Recently, I watched Almodovar again, "A Woman on the Brink of Spiritual Breakdown" (also translated as "Women Are Crazy for Herself", 1988), and I have seen five other titles before: "Living Colors and Fragrance", "Bound Me , Tie Me", "Love in High Heels", "My Mother" and "Speak to Her". The homosexual Almodovar, most of the subjects of his works are women. He likes to talk about women and men who have transformed into women.
Almodóvar, known as a master, sometimes makes his movies as noisy as soap operas. Almodóvar’s women are mostly neurotic, tacky and ugly: wearing bright lipstick, wearing huge false eyelashes, wearing big red and green, startled, talk like five hundred ducks, cry like pulling alarm. In that "Woman on the Brink of Mental Breakdown", this neuroticism is extremely magnified. Several women crying and laughing with varying degrees of craziness: drugging in tomato juice, burning the bed, throwing the phone, and finally digging out. Two guns came out. The men were either laid down on the ground or frightened. ——At this moment, we, women who are watching this movie, just smile knowingly. Yes, touch the bottom of your own heart, which woman has never had the urge to desperately go crazy?
Almodovar likes to use actors who are familiar with him. This is very good. I am not afraid of copying. I care about the quality that is guaranteed. In "Jing", in addition to the queenly heroine Carmen Maura, there is also a very young Antonio Banderas. At that time, his slightly simple and honest appearance is not the same as the sexuality of the later Hollywood era. Oh, by the way, the girlfriend in Banderas is actually Rossy de Palma, the super ugly horse-faced girl who has appeared many times in opiums! Every time I saw this weird woman, I couldn't help crying or laughing. I always think she looks like a certain image, but now I finally remembered it: Picasso’s masterpiece "The Wife of Avignon"...
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