Comment on "Bad Education" - I Am a Flower of Two Lives

Wilford 2022-04-22 07:01:36

The most real desires and desires of human beings are the two flowers that bloom in the quagmire. One of them reflects the most real side of human beings, and the other is stained with the most primitive animal desires. It gives people a sense of beauty that is open to the tea millet, and the richness of the muddy smell in the air is suffocating. Childhood experiences are the fundamental motivation for all of Ignaser's actions. In the dark night, he was blocked by the priest in the toilet cubicle. The priest pulled him from the place where the light could still shine into the shadow in front of him. The priest was like a delicate flower. Help, passively bear the silent vent of the priest's desires. The priest in the sacristy slowly leaned over, and the overwhelming blackness swallowed him up, as if a curtain was used to cover the priest's ugly desires and his powerless weakness. After singing by the lake, his face was slowly torn from the middle. It was the dividing line between purity and depravity, and it was also the split between the two sides of his heart. The childhood experience made him panic uncontrollably, and the mistakes he turned down were so absurd, there was a defect in his heart. Perhaps in order to make the mistake reasonable, perhaps to cover up the past of being raped by a man in order to deceive himself, Ignaser chooses to change sex, and the pictures of him showing off his naked breasts often appear in the film, which is a fig leaf for inner unease and immorality. The script was written by him, so it must be stained with his subjective color. How much truth is there? The fictional girlfriend, who is also a transgender, was renamed Sahara (Desert) in the script, quietly revealing the helplessness that he longed for recognition and the long-dry and boundless desire in his heart. When Enrique was drunk and had sex with him, the mirror behind Ignaser reflected the woman's back, which was his most real and represented the woman's heart. When confronting the priest in the office, Ignaser always looked down at the priest. He might have succumbed in reality, but he still struggled and resisted the priest in his heart. His script is a nostalgia, an attempt to repair the past, healing deep wounds by giving himself a happy ending. Ignaser wrote a letter to Enrique before he died. At this time, the top view in the picture was like Jujuan and the priest watching him, and it also carried a kind of pitiful pathos. The kind and holy singing slowly rose, and there was no more For his faith, he got a funeral song, and the last "I succeeded" he wrote was to successfully save himself. He is like a symbol, through which he can glimpse those similar tragedies. Juan is fearful and ambitious. He looked at Enrique through the window, did push-ups in front of the priest, the light from the blinds cut through him like a blade, the neat light and shadow like his fragmented desires. The bar is full of smoke, and people are most likely to expose themselves under cover. He inadvertently imitates the behavior of transgender people on the stage, and the joy that cannot be concealed at the corners of his mouth is like the semen of someone who has not given up his lust for a long time, thick and splashing around. When the film crew finished, he cried like a child, indulged without any scruples, and the unstoppable crying was a release. For the first time, he truly released his soul and saw his heart. At the same time, he regretted that it was him. The only chance to indulge, the lights around him dimmed, and he stood alone in the center, crying instead of roaring, like a vampire who couldn't see the sun, just touching his soul, and then retracting into his body again. All this constitutes the truth of his killing his brother - he is killing himself! The young Juan saw his future self in his brother, just like looking in a mirror, his naked and ugly appearance always reminded him of his sins, as if if his brother's life stopped here, he would not walk on the road that his brother walked. , will not continue to fall. He was afraid, he was weak, and he never dared to face his inner desires, so he chose to act to temporarily release the shackles that imprisoned his heart. The priest's face is always half-shadowed, and he loves all things beautiful and holy as much as he loves Ignaser's pure soul, and his eyes are so fascinated when he looks at pictures of children playing innocently, this is his desire. But the priest never escaped, he was unwilling to face his own desires, and his identity as a priest nailed him to the cross of the most holy and virtuous, so after changing his profession, he never let others call him a priest. Alleviate his moral guilt. He is good at shirking, blaming him for falling in love with Juan is too good, killing Ignaser seems to be just Juan's will, he is a numb executor, his life is always running wild, as long as he runs fast enough, sin will entangle not on him. He clearly sees his soul, indulges his desires, but always finds excuses to hide the truth. Did Enrique really love Ignaser? the answer is negative. The desire to relieve each other in childhood is not a proof of love at all, it seems that it is a little short of friendship. From memory to reality, from childhood to adulthood, the change process of the face is very distorted, and Enrique also lost himself with this distortion. The scene in the swimming pool is a tide of sexual desire, peeping at Juan's genitals, and a slightly obsessed look. The positions of the two are constantly changing, but they always keep watching each other. He doesn't love Juan either, they even make love. It was a close game and Juan was the object of his climb. The machine that seems to be running incessantly while filming, and the gears that also symbolize eternity are his endless desires, and his motivation for making this film has always been simple - profit. At the end of the film, the black door silently shows their dirty desires. Everyone lives for themselves, selfishly, regardless of the cost and others. Living itself is already such a hard thing, even if they linger in the dark like worms, Even if the true self is permanently locked in the mediocre but glamorous body - just want to live a better life, it is not clear whether it is right or wrong.

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  • Piper 2022-03-24 09:02:19

    A serious drama that does not rely on same-sex gimmicks to win, the plot is fascinating, the characters are intricately portrayed, there are no absolute good people, only tragic fate, and the title of the film points out the root of the evil of the church school. Gorgeous color contrast, unrestrained music, the first time to appreciate the charm of Almodovar.

  • Autumn 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    A very exciting two-line narrative, clever camera cuts and the child's moon river are impressive. Continuing the bad taste of "The Law of Desire", in a sense, this is a movie in which the younger brother and the priest who seduced the older brother murdered the transgender older brother and played the older brother in the film directed by the older brother's first love. With a full director personal label, Almodovar seems to have a preference for paranoia and drag queens.

Bad Education quotes

  • Ignacio: I think I've just lost my faith at this moment, so I no longer believe in God or hell. As I don't believe in hell, I'm not afraid. And without fear I'm capable of anything.