Every conversation we have is talking to ourselves, just like the two male protagonists in Almodovar's "Tell Her Whisper", they keep talking, but no one seems to listen.
Alicia and Lydia became vegetative due to neurological damage caused by vehicle and bullfighting accidents, respectively. Both of them have men who love them-Benino and Marco, even if Alicia's being loved is not by themselves, and even a little disgusting, but in any case, being loved is happiness, Benino The love of Marco may be so confusing and unbearable, and Marco's love also teaches people to ride a tiger, otherwise how could Lydia get back with her ex-husband? But it is always happy to be loved, no matter how heavy that love is.
The unbearable love of the two is expressed in a more rugged way after the heroines become vegetative. At first, Marco's love for Lydia had nowhere to vent and no way to vent - the object has become a vegetative person, how to vent it with neither perception nor perception? Marco felt extremely hesitant, but seeing Benigno talking endlessly to Alicia without any cowardice or suspicion, he couldn't help being both contemptuous and ashamed. At first, he was ashamed that he did not show Benigno's infatuation. In front of him, his love seemed worthless. In order to reverse this love crisis, he turned to despise Benigno's behavior. The fact that a person in a vegetative state speaks is so ridiculous, he thought that he could use this to avoid what he should pay to Lydia in love (who wouldn't feel powerless when his lover became a vegetative person?) But he still crawls in Benigno with nothing Under the meaning of giving, start talking to your lover.
This is also the most annoying part of the whole play.
Whether Marco or Benigno, they are constantly talking to a lover who is unconscious and whose day of awakening is still far away. Benigno treats it like faith, Marco is not confident, either out of shame or out of inner awakening, but Benigno inspired him anyway. The four of them had a "conversation" with each other on the balcony. Marco said silently (and couldn't express it) that Lydia loved the sunshine, but in the end, it was the wishful thinking of the two men. Every time they received a reply to the words they uttered, they were nothing but echoes from the valley.
They can never really hear what those two have to say, that's their limitation and our nature. It's not that Alicia and Lydia don't want to listen to what they say to themselves, but they are limited by the gap between illness and life, and they can't respond. They speak hard and affectionately, but no one listens. They can only use what they say out as a medium to feed back on themselves.
Compared with the surging heart, the words are so pale and tasteless. When we get along with others, we truly realize that we are an island. This is why Marco never understands how much Lydia has for snakes. Fear, how painful it was when being pierced by a cow, how could he think about how much pain he could bear for Lydia if the flesh didn't grow on him? In the end, Benigno died and Alicia woke up, but she had never heard a word of the words he said to her, so private and affectionate.
In this way, the reality seems to make people feel discouraged, and people's hearts are as claustrophobic as Zhang Zhen and Zhang Han's family, and they are as defensive as "Rage". We seem to be forever separated from others by a glass panel, on one side we are screaming exhausted, and on the other side people can only guess through mouth shape and answer according to their own interpretation. But as Benigno said: "How do you know she can't hear?" We still need to continue to tell, there is no guarantee that one day someone will really understand what they are saying.
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