This Spanish director Almodovar's film, the Chinese version is translated as "Return", the Hong Kong version is translated as "Floating Flowers", the Taiwan version is translated as "Playing Beauty", and the English version is translated as "to return". Appropriate, but it is also difficult to find a suitable translation. This is a family suspense story about love and hate, protection and revenge. The film continues the director's style, focusing on female themes.
Analyze the film from several angles.
1. Three Storylines
The first story line is now happening between the heroine Raymonde, her alcoholic husband, and her daughter. Raymonde has a good figure, is beautiful, and is very capable; her husband likes to drink, not motivated, and sloppy; her daughter, Paula, is in her teens, she is simple and unpretentious, and she is not as lively and bright as she should be at this age. The family lives the life of the people at the bottom. The heroine is a difficult and disrespectful role at home, but she has endured and endured and continued until an accident happened.
The second story line is now taking place in the heroine's hometown. The movie begins with Raymonde taking her daughter and sister Sorey to attend her parents' funeral. From her conversation with her sister, it could be seen that she complained and resented her mother. She felt that her mother died in the arms of her father who loved her, which was considered a good death. Her sister felt sorry for her mother, who died in the fire. Her father and mother died tragically in a fire accident. Her aunt suffered from severe Alzheimer's disease but was able to live a normal life alone. There were also some unspeakable abnormalities in her aunt's house. The neighbor Augustina, who was also their sister’s playmate when they were children, also cared and took care of the heroine’s aunt.
The third story line takes place in the heroine. What is the heroine's past like? If Paula is not the biological daughter of an alcoholic husband, then who is her biological father? The third story line is a very important clue that connects the suspense of the entire movie. It can even be said that everything that is happening now is a long time ago. caused by the past.
2. The gripping suspense
The whole story moves the story forward by setting a lot of suspense points. The director planted the seeds of suspense in the hearts of the audience, and then slowly sprouted, and then found clues, and finally knew the answer. The first suspense point was that the heroine Raymonde's aunt suffered from severe Alzheimer's disease. She had poor memory and poor hands and feet, but she could still live a normal life by herself. Then it was Raymond's daughter who accidentally killed her alcoholic father when he was trying to rape him. The second suspense point came out. The heroine told her daughter that he was not your biological father. Later, one after another, the suspense came one after another, which was very enjoyable. I was deeply attracted by the rhythm of the whole movie and could not leave at all.
The director controls the suspense between the strange and the bizarre. One suspense is connected to another, so that the audience is constantly grasping the clues in the movie while watching the movie, constantly thinking and looking for answers until the end of the movie. All the questions were explained in an instant, no matter how much you guessed right, there was a feeling of fun.
The rhythm of the film is very comfortable and methodical, it's not too stressful, it's not too light-hearted, and there are occasional humorous touches.
3. Women's resistance
This film is about rebellion against women. In most social morals, women are expected to be gentle, tolerant, understanding, loving, forgiving, even if something bad happens. And the most moving part of this film is that it shows the very powerful resistance of women.
The mother of the heroine, when her husband cheats many times, can choose to tolerate, choose to withdraw, and choose to be fulfilled. But when she learned of her daughter's injury, the anger surpassed all emotions, and she rose up to resist and take revenge.
The heroine also did things beyond the usual scope in order to protect her daughter. For love, to protect my daughter.
The heroine and her mother chose to endure when they were treated badly, and chose resolute resistance and revenge when their daughter was injured. But this story wants to tell us much more than that. If the mother started to resist when she was abused and hurt, and stayed away from the marriage, wouldn't her daughter be harmed? Women should not only make changes to protect their daughters, but also protect themselves so that they can better protect their daughters.
In the traditional perspective, men are aggressive, and in this film, we see how women defend themselves in a male-dominated society, how to protect their loved ones and take revenge on men in a male society. How to go from a humble, cowardly, and forbidding victim to a witty, brave, and even cruel avenger.
4. Reconciliation of mother-daughter relationship
After the mother and daughter finally revealed their feelings to each other, they finally reconciled. It turns out that they are the same person. But from now on, I hope they can not only protect their daughters, but also themselves.
5. Summary
The film is very colorful and magnificent. It involves eroticism and desire. Sin is erotic, and death is erotic. Movie music is also good. The heroine is not only beautiful, but her performance is also very good. The characters are well-built. The structure of the entire film is also relaxed and orderly. It's a rare masterpiece.
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