Almodóvar's films are filled with women who play different roles, mothers, wives, daughters, whether they're transgender or nuns or prostitutes. The world is full of all kinds of people, and Almodóvar can fuse them together beyond our usual arbitrary biological judgments about a person's gender. I think Almodóvar must know women extremely well, and I think Almodóvar always has a maternal compassion for the grotesque people he sees. Whether it's a villain or a mediocre who makes a mess of his life, or a drug dealer, a thief, a robber who makes a living on the wrong side of society, they all have a mother who will always open the door for him, even if they are not right Mother's gratitude and compassion. Such is the case with the tiger in my skin, after the robbery, the first refuge he thought of was his mother, and he raped another girl in the house, when he tied the intrusive old mother to a chair When he was about to put a rag in her mouth, his mother begged him not to do it, but he seemed to have completely forgotten the fact that the poor woman was his mother, and shoved the cloth in without hesitation.
Speaking of the mother in Almodovar's video, then we must talk about his "All About My Mother". I also remember that a subtitle group kindly translated it as "On My Mother" (laughs) Mother and The relationship between sexual consciousness is easily reminiscent of various theories with Freud. However, instead of starting from the theory and simply considering the experience of ordinary people, mothers are indeed a warm place, a refuge, a body and mind. Two-sided consolation. Maybe the mother also means the source of our existence, and when we change things born from the source, such as gender, the mother's tolerance is actually much more meaningful than the surface, and the mother's recognition means that one's own existence has been obtained. original recognition. The thought "I wasn't born a mistake" is important. Perhaps the mother is a more important role than the father in childhood. Almodóvar's perspective on the mother is a male's perspective on the mother. To say something irrelevant, in fact, I have always felt that this is also a mysterious source of their artistic creation. The father was absent in childhood. This is often felt in Almodóvar's films.
A lot of people think that Almodóvar's films have too many sex scenes, but I find it strange that in my mind it seems to be completely removed from eroticism. There are several kinds of sexual descriptions in such a concentration. First, women are violated, and the description is rough and straightforward; second, the implicit expression of women together with the man they love. At this time, there has never been a description of the lower body; The emotions expressed, one is feeling strongly violated by the victim, the other is full of love and tenderness. Almodovar is not shy about both descriptions, but I am deeply impressed by the aptness of his gender-crossing description. It can be said that his crossover is his theme, and his images are a bridge for communication across genders, allowing us to see the possibility of two yin and yang contained in the skin of my habitat. It is invaluable to include both male and female perspectives in one shot.
Gender is a problem that modern people are more concerned about, so what is the core of the problem that modern people care about? As homosexuality has become more mainstream and understood, we have learned some very basic common sense about our bodies and the souls enshrined in this shrine, which in the past were seen as evil. I can't explain the causes of heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality from a very theoretical level, but as Almodóvar contributed to tolerance and understanding of non-heterosexual people, we should try to see the common sense behind these phenomena. Heart.
Until now, the consumption of homosexuality is greater than the real understanding of it. The homosexual group in our imagination seems to be more idealized. It is popular around me that beautiful men must be together. After watching some documentaries, I found that homosexuality is probably the When I was an unremarkable ordinary person, I also felt lost and thought. Isn't our so-called homosexuality really a strange cultural phenomenon? Homosexuality should be disenchanted, and anime and commercial works should try not to glorify or vilify the existence of this group. Our care for them can't just stop at the level of consumer CP.
Still want to return to the film to talk about the image itself. I think Almodovar must have appreciated the physical beauty of women. The white carcass contains an ideal of truth, goodness and beauty, as if it were an eternal thing. In the skin of my habitat, there is a large classical oil painting hanging on the wall of the corridor on the second floor. Somewhere I also saw Mary Magdalene. The purity of this white, true, good and beautiful body is itself a kind of creeping. something unknown. I was moved, deeply moved. Almodovar must think women have the most beautiful breasts, and in his films I have seen all kinds of beautiful nipples and curves. This is really something that moves people to tears. The fact that there is eternal beauty in the human body makes us extremely impressed.
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