Selfless prostitutes and prostitutes, selfish three men and two women

Sigurd 2022-03-16 09:01:08

This is only the second Almodovar movie, but I was deeply moved by all kinds of details.

If ordinary movies pay attention to dramatic conflict, then a good movie is a constant conflict, and a good movie can evolve conflict into a part of life. It has no intention of commenting, but silently narrates with keen insight.

In the vivid and fragrant, human nature is analyzed almost cruelly, but it does not make you feel false and contrived.

You will say: yes, life is like that, and despite our best efforts to hide it, everyone is selfish.

——Selfless prostitute and prostitute——

[Isabel]

Her appearance is helpless, painful, and ignorant, which may be because of her profession, she is a sex worker, and she is a marginal person in society.

It doesn't matter who caused her pregnancy, it doesn't matter why she got into the business, it doesn't matter how hard she raised her children, and even her death is just an understatement in the letter.

She is a person of little importance, her existence is dispensable; and the nature of her work makes her work a touch of humility and humility, as if she is not entitled to think that she has any importance.

However, it is such a "very unimportant person", like all noble, interesting, elegant, and wise women, who gave birth to a life with life and flesh, and the pain resounding through the sky.

She relies on satisfying people's desires in exchange for the most private money, but she doesn't seem to be eager for money, but like an educator, she selflessly left all her savings to her son.

The reality seemed to comfort her: taking pictures with the mayor, taking pictures with hospital staff, and appearing in newspapers and on TV were her glory and pinnacle. But from the beginning to the end, what she cherishes most is the photo with her son.

She completely accepted the truth of life and never questioned or resisted.

You can say she is ordinary, or rather, selfless.

[Bossman]

Chattering, chattering throughout the entire process of appearing.

But every word of this "sex sales manager" is not defending himself, but helping another person to solve one difficulty after another.

She lightly denounced a helpless and distressed mother in labor: "Baby, you're so stupid, you're actually going to have a baby." She yelled

"Bastard!"

After stopping the bus with her life, facing the cowardice of the bus driver, she only emphasized that "human life is at stake", and the rest was an unshakable expression: "Stop talking nonsense, I will not get off the bus."

After judging that the mother's amniotic fluid was broken, she temporarily decided to deliver the baby directly on the bus. While comforting the suffering mother, calmly ordered the bus driver to help.

Knowing that there were no knives and scissors, she bit off the umbilical cord with her mouth, and the corners of her mouth were covered with blood, but she smiled and said to the child: "Look, this is Madrid..."

In her eyes, discussing whether the world is fair seems like nothing. significance.

Because she knows that all the so-called justice is achieved by a mouth, a smile, and a roar.

She may neither agree with people's selfishness nor with people's selflessness, because survival leaves you no time to take care of these, all you can do is to be strong.

——Selfish three men and two women——

Three men and two women, one person is destined to be out, and it would have been early to avoid harm.

But love is never peaceful, its birth is vigorous, and its end is sad and painful.

Love is not so great, it is always about possession, time, and giving. A deep connection creates an inertia, and the violation of that brings pain. But breakups always exist, just because love is not eternal, it always fades with time.

To make love last forever, unless you freeze the happy moment forever, the way to freeze it can be photos, sex, or death.

[Victor]

From beginning to end, Victor may not have loved Elena deeply.

He dedicated his virginity to the girl and thought that "the night of having sex in the toilet was great" as a revelation of love.

He stole money to buy pizza and met Elena stubbornly, as if to continue his goodwill towards himself and prove "I'm a good lover".
This stubbornness gave her a prison sentence, and the so-called love turned into real hate. The logic here is very interesting: he looks at the cage above his head, and the male performance of David in the Paralympics on TV, with a kind of anger in his eyes; Na, on the contrary, was jealous of the disabled police officer David, who was training hard in a wheelchair and tried to save him.

And the whole plan of revenge is not to take back Elena, but "to abruptly stop at the climax", so that Elena can't get what she wants from him, and avenge what Elena did to him in the past.

