A film about happiness, witty, clever and sensual. It's about love, memory, art, motherhood, lovers, and most of all about yourself, and can be frustratingly indulgent in the hands of a smaller director. But Pedro Almodóvar is a master of self-referentiality and intertextuality: film within film, story within story, dream within dream. The director uses his creativity to generate electricity, and the film runs so smoothly and so enticingly. There is a line in the movie that I like very much: "Life without movies is meaningless". This sentence is the most real voice of director Almodovar, and it is also the voice of many of us. If there is no movie, life will definitely be less colorful, less thinking and moving. The protagonist of the film, Salvador, is a famous director who was once a smash hit, but now he is getting older and sicker. He no longer has a steady stream of creativity due to physical reasons and cannot continue to create. Salvador, who has lost all the focus of his past life, is depressed every day, and even tries to take drugs to relieve his pain. In the process, he gradually recalled his childhood. Everything at that time was beautiful and gentle, and my parents were still alive. His mother would take him to the river to wash clothes with a group of women, help him mend his socks with holes, and take him to find his father...  This is the best memory a person has for his mother.
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