Using eight words to describe Almodovar's films is "sweet and colorful". If he uses twelve words, it is "the plot is delicate and the pictures are colorful". Apart from these commonalities, his films love women very much, especially This one "All about my mother".
From the title, you can tell that it was dedicated to his mother by the director. There are many women involved in the film. The first heroine, Manuela, lost her only son in a car accident not long after the film began. Her tragic fate is not only the loss of her son, the child she raised alone, who is also her only relative. The child's father became a transgender woman. Manuela fled Barcelona when she was pregnant, and escaped from her son's biological father. She tore off all the other half in the photo, and never mentioned his father to her son. . Before the accident, the son revealed that he longed to know what kind of person his father was, but unfortunately he never got the chance to know. Manuela returned to Barcelona with her son's wishes.
This run away is also a kind of rebirth. She broke through the comfort zone of life and kept breaking into the lives of others. The son died trying to get the autograph of Yanmi, the heroine of "A Train Named Desire". Yan Mi on the stage shines brightly, behind the scenes her private life is chaotic and unable to take care of her own life and emotions. Manuela broke into her life, helped her find her beloved female assistant, took care of her life instead of the female assistant, and even took the stage to perform Stella in the Train of Desire instead. Manuela was looking for a job and met the enthusiastic nun Rosa. Rosa was pregnant with the son of Manuela's ex-husband. Rosa was infected with HIV again. Rosa had no way to get her mother's forgiveness and begged to live in Manuela. Pulled together, Rosa died of AIDS. So Manuela lost her son Esteban, and began to raise Rosa's son Esteban. Yanmi loves her female assistant to the point of being obsessed, but the female assistant still leaves her, and Yanmi lets go...
"All about my mother" solved a knot in my heart. What is a mother? It is not whoever gives birth to a child is a mother, only those who can dedicate selflessly for their children are mothers, and only those whose motherhood is above all else are mothers. Movies are healing me.
"All about my mother" was very idealistic. Manuela can forgive Yanmi, the culprit who almost killed her son by mistake, she can forgive her ex-husband Esteban's betrayal, and she can even raise Rosa's son Esteban... Rosa, Manuela, Ayue , Rosa, four "women" with intertwined fates sitting in a living room, leaving everything behind, and talking about the situation without any scruples is really beautiful and desirable, but unfortunately it only exists in movies. Women in life have neither such tolerance nor such tacit understanding. Some female colleagues have no quality and courtesy, low IQ and EQ, and extremely bad temper, which is really more disgusting than eating flies. Fortunately, not all women are like this!
I just want to say that life is not as beautiful as movies, but we need the beauty of movies.
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