"All About My Mother" is far more beautiful, dignified and gorgeous than the words can express. The shot of the boy writing, the tip of the pen facing the audience, and the screen as the paper; the tilted picture of the car accident, the last imprint of the boy's retina, the crying and sobbing mother. A film that is not developed from the mother's personal perspective, and casts tender eyes on a group of women who are closely linked by fate - disabled, transgender, healthy and suffering, ordinary.
Pedro Almodóvar is good at using colors and strings, it doesn't matter, of course, we can talk about it for a long time. What is important is that he has the generally sensitive sensibility of gay directors to women's psychology and the suffering of women.
Although we can see a large number of female conversations in popular literature and art, it is called a private space for girlfriends to socialize. When talking about boyfriends, husbands, workplace affairs and human feelings, the words and deeds of urban women are reproduced as they are. The survival of the limbic body is lazy in the homogenization tracing. The beginning of "Everything About My Mother" is amazing. It is so big that it seems to be able to accommodate all mothers-everything, life, old age, illness and death, romance, love and grudge, and "mother" seems to be replaced by everything, father, family, Even a dog in the house. And because of its compatibility, we can see the most unreproducible and most accidental tragedies. In the film, each woman has two lines of tears on her face and stretches out her skeletal palm to wipe away the tears. The sobbing sound is broken, but it is as dull as the mountains surging under the night. This makes people think, in fact, comparing a woman to a mountain is a wonderful metaphor. Any tree on the mountain and the mountain itself have a natural insensitivity. It is difficult to tell when a tree or a mountain was born above the horizon. , just like when a woman becomes a mother or even a grandmother, her childhood, likes and dislikes, and dreams are innumerable. What the boy wanted to know was "everything about my father", and that prehistory, unspeakable, was passed on to the boy in the name of Estella. Women are so romantic that they see fate's jokes as gifts.
The play within the play is what Almodovar is most accustomed to using, but it is different here. It is not only a metaphor and contrast, but also a saying that she will cry out loudly, or laugh indulgently, that cannot be expressed in life. She has to travel by car, she has to give birth to a child alone, she has to take care of her husband and dog with a memory disorder, and she has to wear a fake nose, eyes and chest. Their ability to bear everything and their strength is like every ordinary woman in real life. And all of this is expressed in such beautiful colors and music! Pedro Almodovar, I am my servant.
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