If you compare Almodovar and Fassbender's films together, you will definitely find similar situations, the protagonist’s hysteria, the most ugly depravity in various realities, one by one, and finally the guilt of human nature. Push to the extreme, and there is no choice.
Movie viewers can't help but sigh, whether they sympathize with the protagonist or are deeply helpless, which touches the soul of human nature. The reality of capitalism is so ugly and sinful, just to find a footnote to the superiority of our socialism, but this After all, it's just a movie, and the reality of art is no better than the reality of life.
Or, Almodovar would not look at it this way. He just wanted to peel off the skin of reality and slowly show us a little bit, from the early "The Labyrinth of Passion" and "Living Colors and Fragrance" to "Discussing Me." "Mom", etc., he will use his incisive and vivid expressions to break the routine and attract our attention little by little. This "Why should I be so fate?" "That's it. In 1986, when his style changed, the actor who played the heroine was the actor Carmen Mara he has been reusing.
The whole story is hopeless to despair. She is a cleaning lady in a Japanese swordsmanship hall. At the beginning of the film, she had a failed sexual relationship with a man who was taking a shower. When I got home, I faced the elder son who took drugs and the younger son who was gay. Husband seems to be a person who does whatever he wants. Later the lizard became the only pet in the family. The mother-in-law is an old child who knows nothing about world affairs, and the neighbor is either a prostitute or a pair of weird mother and daughter. The daughter has special abilities. Mother is an angry and weird woman, and in order to survive, she has to work, watching prostitutes and their clients make disgusting sex.
There is also a so-called couple of writers who are simply a pair of dirty liars. Walking in the story, no one pityed her. Inside and out, she felt extremely gloomy. Husband indulges in dreams of old German movie stars, and he can call and date with Gloria presumptuously. In anger, she took the bones of a pig leg and hit her husband as a headache, but she didn't expect her husband to be killed. What she didn't expect was that the policeman who handled the case was the "sexual impotent" who had sex with her at the beginning, that is, the writer's younger brother. Lizard, the only witness who committed the crime, was also thrown out of the window and fell to his death.
It seems that everything is logical, we can't see the grief of this white-haired grandma sending the black-haired man, nor can we see the son's howling and crying helplessly against the death of his father, the whole tone is so indifferent and merciless. Putting a series of quirks and evildoers together produces a realistic chain of degeneration, which shows the director's painstaking efforts.
At the end of the film, the heroine is safe and calm. The eldest son and grandma return to the farm in their hometown, and the younger son returns to his mother. The shattered home was freshly painted, and the windows became the only viewing point. The ugly reality seems to be gone. As long as there are people, life will continue, but no one knows: Maybe my fate should be this way, and what will happen in the future.
2005.4.12
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