Depressed people

Kaya 2022-01-08 08:04:01

Almodovar, in my eyes, is a director with full of personality. His films often set off some alternative waves in ordinary life, while boldly involving taboo topics, returning to universal emotions after dramatic stories, for you A heart-warming blow is a relaxing movie-watching experience. However, the 2009 "Broken Embrace" made me a little disappointed. It retains many of the characteristics of Almodovar movies, but lacks that kind of personality in the story, and less emotionally the last kind of touch.

Soon after the film started, it reminded me of the director's "Bad Education". It also has a play-in-the-play structure, and the director is the protagonist, as well as reminiscences of the past. In fact, when you watch Almodovar’s movies, you can say a lot of "also." His movies carry a significant Almodovar gene, you know it at a glance, but each one can play some new tricks. For example, Almodovar's movies often have at least two clues, and they love to present reality and memories at the same time, reflecting and connecting with each other. The advantage of this is that events in ordinary life often arouse suspense. In this movie, I saw a blind director, Matteo, who was extremely talented and flicked a girl who helped him to cross the street on the sofa. Then his female assistant appeared, and the relationship with him seemed a little ambiguous, and then there was another one. I hope that the director who wrote the screenplay with him makes the blind guide uneasy, and dramatic suspense appears, for Mao, for Mao, who seems to be a little turbulent now, to show a panic and sadness, and then back to the past, the beauty appears, the director His eyes can still find this beauty, so you can basically guess that many of today's prodigal sons are cynical, because there was an unforgettable love, then, what is his story?

If the beginning of the film still made me feel very much, disappointment followed one after another. The biggest disappointment is the story. The story of Almodovar often has a feature that I can't figure out, but the story of this film It's so clichéd. I almost saw Lena, played by Cruz, appear on the stage. Seeing her and Mateo face each other, I knew that she was going to be on good terms with him. Combining with the current situation of Mateo, I immediately thought that Lena was half dead, and Matteo. At first glance, the relationship between Ou and his assistant is a person with some emotional stories. As for the story of the wealthy businessman in the middle looking for Lena as his lover, and then burning with jealousy and revenge, this is simply too cliche, and how could Almodovar express such a cliche such a story?

Emotionally, the film retains the taste of Almodovar. There are passionate courtships, selfishness and coldness in the film. Compared with the plain plot, the emotional clues are more dramatic, Matteo There is a simple taste of true love supremacy with Lena. Almodovar showed it fierce, but suppressed the sadness. Lena was full of her father’s treatment of illness and commitment to being a rich business lover to the discovery of the outbreak of true love. Emotional tension. And Matteo’s assistant’s emotions were more subtle and indirect, but also with a kind of depression, her hesitant eyes, her hesitation stopped, and at the end it exploded with a flood of impact. . The son of a wealthy businessman has a repressed youth. He is a common gay character in Almodovar movies. He was suppressed by his father from sexual orientation to ambition, and was dismissed by Matteo and Lena. In the end, he burst into interweaving. The complex emotions of kindness and hatred. Hateful people must be pitiful. The repression of rich businessmen is even more impressive. Men try to use money to make up for the lack of physical charm and old age, but they still find that they are just used as a tool. Experts interpreted the mouth shape of the photographed wife's dialogue with others, and the final outbreak was desperate violence. Repression, suppressed emotions can be seen everywhere in this film. Almodovar’s film structure is often like this. Through accidents, it evokes an unbearable memory in people’s hearts, allowing the frozen memories to reappear, and repressing emotions. Release, let the mind be liberated. Therefore, it is worth mentioning that the son of Mateo’s assistant is actually his son, the sunny youth. In the repressive emotional story, he maintains the trueness. In the past, it was because he was still a child. Know how to suppress, but now it is because the people around him release the suppressed emotions, and it makes him feel more relaxed. I really like the feeling that Almodovar movies often have. After the stormy emotions, everything is calm, and everyone still has to live a good life. However, perhaps because the story is too plain, the ending is guessed to be inseparable, and the last warmth and humanistic strike still feels bad.

In my opinion, what this movie brings is not to say "the best", nor is it "good" Almodovar, it can only be said that it has basically demonstrated its level. The fragmentation of the suppressed life is expressed by the director with broken photos. It is indeed full of sadness. And because of all kinds of willingness, many of us are still suppressing our emotions in our lives, but we don't know whether it will suppress our lives or bring unpredictable. break out.

Finally, with a sigh of divergence, when you see Cruz is still naked in the film, think about China. Those stars who rely on nakedness are still living and moisturizing, but Tang Wei, who is naked, is still there. Being banned inexplicably, the Chinese film circle is really depressing.

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Extended Reading

Broken Embraces quotes

  • [first lines]

    [in Spanish, quoting English subtitles]

    Modelo: What's your name?

    Mateo Blanco: Harry Caine.

    [voiceover]

    Mateo Blanco: I used to be called Mateo and I was a film director. I was always tempted by the idea of being someone else, as well as myself. Living one's life wasn't enough, so I invented a pseudonym, Harry Caine, an adventurer who, as fate would have it, became a writer. I had him sign all the scripts and stories I wrote. For years, Mateo Blanco and Harry Caine shared the same body, mine. But a moment came when suddenly I could only be Harry Caine. I became my pseudonym. A self-made writer made by himself. There was just one unforseen detail. Harry Caine would be a blind writer.

  • [last lines]

    [in Spanish, quoting English subtitles]

    Ray X: That's what we've got re-edited.

    Mateo Blanco: Do you think it's worth carrying on, or is it crazy?

    Diego: What? I pissed myself laughing. I'm dying to see what happens.

    Judit García: It's wonderful, Mateo!

    Diego: It's hilarious. You have to re-release it.

    Mateo Blanco: No, what matters is to finish it. Films have to be finished, even if you do it blindly.