beginning of the film is white on a black background—the whole country has declared a state of emergency. Laws affecting freedom of speech, residence, association, and habeas corpus have been declared temporarily invalid.
Then followed by the red letter on black - Madrid January 1970
What time is this? The last years under Francisco Franco.
The camera is on the landlady doing needlework, and the news is being broadcast on the radio, to the effect that a small group of people in Spain are engaged in activities recently. We represent all social strata to settle them. Spain needs stability and harmony. Then the landlord took Pennet to the hospital and stopped the bus and gave birth to a baby boy on it. It's not over yet, I brought another one - the mayor and the officers have expressed their condolences to Pene, and the bus company also gave the baby boy a free life-long transportation card. ).
In another flash, 20 years later, the baby boy grew into a young Victor and met a young woman Irina. It's a collision of old and new, remember Victor's line - it's my first - please, 20 years old for the first one? Well, let's re-interpret the director's setting of Victor's identity: he was born on a "righteous" bus since he was a child, and has a lifetime ticket under the Franco system. The child under the hood, the child who grew up in a conservative environment, even after a one-night stand, still misses the promise that he made casually with the other party. As for Irina, growing up in an environment where the old and new systems alternated, things that people in the past dared not say and dare to do have become a matter of course in her generation. Living alone, clubbing, taking drugs... Since they met, the conflict in the movie has arisen.
There's also plenty of conflict in the film that can be seen as metaphors, if you will. For example, Sancho sees the nameless fire from Victor, which can also be regarded as a conflict between the old and the new. Although Victor is completely innocent, a middle-aged man like Sancho who has tried to make changes is still to no avail. The image in miniature of the old times will still be angry at the new people who are full of vitality; for example, the image of David, a good policeman but was shot for no reason, disabled and won a Paralympic men's basketball medal but can't do anything about sex, right? A metaphor for the insignificance of those caught up in the trend of the times; for example, the image of Clara, with intermittent amnesia? Can't find the target? Can you only satisfy your most basic desires through sex?
Fortunately, there is Victor, fortunately the director let him continue. Being selected by the system and negotiated by wrongful prisoners, these forces imposed on him did not make him stay in place like others, continue to grow, irreversible.
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