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  • Marilyne 2022-04-22 07:01:31

    The first Almodovar movie I saw

    In fact, when I watched it, I felt very bloody. If in China, absolutely no one would make a movie with such a story, and the country would not allow such a movie to be shown. It is estimated that the audience would be very bored watching it. In fact, the plot is very simple, it just wants to...

  • Kamryn 2022-04-20 09:01:43

    return

    Raymond lives with his alcoholic husband and young daughter, but life is not as peaceful as others. Raymonde has a sister, So, who lived in poverty with their parents when they were children. After their parents were killed in a fire, the two sisters moved to Madrid, estranged for their respective...

  • Alysha 2021-12-13 08:01:10

    Penélope Cruz's beauty is worth five stars. Widows are widows because they all killed their husbands.

  • Fredy 2021-12-13 08:01:10

    A / Comparing the first three parts of the new century, you can clearly see the change in Almodovar's concept of processing time (or an exploration with a sense of self-categorization). "Speaking to Her" is to surround the characters with the past as the driving force of the narrative, "Bad Education" is a hierarchical creation of a fractured structure between the past and reality, and "Return" allows the memory to be concretized as a part of the present that disturbs the space-time relationship to create freshness. Living emotional momentum. It seems that Almodovar has "returned" to the plain narrative of the 1980s, but everything has been so completely new.

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  • Irene: Don't say that, Raimunda, or I'll start crying. And ghosts don't cry.

  • Sole: Mom?

    Irene: Hum?

    Sole: There's something you want me to do, isn't?

    Irene: Cut my hair.

    Sole: I mean if there's something you couldn't do alive and doesn't let you rest.

    Irene: There are always things undone. Or bad done. And my life has been no exception. Look, I don't know if I can fix them, but if I can, it's up to me to do it.

    Sole: [after a long silence] Customers will arrive soon. What are we going to do?

    Irene: We attend to them. I'll help you.

    Sole: But I can't introduce you as my mother. They all know I'm an orphan.

    Irene: Then I'll pretend to be foreign.

    Sole: Foreign? Where from?

    Irene: ¿Dominican?

    Sole: No. There are lots of them on the neighborhood and they would notice the accent.

    Irene: ¿Chinese? Madrid is full of Chinese people.

    Sole: Who's going to believe that you're from China, mom?

    [Thinks]

    Sole: Something strange. Not very common around here... Rusian.

    Irene: Do wou really think I look more Rusian than Chinese?

    Sole: Yes. Rusian women are just like us, mom. Look, whatever you hear, keep your mouth shut. And it can't looked in your face that you understand us.