Spanish maverick director [Pedro Almodóvar], based on the superstition of his hometown and his humanistic care for women, especially women at the bottom of society, presents a female epic [Return].
In my eyes, the reason why it is a female epic is because the heroine [Raimonda], who has been lived and encountered so much, is still living with passion and coping with the present frustration and every day when I don’t know how tomorrow will come. Distressed.
At the beginning of the film, in the spring of 2006, [Raimonda], her sister [Sole], and her daughter [Paula] visited the graves of their parents in their hometown cemetery, who died in a fire a few years ago. Then I went to visit my blind aunt, and my hometown neighbor [Christina] who has been helping to take care of my aunt. Then back home and on the run in Madrid. When she got home, Raymonda, who was working at the airport, found that her idle husband [Buck] was unemployed, and she might need another temporary job.
But everything changed because the husband attempted to sexually assault his 14-year-old daughter (not the husband's own), and was accidentally killed by the daughter with a knife in the kitchen. Like many mothers, if things come to light, they will take responsibility. It was announced that her husband had left home.
By chance, the helpless and impoverished Raymonda took over the restaurant that the neighbor was going to sell, and took over the film crew who happened to need to solve the problem of eating and filming in the surrounding area. With the help of an equally distressed neighbor woman, Raimonda temporarily opened the restaurant. She froze her husband Buck's body in an abandoned storage room. Later, with the help of a neighbor woman, the freezer where Buck's body was hidden was buried by the river. Neighbors, who are also forced by life and who sell themselves for life from time to time, are not surprised that Raymonda hides her body in the freezer.
Later, the dead mother was suddenly resurrected and returned home with her sister Solei. After the divorce, Soleil ran a barber shop at home without a license. Because of the superstition in her hometown, Suo Lei always believed that her mother was a manifestation in order to fulfill her wishes during her lifetime, and asked her mother to pretend to be a Russian and be a hairdresser's assistant, and to hide the estranged from her mother [Raymonda].
But in the end, Raymonda met her mother:
It turned out that Raimonda, who had been running around the bottom of Madrid, was sexually assaulted by her biological father 15 years ago. She left home to live with her aunt, gave birth to Paula, and then went to Madrid to marry Buck. At that time, the mother only felt that the eldest daughter was rebellious, and her husband went to work in another country and had an affair with another woman, so she didn't have time to ask too much about Raymonda's situation. Four years ago, the mother found out that Ramunda had been sexually assaulted by her husband, and set fire to her husband and his then lover, the mother of her hometown neighbor [Christina]. Cristina has always suspected that her mother had an affair with Raimonda's father, but she only knew that her mother disappeared after Ramonda's parents were killed in a fire. Raymonda and her mother reconcile and embrace each other and face tomorrow together. [Almodovar] Using brilliant and colorful lenses, through the encounter of Raymonda, the existence and ghosts of the cruel truth of ordinary life are directly attacked; at the same time, through the resilience of these women, the yearning for life that is still worth looking forward to is leaked out .
The image of Raymonda, a beautiful woman at the bottom played by Penelope Cruz, bears the shadow of being violated by her relatives when she was young. She is tenaciously worried about life, anxious and restless, and she has to bear the other side of her husband's attempt to violate her daughter and her daughter to kill her adoptive father. A heavy psychological shadow.
Fortunately, being tired of coping with the heavy pressure of material life, and the haze of the economic crisis that had slowly manifested in 2006, diluted the infinite pain that [Raimonda] wanted to immerse in the oppression of psychological shadows. The difficulties of life made her have no mood to doubt her aunt's well-organized daily life and sweet cakes (actually, her mother has been taking care of her aunt), and she only thought about how to take better care of her in the future.
Even in the face of her husband's body in a pool of blood, she was only briefly frightened. Then, with the expression of firm mother's love and the courage of being a mother, I tightly hugged my daughter who had a similar experience with myself and protected her. Then there is no time to think too much, go straight to life, deal with the corpse, and continue to welcome tomorrow. She frowned unconsciously and bit her lip to deal with life's troubles: restaurant leases, handling corpses, running a business, and Christina being hospitalized with cancer. . .
Although she has been weighed down by life, Raymonda is always working hard to live with the greatest and noble force in life - the passion of life. She also wore beautiful and bright clothes at the finale of the crew and sang a song that her mother taught her when she was young. At this time, she was feeling a little sweetness in the bitterness. If it wasn't for being violated by his father, his life would probably be different because of his singing talent and appearance. At this time, the mother who heard her daughter's singing outside the restaurant was already in tears and moved because she was grateful for her daughter's experience. It seems that the mother who came back from the dead is also a great woman with super vitality. Bearing the pressure of her husband's beastly behavior and what happened to her daughter, she burned the beast and her mistress to death. He was living in the dark as a ghost that appeared.
When she should burn people, she is unequivocal; when it is time to give love and comfort to her daughters, she is so cute and mischievous. She still loves life so much, she's obsessed with finding a chance to reunite with her eldest daughter, Raymonda, to explain what happened, while taking care of her blind sister. After first meeting with the younger daughter who opened a secret barber shop, she still lives with optimism and humor, avoiding her eldest daughter.
It may be the tenacity of the mother that allows the eldest daughter who has suffered misfortune and the little girl who has a difficult life to live vigorously as always. In the end, the mother also volunteered to take care of Christina's life with cancer. When Raimonda wanted to tell her mother a lot about her life, including about Buck, she just said softly that we'd have time later.
This is a woman's epic movie, whether it is Ramonda herself, her mother, sister, daughter, neighbor woman, Christina, they all live at the bottom of the most down-to-earth society, and there is no other better life choice. Down, still continue to face tomorrow, seriously manage today's life.
For them, life is to write their own epics that are not dazzling but have enough vitality in the daily difficulties and beauty.
-END- (Original first published on the public account "Iron Rice")
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