If love is a disease, may we never wake up

Lexi 2022-04-22 07:01:30

Besides Floating Flowers, my favorite Almodovar movie is this one.
What makes this film untiring is its drama and sense of irony. No matter from the characters, plot development to the theme, it is full of huge contrasts and cuteness. Even many small supporting roles and details are full of drama. people aftertaste.
The rough-looking Marco's love is delicate, soft, long, a little fat and a little sissy, but Benigno's love is full of firmness, determination, and heroism that is not afraid of moths to the flames. Marco's love is love understood by the world, and his tenderness and sensitivity can always attract the pity of women, while Benigno's love is too pure, but it has become a pervert, a rapist, and a mental illness in the eyes of the world. The world seems to be saying that love is normal for one thing, too much love makes people crazy, so such people should be locked in prison and isolated from the world.
Marco was honest with Lydia, told Lydia unreservedly about her last unforgettable relationship, how it took her ten years to finally get out of this relationship, and told her that she was listening to "The Doves" because she thought of her ex-girlfriend. "Song", and crying while driving away the poisonous snake, Lydia kept saying that she was very jealous of his ex-girlfriend, making the audience mistakenly believe that she fell in love with Marco with all her heart, and condemned Marco's passion. But after Lydia fell into a coma, her ex-boyfriend told Marco in the ward that Lydia had never forgotten him, and on the day of Lydia's accident, she originally wanted to tell Marco the truth and broke up with him. Only then did the audience realize that they had never confessed, and instead of using marco as a replacement for their ex-boyfriend, it turned out to be Lydia.
When benigno gave marco a love guide, marco asked in surprise, what experience do you have with women? benigno said, I have taken care of my mother for 20 years and alicia for 4 years, I don't have much experience with women? Speechless. It is true that many people who have had countless girlfriends or even married several times, even if you have experienced many women, but never listened and understood with your heart, how can you really understand women? But the irony is that a man who cherishes women, loves women, understands women so much, and can even silently guard the goddess in his heart for four years without complaining, can't get Alicia's attention when she is sober, and is even punished because he doesn't know how to socialize. disgust.
Benigno was helpful, kind and generous when he was working in the hospital. He often sacrificed his time to help a colleague who was busy with housework. Rosa had the best relationship with him. On the contrary, Marco, who was far away, heard that Benigno had an accident, and immediately dropped everything at hand to see him. For Benigno, at the moment of desperation, in this world he paid so much for, only Marco cared about him. On the other hand, I don’t have many friends. It is enough to have a confidant like Marco in this life who is willing to visit you, help you, and even deliberately deceive you for your disobedience.
Under the persuasion of his lawyer, Marco concealed the fact that Alicia woke up after giving birth and did not tell Benigno, but accidentally caused Benigno's desperate suicide. Benigno said that he hoped that he could fall into a coma by taking the pills, so that he could reunite with Alicia. got together. The guilty marco said in front of Benigno's tombstone, it was you who woke up Alicia, but it was too late. The angel has left the world, leaving him alone in this cold and cruel world.
Alicia was reborn because of Benigno, but she was unaware of the four years Benigno had spent for her. In her eyes, perhaps Benigno was just an ordinary nurse who had raped her and made her give birth to a dead baby. And the most cruel one is Alicia's father, knowing that Benigno woke up his daughter, can't he forgive him even if it was rape without her daughter's consent? If it weren't for the indifference of the hospital, the ruthlessness of Alicia's father, even if there was one person to defend him, why would Benigno have been in prison for more than a year, and he could not even be released on bail?
The only consolation in this tragedy is that Marco, who was alone in the end, lived in the house benigno left him, and fell in love with alicia, just like spending the rest of his life with alicia instead of benigno.
If love is a disease, may we all be like benigno, madly ill, hysterical, ill and never wake up.
To immortal love, and life!

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  • [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.