It is said that the film was inspired by the novel "The Tarantula", but the film is quite different from the original book. It is a metaphor for the intricate cobweb-like relationship between everyone in this film. The fates of many characters are intertwined like a cobweb, and the multi-clue narrative structure is what Almodóvar is best at. This film is more rigorous and calm than Almodovar's previous works, like a gentle scalpel, pulling away the cause and effect of the story layer by layer.
Robert is a surgeon and shaping and implantation is his profession. When his wife and daughter died one after another, the scalpel became his tool of revenge. He grabbed Vincent who had hurt his daughter and changed his skin inch by inch, even his gender and name. Turn him into Vera, make him face yoga face makeup, turn him into a real woman from the inside.
"What you're doing is eating you like a cancer cell," Maria said to Robert. He thought that his ownism controlled everything created, but in the end he overestimated himself and finally paid the price for his arrogance.
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