When Almodovar Met Monroe

There is nothing new under the sun, when Almodovar meets Monroe, Julia becomes Juliet, the story is still the same story, when the cold north hits the burning south, the director known for his understanding of women, let go of those cold And the destructive passion and determination looming in temperance, but a different kind of purity and enthusiasm is laid out. New bottle of old wine, this is still an Almodovar story, another version of "All About My Mother". Just as the wolf running on the icy wasteland in the middle of the night outside the train window in the novel was replaced in the movie with a deer with huge horns to show some magical colors, Almodovar has no intention of repeating Monroe's story. .

What Julia in "Opportunity" wants to break free is a life imprisoned by inertia. The fisherman from the far and cold coastline only provides an excuse and a direction. The situation of dragging his sick wife and the somewhat barbaric sexual relationship in the fishing village are in contrast to Juliet's rigorous and elegant background in classical literature and her obscure academic career, creating a certain tension in her abandonment and re-selection. Whether it is the choice and escape in "Chance", the so-called betrayal in "The Rush", and the mother-daughter relationship looking back in the evening in "Silence", the story is always about the woman's one-sided, destruction, escape and return, insistence Thoughts and tactfulness, passion and numbness, are not necessarily related to love. Monroe directly presents the results, but the disappearance of those flashy moments and twists and turns in the process actually makes the novel rise from the specificity of one person and one thing to a complex and delicate universal meaning.

Almodóvar moved the story to sunny, colorful Spain, and the brightly colored seaside cottages made it difficult to connect it with a dark and violent accident. The beautiful Spaniards sport aggressive explosive heads, and the intimate scenes in the late-night carriage lead the story to a runway of passion and desire, blurring the connection between the dramatic suicide and the fate of the characters. Julia's destructive self-selection was replaced by Julieta's sudden passion for devotion and betrayal and injury stories. It is still a story about women, but it is no longer related to a single individual. The pattern of self-selection has also changed into Love-hate entanglement and secrecy and pain. Desire, infidelity, mother-daughter relationship, friendship between women... Everything has returned to the most familiar track of Almodovar. The end is a kind of calm, not forgetting to give people hope and warmth, just like forgiveness from the opposite sex. and soothing.

There is nothing new under the sun, such as Monroe, the temperate introspective, Almodóvar, the enthusiastic and bright, and it is fortunate that we always have those who look at them with wise, fresh eyes.

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