Watching Almodovar's work reminds me of a Korean director Kim Ki-duk! Their works are full of doubts and disappointments about the real world and human nature. The works are quite controversial, focusing on the expression of desire to bring bestiality!
I remember that there is a golden sentence of revenge that says, hatred and revenge against a person is not to kill him, but to make his life better than death! The male protagonist of this film is even more ruthless, not only wanting him to die, but also changing his genetic sex, which could have been a perfect revenge! But I can't let go of missing my wife, let go of the animal desires that people are born with! The heroine is her own work, and her obsession with the work has finally reached the realm of selflessness! That's how people are, as soon as they have weaknesses, they will lose themselves! As soon as you have feelings, people are cowardly! In this way, step by step, the hostess is turned against the guest! As the male protagonist's mother and nanny said, I knew it would be like this!
I feel that the film's acting skills are overwhelmingly the role of the male protagonist's mother and nanny! She released the fear of indulging her two sons, the helplessness of being uneasy! No matter how bad the tiger's son is, the tiger's poison will never eat his son! The doctor's son's perverted revenge and infatuation, although she feels that raising tigers is a problem, she has to condone and satisfy her son's animal desires! Such a mother lives in entanglement and helplessness every day until she witnesses her demise!
The movie has a bit of Hitchcock's style! But I think the burden of revealing the truth would be more tense if it was shaken off at the end of the movie! More terrifying effects!
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