Such brief encounters, intimacy, and accidents can shape a man's values ​​for such a long time.

The funny thing is that, compared to the domineering and logical confusion that craved love at first, he now craved revenge and hatred, but he was calm and quick-thinking.

His growth and revenge plan in the film is progressive and successful. He met Clara and became the "best lover" in the training of a mature woman; according to his own choice, he voluntarily abandoned Clara and stood on the stronger side of the relationship; he provoked David and let him Full of pressure and vigilance, at the same time exposing the truth that Sancho pulled the trigger, causing David to be disabled, provoking the relationship between David and Sancho, and keeping the relationship between the three men in a triangular state; he used his work attitude to get Elena's favor. Sure; he teased Elena with his words; he managed to possess Elena; in the end Victor and Elena came to the end, and David chose to leave; he and Elena had a child...

but this is the ideal love? When you fall in love with someone, shouldn't you be willing to sacrifice everything for her? Still, falling in love with a person is because you have given everything for him/her, and you fall in love with the memories carried by that person, and fall in love with the self that cannot be denied.

Having successfully conquered the opposite sex who had said the most vicious comments to himself, Victor proved himself to be the "best lover".

【Elena】

A woman's love is not like a man. It always starts with sex. When love comes, the skin-to-skin relationship does not have any sense of ritual for women, but only comes naturally. For women, there is only love that they feel. , is the eternal ceremony. Desire and love, women seem to be better than men.

But women also have weaknesses. She is so sensitive that she interprets many incidents as emotions and stores them as memories. Memories may call for guilt or passion, in short, they will be mixed in complex thoughts and become part of love. The repeated entanglement of this kind of love in the present, in the past, and in the future determines that women have a sensitive view of love.

Elena is such a woman. Between two men, her choice became the focus of the plot.

She had a good impression of Victor, but Victor's arrogant remark made her immediately give up her desire to continue to meet him; David saved her and made her feel in love, she would bathe David, Having sex with him in the bathtub; Victor's emphasis on prison makes her feel guilty, and finally she gets Victor's "revenge"; she confesses to David the truth about her infidelity and prays for it Forgive; she is worried about the safety of David and Victor; even at the end of the film, she will keep in touch with David.

Aside from the drug-punk image at the beginning of the film, Elena is a giver. This logic is not difficult to understand, because women are giving most of the time. They give affection, hurt, and life.

For them, love will always be a mysterious existence, because they want to appreciate what it feels like to be pampered. In fact, being given is always an appearance. In love, a woman is always the biggest giver.
A philanthropist Elena is also one of them. This kind of giving is not so much a choice as it is an essential conflict. Her giving is to break through her guilt, self-blame, and to make up for the constant sacrifice of herself due to giving.

[David]

In David, I saw the most complete humanity.

He advised Sancho to "drink less and don't be impulsive" because he was the third person who felt guilty and feared; he tried his best to stop Sancho from venting his anger "for personal gain", and even sacrificed his ability to walk for the rest of his life; Disabled, but living a life full of passion, he became a Paralympic basketball star; he would slide a wheelchair to Victor to confront him in order to defend his wife; he would take pictures of Clara's affair and report it to Sancho, trying to kill with a knife; he will give up after Victor is with Elena.

He is kind, passionate, brave, selfish, cunning, and cowardly.

But all of these qualities make up the truest human nature.

[Clara and Sancho] The

two announced the disillusionment of their view of love by shooting at each other.

The stubbornness to love reflects the deepest cowardice behind it, but it is presented in the most forceful way.

Maybe love is a war, but no one wants to sacrifice. Therefore, "hold the hand of the child and grow old with the child".

Sid

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Live Flesh quotes

  • Clara: The bastard's stopped drinking.

    Víctor Plaza: And you?

    Clara: I'm drinking even more.

  • Clara: I'm not asking you to love me! I love you enough for both of us.