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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