.
-->We acknowledge the right of women to ask us to make them happy. But, since we also want to be happy, that’s why we say, “More loving, less gossipping.”[[labelnote:Original quote in Spanish]]Reconocemos el derecho de las mujeres a pedir que nosotros las hagamos felices. Pero, como nosotros tambien queremos ser felices, por eso les decimos... más cariñito, menos bembeteo.[[/labelnote]]
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This [[https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00045468/ film]] was named to the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry in 1998.
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This [[https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00045468/ film]] was named to the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry in 1998.
This [[https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00045468/ film]] was named to the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry in 1998.
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* SleepingSingle: Modesta sleeps by herself in a double bed, while her husband sleeps in a hammock.
* UnreliableNarrator: Per the narrator, the person who told him the story assures that this tale he got from his great-grandparents, who got it from his great-great-grandparents, is absolutelytrue.
This [[https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00045468/ film]] was named to the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry in 1998.true.
* UnreliableNarrator: Per the narrator, the person who told him the story assures that this tale he got from his great-grandparents, who got it from his great-great-grandparents, is absolutely
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''{{Modesta}}'' is a short film from 1956, directed by Bernard Donziger and based upon a story by Domingo Silas Ortiz. It stars Antonia Hidalgo as the title character and Juan Ortiz Jiménez.
Modesta is a peasant young woman with two young kids and another one on the way. Fed up with her authoritarian husband constantly nagging her to do chores and manage the household, she and other women in the ''barrio'' (neighborhood) organize the "League of Liberated Women".
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* AwfulWeddedLife: As soon as Modesta wakes up, her husband tells her to stop whining and complaining about her body aches and take care of the two kids.
* UnreliableNarrator: Per the narrator, the person who told him the story assures that this tale he got from his great-grandparents, who got it from his great-great-grandparents, is absolutely true.
This [[https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00045468/ film]] was named to the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry in 1998.
Modesta is a peasant young woman with two young kids and another one on the way. Fed up with her authoritarian husband constantly nagging her to do chores and manage the household, she and other women in the ''barrio'' (neighborhood) organize the "League of Liberated Women".
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* AwfulWeddedLife: As soon as Modesta wakes up, her husband tells her to stop whining and complaining about her body aches and take care of the two kids.
* UnreliableNarrator: Per the narrator, the person who told him the story assures that this tale he got from his great-grandparents, who got it from his great-great-grandparents, is absolutely true.
This [[https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00045468/ film]] was named to the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry in 1998.
