His films have an air of intertwining reality and fantasy. The themes, pictures, characters, and language are full of rich imagination, wandering between objective records and fantasy transcendence. Most of the works are not nostalgic, do not reflect, and do not consider the future of human society, but pay great attention to the real society; the lens language is concise, concise and sharp; various artistic techniques such as melodrama, popular comedy, new reality, black humor, postmodern, Exaggeration and so on merge with each other to create an art that is a mixture of various artistic characteristics such as traditional culture, Hollywood culture, modern popular culture, postmodernism, baroque culture and so on.
This "Love High Heels" was taken in 1991. It is a work that expresses the relationship between mother and daughter and explores the world of women. The props in the film present a distinct Baroque style with a strong artificial aesthetic. In 1992, he won the French Caesar Prize. It is still about women - Rebecca growing up in a dysfunctional family, star mother, lack of fatherly love, the influence of social media, and a neglected life, making her eager to be valued by her mother, and thus killing her stepfather , married his mother's lover, and murdered his own husband because of his mother's return. After a series of complicated cases, Rebecca was released, and her mother died of illness. Before she died, she took the blame for Rebecca, and the mother and daughter were reunited.
In terms of growth, it is not difficult to find from Rebecca's flashback that she is ignored. The wrong education of the family gave her a wrong way of growing up; and the big environment is the complex collision of Mexican colonial culture. Because the family had no shelter for her, she murdered her stepfather, and thus the child's values were lost. These are also the subjective reasons for what happened later - factors of the protagonist's character. When she was growing up, she was always accompanied by mass media such as TV and advertisements. The guiding role of these mass cultures in a child's growth cannot be ignored. All of this shapes the character of the heroine and the reasons for the events. Later, when the girl grows up, the family relationship with her mother becomes a stranger-like estrangement, and even a momentary emotional expression is needed by society. In the end, the mother and daughter reconciled, but after being attacked, jealous, and suspicious, and the mother also took the blame for her daughter, but the premise is that the mother is about to die, so the feelings between mother and daughter are extremely complicated and impure. The factors are among them, but fortunately they are reconciled, so it doesn't matter to discuss its authenticity, but this is the process of the girl's growth - regaining the old family affection.
Since it is a female theme, of course, we must discuss female topics. The female characters in the film are disorganized and lost, and the male instrumental score of the clarinet shows that women are given a male identity. When a woman's emotions are impacted, even the mother-daughter affection immediately turns into jealousy between the two women. Even in the love scene in the film, the male conquest and the female panic become the weak gesture. In society, women are still in a disadvantaged position to be pursued. The "high heels" in the title face the symbol of women, and "you can't get down when you wear high heels" is a metaphor that women can't make their own choices from top to bottom, which is the passive nature of modern society. Dancing in prison, looking at women through bars - women are just prisoners to be watched. Women's inner monologue, jealousy and sacrifice in this environment are inescapable of life.
In addition to growth and women, this film also has to do with the media, the uncertain characters of the characters, etc., so I won't describe them one by one. After all, growth and women are the main content.
The film uses a lot of features of advertisements, plot films, murder films, and TV programs, and analyzes the director's tendency to evaluate the metamorphosis of modern people under the influence of mass media; when using the features of plot films, the parallel montage has an artistic expression.
The flamboyant colors, paranoid themes and passionate love in Almodóvar's films are staggering. But it all doesn't matter, in Pedro's eyes, life and life are superfluous, his life is ridiculed and ridiculed in heavy obscurity, each of his stories is weird and thought-provoking, conquering and being conquered are all It has become a symbol of turning stone into gold in his works. Marginal groups and alternative love have become mainstream under his lens, and the weird atmosphere and gaudy colors are so logical, as if that is the original form of life.
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