"Talk to Her": Love is about talking

Johnathon 2022-04-20 09:01:43

I've been looping Caetano Veloso's "Cucurrucucu Paloma" for the past few days. I specifically avoided the version in "Breakthrough" and chose the original sound of "Tell Her", not because I didn't like the former, but because I think the latter is a better interpretation of this "Pigeon Song". In "Breakthrough", the camera is facing the galloping and vast Iguazu waterfall. Caught in the love-hate entanglement between He Baorong and Li Yaohui; and in "Talk to Her", Veloso's singing is like a butterfly wailing like a dove, a whisper to a lover, a quiet voice for men, slowly Here, tell you about the indescribable sadness in the movie.

Some people say this movie is scary because it glorifies Benino's morbid love for Aricia, but I think Avadomo just wants to tell a tragedy, not showing sympathy or praise for any of the protagonists, Rather, it is handed over to private moviegoers.

At the beginning of the movie, the woman in white on the stage seems to be groaning and dancing ecstatically, while the man on one side stares at her and hurriedly withdraws the chair on her way; In order to be able to be with my lover, shrink myself, even if I may be crushed to death by my lover... Whether it's in "All About My Mother" or "Tell Her", I can always be in Amo The purest human emotions are found in Domo's films, which are simple and great. Compared with the persistent love, what moved me the most in the film was Benigno and Mark. In the end, they all became vegetative, and only they could understand each other's confiding and whispering to their unresponsive lover over and over again. Benigno said to Mark before committing suicide, "I've had very few people in my life", and Mark still helped her follow Aricia after Benigno died.... At the end of the movie, Mark stood at the place where Benino once lived. In front of the window of the hut, I looked at the ballet room on the corner of the street. There used to be the place where Arisia danced. At this moment, all the emotions were gathered here.

It also confirms this sentence: deep affection is a tragedy, and it must be read. To use a sentence from "The Reader": Thousands of films have been made, but only one is actually made: life and death.

Back to "The Dove Song": Dove, how can Shishi know love? Don't cry for her anymore.

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Extended Reading
  • Kimberly 2022-03-21 09:01:58

    That silent film is the footnote: selfless love to give everything and even one's own life, even if it will (and must) appear a very perverted appearance.

  • Theron 2021-12-11 08:01:28

    A delicate and perfect movie starts with a poster. 1. Heartbreaking secret love and infatuation, the sympathy of two lonely men. 2. Sleeping beauty = a speechless woman, just like the sleepwalker in the opening [Muller Café]. 3. With the metaphor of silent film [shrinking lover], devote oneself to love and return to the mother body. 4. Gender reversal: weak and affectionate men and women bullfighters. 5. The soundtrack is immersive, especially the somber [pigeon]. 6. The composition and details are admired, the lava lamp. (9.5/10)

Talk to Her quotes

  • [last lines]

    Katerina Bilova: Nothing is simple. I'm a ballet mistress, and nothing is simple.

  • Marco Zuluaga: Love is the saddest thing when it goes away, as a song by Jobim goes.