Fighter of Fate and Tough Love

Michael 2022-04-23 07:02:12

I don't want to discuss the differences between countries, I just want to discuss the whole society, and even the world, the prejudice and stereotypes about women: they want women to be slender and slim, and they want women to have big breasts and buttocks; Women have to go to the kitchen; women are asked to be at home with their husbands and children, and they feel that women at home are useless and rotten wives. Women, on the other hand, cannot demand anything from men, just like Manuela at the beginning.

The most thought-provoking part of All About My Mother, I think, is the passage Mauela tells Rosa about her experience with her husband. In this society, the requirements for women are too strict. It took Lola two years to change from a man to a woman. At this time, Manuela, as a woman, can do anything in order to have a support, so she still lives with Lola. Even though Lola became a transgender woman, the domineering and paranoid of the patriarchal society in his bones has not changed. He wears bikinis and miniskirts that show where he can, but he is humiliated in every way after Manuela wears the same clothes. she.

I think that when we talk about women's rights these days, it's more like we're fighting for equality. Today's women's status is also obtained by their predecessors after countless revolutions and struggles. Women are never appendages of a male-dominated society, they have independent personalities. Almodovar's films, in which women appear differently from other films, are also a struggle to rehabilitate women.

At the end of the film, Almodóvar writes "... A todas las actrices que han interpretado actirices, a todas las mujeres, a los hombres que actuan y se enforman en mujer, a todas las personas que quieren ser madres. A mi madre". In this film, Manuela not only appears as a sexual, flesh-and-blood woman like the usual women in Almodovar's films, but she also has another identity: a mother. I was asked why I chose Manuela from "All About My Mother" as the centerpiece of this article, given that there are so many Almodóvar movies, and in almost every one of them, there is a woman with a strong character. It is true that Almodóvar is a genius director, and many of his films are full of feminism, but for me, "All About My Mother" is the film that inspires me the most.

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Extended Reading
  • Delmer 2022-03-21 09:01:58

    All the plot elements of melodrama have been diluted by Almodovar's compassionate and tender feelings. Death, love, transsexual drug prostitutes have become ordinary and abnormal under the tolerance of mother's love. The female relationship of several sub-lines, the usual structure of the play within the play. The scenery is as eye-catching as ever, and the soundtrack is as catchy as ever.

  • Osbaldo 2022-03-22 09:01:51

    The plot can be considered bizarre

All About My Mother quotes

  • Huma Rojo: There are people who think that children are made in a day. But it takes a long time, a very long time. That's why it's so awful to see your child's blood on the ground. A stream that flows for a minute yet costs us years. When I found my son, he was lying in the middle of the street. I soaked my hands in his blood and I licked them. Because it was mine. Animals lick their young, don't they? I'm not disgusted by my son. You don't know what it's like. In a monstrance of glass and topaz. I would put the earth soaked by his blood.

  • Agrado: I look like the Elephant Man!