Almodóvar's films have a sense of historical depth. He is good at making multi-layered and multi-faceted perspectives and analyses of an event, and skillfully connecting seemingly unrelated trivial matters into a luminous pearl on a necklace. "Living Fragrance" has a unique and ingenious structure. The film depicts five unrelated urban men and women who collide with each other under a very accidental encounter, sparking emotional sparks. When their feelings are at their most intense, they will make choices that they can't even control, and all this is dominated by an irreversible thing-desire, so hatred, betrayal, and sacrifice all come together into a vivid picture A picture of spiritual fighting.
In Almodovar's film world, emotions are always extreme and passionate, and desire is always the master of any human behavior, and even the weirdest behavior can't escape the trajectory of this law of desire. The main line of "Fragrant Living" seems to be love and revenge. In fact, this is only a superficial decoration. The motive force that really promotes the development of the plot is hidden in the depths of people's souls, that is, the hearts of men and women who eat and drink in the world. anxiety and longing.
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