As the title of the film says, the film shows a story about a mother. But it is not limited to this, it is a story about women. I appreciate the director's quirky and whimsical ideas. Transgender people and homosexuality are highly controversial themes that have been boldly used by the director. At the end of the film, a subtitle appeared on the screen: I dedicate this film to all actresses who play actresses, to all women who act, to all transgender actors, to all those who wish to be mothers, to my mother. From such a passage, I can feel that the director respects all women like he respects his own mother, whether it is a prostitute or a transgender person at the bottom of the society.
Like Julie in "Blue", the protagonist Manuela suffered the death of her family. Julie was liberated from the child conceived by her husband's lover. Manuela was similar to her, and she saw hope in life in the child also named Esteban. And that child, although the film does not describe him at length, he may be the "me" in "Everything About My Mother". Regarding the discussion of this "I", I feel that the two Estebans are both "I" actors. Although Manuela's son Esteban has died and did not directly participate in the subsequent storyline, Manuela once again set foot in Barcelona for him to find his biological father, Lola, and what he wrote in his diary before his death about wanting to find and know him. His father's obsession gave the director a reason to arrange for him to silently watch all this from the sidelines of a hidden deceased and tell the story. And Sister Rosa's son Esteban was handed over to Manuela after Rosa's death. Before Rosa's death, she also specifically told Manuela not to hide his background from the child, so he must know when he grows up All in all, the story presented in the film may be the story Manuela told him about his origins.
No matter who "I" is, the focus of the film is still on mothers and women. Manuela, Ayue, Rosa, Yanmi, and Nina have all been lost. They are painful and confused, but they are still strong and tolerant. There is a scene in the film, Yanmi and Ayue came to visit Manuela and Rosa successively, and then the four of them sat and chatted together, talking and laughing. Such a scene is so ordinary, but it is the most heartwarming in the film. scene. "The world kisses me with pain, and I repay it with a song", even if life is full of haze, but there is love in my heart, life can still go on. Everything in the world can come to an end, but love lasts forever.
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