"All About My Mother" includes all the bizarre elements that can be imagined - homosexuality, drug addiction, transgender people, disguise, AIDS, but the video language he loves is bright and full of colors, smooth and gorgeous narrative, body A woman with a beautiful appearance, so that the discrepancy in appearance brings a clear irony, which makes people laugh and cry.
But let's dig a little deeper and look at the women he loves to tell about -- and some of them aren't pure women, lol.
Each one has its own sins and flaws, but each one lives as grandly as possible without any regrets, even if it has a despised factor, it is not humble like a sunflower opening under the sun.
For example, a beautiful girl infected with AIDS, although resentful, still stubbornly finishes her life; for example, a young girl who has undergone transgender plastic surgery to make a living can laugh at herself on the stage without being inferior, and joke about all kinds of embarrassment on her body to save her. A crashing scene.
I really like this kind of tenacity. The destiny God gave me is to complain about the world and worry about the earth, but I can walk on with my head held high.
The title of the film is about the mother, and the natural main line plot also comes from the mother.
It starts with the mother who lost her son returning to the place of Girls' Generation and reuniting with old friends. She meets all kinds of characters, but never changes her gentle and tenacious character. She also led to two other different mothers. Although they both have similar experiences, they have two seriously ill daughters, one always comforts and encourages her daughter, and the other wants to maintain it like an enemy. The family's unsullied reputation.
The judgment of values is actually quite difficult, because it is difficult to blame what kind of views and thoughts are. The mother's difficulties are really acute and painful.
The subtitles at the end of the film read "To all who will become mothers", in any case, this is Almodóvar's respect for women, respecting their care and anxiety more than men in addition to production, and at the same time with appreciation. Looking at those groups in the marginal world who are working hard to live, why don't we be more forgiving, and feel the great power inside through those surfaces that make the world talk to each other.
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