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Movie Review: Cake (2018)
Written and directed by Asim Abbasi
There is a tearing sense of agony that comes with having a family. The ones that should know you the most, often end up knowing you the least. They always prepare your favourite dessert but forget to add the sweetness in the relationship for it to last as a memory. They miss you, but when you’re home they wish you were better away. They love you but do not how to accept the love as it changes with time.
Pakistani director, Asim Abbasi’s movie, Cake starring Sanam Saeed and Aamina Sheikh in the lead roles, elicits just how terrifying close families are despite increasing geographical borders and emotional vacuums amongst the members. The story revolves around two sisters, Zareen (Aamina) and Zara (Sanam), both living with their individual struggles, while managing their ageing parents and the conflict arising out of it. Zara lives in London, while Zareen lives with their parents in Pakistan. When their father suffers from congestive heart failure, Zareen flies down, only to realise that she has more to handle than just her father.
Zareen carries with her an insufferable attitude, a result of her years of taking care of her parents, the family business, while placing her personal ambitions and love, on the back burner. There is a pain that she carries in her heart, knowing that she has to…
