How well do you know your best friends? Do you share the belief that your friends know you so much more than your own family members?
Do you share all your secrets with your best friend? Do you tell your best friend everything that that you think and feel about the people around you?
What do you say about your other friends when they are not with you? Do you share your opinions and judgments about what your friends do to other people?
MGA MUMUNTING LIHIM (Those Little Secrets) is precisely about those seemingly trivial and insignificant events and issues that constitute the totality of friendship. It is about the life shared through the years of four women and how, in one moment, they finally realize that they truly do not know one another despite the experiences that they have shared and cherished and even defined as friendship.
MARIEL (Judy Ann Santos) and CARLA (Iza Calzado) have been best friends since high school. They have shared the years and common interests: they are both creative individuals interested in writing. But the unfolding of years have opted two extremely different courses of the women: MARIEL chose to give up her career as a magazine writer to be a wife and mother -- while CARLA shunned marriage to become a successful advertising executive.
Into their lives came two other women: there was SANDRA (Agot Isidro) who married a man old enough to be her father so that she can afford the lifestyle that she wanted -- and OLIVE (Janice de Belen) who was happy with her domestic bliss and married to an OFW in Dubai.
The women bonded and treasured their camarederie until fate struck its blow and the bevy had to confront their mortality.
Worse than that, when one of the women exposed the truth about the real feelings and thoughts of the friends about each other, what they perceived as the security of each other's friendship turned out to be the true test of their dignity and honesty.
It is those little secrets that, when added together, constitute the most painful and irreparable damage from seemingly unimportant lies.
MGA MUMUNTING LIHIM also features Roeder Camanag, Lui Manansala, Madeline Nicolas, Gino De la Pena and Kim Komatsu.
Gala premiere of the movie is on July 25, 2012 at 9 PM at the CCP Main Theater as part of the Director's Showcase of Cinemalaya 2012.
