This is the third Almodovar movie I've seen. The plot of the movie is full of suspense elements, so I'm reluctant to let go of any plot. The story repeats itself, and the occurrence of a new story slowly reveals the original story. It is still the familiar Almodovar-style female theme, and the familiar Almodovar's arrangement of male characters in the film. Women are always multifaceted, strong, tolerant, kind, and united. Men are lower body thinking animals.
After watching this film, I happened to chat with my friends about the film "Why is Home?" Although there is no comparison between different genres, I thought that the film's narrative rhythm was not good, lacking conflicts, or lacking attractive storylines. I just came back and finished watching it. I think the story is cliché, but because at least two-thirds of the whole film has a corpse that has not been dealt with in time but is afraid of being found, and because the dead mother was resurrected, I thought it was a ghost, and let it go. The whole movie is full of suspense.
The solidarity of women in the film is also a relief to me. The body was carried twice, which was very heavy. It was handled by the solidarity of women. It was the first time that the hostess restaurant prepared food for the guests, with the help of the surrounding neighbors.
But after watching the film, I always have a question, why the heroine couldn't have an abortion after being raped by her father and became pregnant, but gave birth to her own daughter/sister? Was it the system at that time or because the story needed to be deliberately designed?
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