"Tell Her" is the work of Spanish national treasure director Almodóvar who won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003. It tells the story of two seriously injured and unconscious women and two men who love them. The process of watching the film is like an audio-visual journey that can iron your body and mind. After walking around the scenes, music and stories built by the director, the scene in your heart has undergone a subtle change. A landscape that touched me and wanted to share with you.
- a character that needs to be stared at
"There is nothing, I have to make up all the people, the Cuban woman you describe, leaning against the window, facing the embankment, waiting hopelessly, watching the time pass, nothing happened, I think I am her." This is how Nino defines himself. He is a little fat boy with a baby face and a little withdrawn. After the girl he likes comatose, he works as a nurse to take care of her. In his imaginary world, the people he loves occupy everything. Whether she is awake or in a coma, he talks to Ah Celia talked about what she saw, heard and felt in her life, and showed the comatose Asilia a picture book of furniture she liked in the magazine. The room, preparing to marry her, was found out because of the "rape" that Asilia made her pregnant, sent to prison, and finally ended her life by suicide. He is a character you will definitely think is crazy when you meet him in real life. His fictional world is forcibly lifted off the roof by the right and wrong, right and wrong, and rules of the real world, destroying the pillars, and in the world created by the movie, it will inevitably be right He came to understand. "Man is an animal hanging on a web of meaning woven by himself." In his fictional world, he believes that even a comatose person can hear and feel the call of a lover, and believes that giving her unreserved love and care is enough reason for marriage. His simple stubbornness is beautiful and powerful, because he firmly believes that sleeping people can hear, so eventually Asilia woke up, Marco didn't believe it, and finally Lydia died, and because of his death, in some way It also awakened the suppressed enthusiasm in Marco's heart.
- A journey of color
Red is the original color, the first ancient color to be named, and in Spanish red and chromatic are the same word. Almodovar also endowed colors with different symbolic meanings, red is the most obvious symbol of Almodovar, it represents the passion of life and irresistible lust. Compared with the pictures of other film masters, his films are more like oil paintings about human emotions and desires depicted in rich and magnificent colors. On the one hand, the color matching and tones of the entire film make people very comfortable, and from many details, we can see the director's intentions in the use of colors. For example, when Marco went to Lydia's house to catch snakes and throw the garbage, the garbage bag was green, the trash can was yellow and the lid was red. On the other hand, the use of color also forms a potential echo with the story and characters. Benigno wears blue overalls when he works in the hospital, and also wears blue clothes in the detention center after being arrested, while visiting his horse. But it is red. I think blue represents a warm and firm sense of strength. Like water, it determines the direction it wants to flow. It will continue to wash and flow firmly until it dries up. The red fire is sensitive and jumping, and can be ignited or extinguished instantly. There is a very beautiful shot here. The two people are separated by a glass wall on the left and right, one blue and one red. As the camera moves left and right, the reflection in the mirror overlaps the shadows of the two people when Marco speaks. Blue and red are also blended together. The solitary, calm but determined blue nourishes the ardent but perishable red.
- A narrative structure with rhythm and beauty
The film's soundtrack was composed by Spain's leading film score composer, Alberto Igracias. With orchestral music as the dominant instrument, the overall style of the soundtrack and the video is consistent, gloomy and soulful, and the perfect arrangement of the soundtrack has constructed the film's inner emotional rhythm. There are several zoomed subtitles in the movie to remind time and characters, which is quite similar to the feeling of literary narrative. From the origin of Benigno, two different love stories are unfolded, and the two stories intersect at one point. After the death of the two, there is a reborn Marco and the awakened Asilia. Both of them carry the traces of Benigno's existence. The dancers on the stage disperse one by one, leaving only one For male and female dancers, the steady stream of water flowing out of the green leaves on the background of the stage symbolizes the birth of life, and the story line of Mark and Arisia begins to draw slowly. The whole film is not only like the traces of dancers spinning and stretching in the air and the ground, but also like the movement of gentle and light music intertwined, divided and closed, extending and flowing. "Perspective is the basic condition of all life, there are no facts, only interpretations."
Moral ethics and rules have strong boundaries, and the law cannot answer, what choices we make is "worthy", what kind of life we live is "righteous", and what kind of "love" is acceptable Marriage. Watching a movie, reading a book, maybe we use more eyes, different eyes to observe the same thing, these works invite us to keep an open mind to more perspectives, to listen, understand and learn from them . Eventually you will find yourself.
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