/ Organized by Fan Daming /
Time: 10:55-11:10 am, October 20, 2012 (Saturday)
Venue: Henglu Art Museum Lecture Hall, No. 202, Nanshan Road, Hangzhou
(The scene after the viewing of Almodovar's "Love in High Heels" at Henglu Art Cinema)
Participants: (Preface) Fan Daming, Ma Yile, Jin Aiwu, Li Chunhua, Yuan Kang, Wu Wei (Viewers: Chen Xingsheng, He Ji, Ji Boqing, Fang Yonggen, Cai Zhiyun, Zhang Yun, Wu Jiang, etc.)
Moderator: Fan Daming
Record: Wu Wei, the
heroine Lei Bejia, in the whole film, is equal to indirectly and directly killing two big men
Fan Daming: "Love in High Heels" " is a film directed by Almodovar in 1991, and it has the same style as the last film "Woman on the Brink of Mental Breakdown". The heroine of this film, the TV anchor Rebecca, was actually a very scheming and ruthless child when she was a little girl, different from the usual innocent and lively children. , she even caused his stepfather's death in a car accident by secretly swapping out his stepfather's medicine bottle. In the whole film, she is equivalent to indirectly and directly killing two big men: one is her stepfather, the other is her mother's lover and eventually the man who became her husband. And they were both men with whom her mother had a close relationship.
The biggest suspense point in the film is actually the judge
Ma Yile: the plot of this film is quite tortuous. Whether she killed the person, her mother killed it, or someone outside, we can't figure it out until the final conclusion. The biggest suspense point in the film is actually the judge. The judge knows the whole thing. The judge wanted to save her and liked her. The judge was actually a client. He was just thinking about how to help her and how to save her. As a result, we also know that this judge is the shemale, which is beyond the audience's expectations.
Fan Daming: Judge Dominican can be said to be a "three-dimensional person". In addition to being a judge by profession, he sometimes becomes a "shemale" Le Dahl, attracting Rebecca, who misses her mother, because "shemale" imitates her mother's singing on the show. Style - The latter often goes to Rosa's show to watch "Ladyboys" sing because he misses his mother who went to Mexico; in addition, the judge plays the role of Hugo in a red leather jacket as a police eyeliner and becomes a female volunteer in the prison Paula's fiance. The film actually endows the character of the judge with a surreal, somewhat uncanny function.
There are two points between the dramatic turning point of the film and the greatest singularity, and they are both manifested as role transitions
: Fan Daming has two points between the film's dramatic twists and the greatest singularity, and both are manifested as role transitions. One is the female anchor Rebecca who directly admitted in her live broadcast that she killed her husband - from an objective reporter of media news to a murderer who surrendered to the whole society. One is that the judge, like an omniscient god, knew all the activities of Rebecca and the shemale alone in the backstage dressing room, including sexual activities - it turned out that the shemale was dressed by the judge. Here, we may ask whether the shemale and the judge are the same person originally, or whether the judge just dressed up as a shemale by accident - the film seems to cause some doubts to the audience at this point. Of course, at least the shemale that Rebecca met backstage that night was the judge herself.
Wu Wei: The judge and the ladyboy should always be the same person.
The repressed love and contradictory hatred between mother and daughter, as well as the daughter's love and hatred for her mother and its transformation
Jin Aiwu: In the end, the daughter was released, and she slowly mediated the result of this matter by herself. It was the mother's love for her daughter that led her to go To do that - the love between mother and daughter, all kinds of things before, make the mother bear the result of this murder in order to save her daughter and to "atone for her sin". In the end, everyone's feelings became more comfortable through communication. It used to be the kind of repressed love and contradictory hatred. In the end, there was no hate, only love.
Fan Daming: The basic dramatic conflict of the film is mainly composed of love, hatred and hatred in the relationship between mother and daughter. The relationship between mother and daughter is actually very deep. But in the end of the film, we can see that when the tension between mother and daughter is completely relieved, it is also the day when the daughter loses her mother forever, which is extremely sad.
Almodovar's films focus more on family affection and are interestingly combined with many marginal elements
Li Chunhua: I have seen several of Almodovar's films, he pays more attention to family affection, but his family affection and many marginal elements , like a fun combination of the shemale element. I have seen "Everything About My Mother" before, which is a little more family friendly. I like the use of opera-like forms in his movies. In another film "Tell Her", there is a silent film, which is very good, I like it very much.
Fan Daming: We will all release the films you mentioned just now, and there will be 4 of his films next month.
The color, music and tone of the film
Zhu Weifan: It turns out that "All About My Mother" was also shot by Almodovar. The styles in the two films are relatively consistent, and the impact of color is highlighted in it - red , red high heels, red clothes, red like blood. There is also Spanish music in the film. There are two kinds of music: one is more nostalgic and memoir music, background music, and has a relatively strong tone; the other is the music when dancing in the prison, which is the music that raises the tone in the whole film. Although the main color of the film is red, the emotional tone of the entire film is gloomy.
As a popular singer, the mother has infinite charm, but no one can own
Fan Daming alone: As a popular singer in this film, the mother in this film is the same as the heroine Pepa in "Woman on the Brink of Mental Collapse". Influential celebrities, they themselves are charismatic. In fact, the film has repeatedly proved this to us: one is the daughter Rebecca, who has devoted her life to imitating and chasing her mother, and wants to be like a mother; People (mother's old lover), once they see their mother again, their old love will "resurrection"; the third is the show performed by the shemale, which is a complete imitation of her mother's behavior and singing style.
The film also potentially seems to show us such a cognitive relationship: the mother is so charming, like a god, that she can only be appreciated by the public as a public lover, and can never be possessed by anyone alone (at least in the case of her daughter Rebecca). This is what Jia has in mind), otherwise it will bring him death. In this regard, it seems that only the judge really knows the stakes in this - the judge is also obsessed with the mother, but it is enough, at most, a man disguised as a woman (transvestite) imitates his mother in the image of a "shemale", or just achieves possession A mother's daughter is fine. In the film, we see that the judge achieved a successful imitation of his mother by transforming into a ladyboy. Not only did he live in peace, but he also became famous (of course, in the name of a ladyboy). On the contrary, the mother's husband and lover (Rebecca's stepfather and Rebecca's husband) both died because of the possession of the mother; so did Rebecca herself - she wanted to chase after her mother because of her lack of nature (such as short stature, etc.) ), never able to reach the height of her mother's temperament and art, which not only filled her with jealousy and hatred, but also became a murderer and ruined her future.
The film focuses on the emotional and moral aspects of interpersonal relationships, especially mother-daughter relationships
Fan Daming: The ending of the film is: the murder suspect Rebecca was released on bail because she was pregnant, and the judge played an important role in it (He is the father of Rebecca's new life, and he is going to propose to Rebecca); meanwhile, the mother, before dying of a heart attack, sincerely takes care of her daughter because of her guilt for her upbringing. assumed the responsibility for murder. Almodovar's films clearly focus on the emotional and moral aspects of interpersonal relationships, especially the film's specific mother-daughter relationship. If it is said that at the real social level, the common sense should be "law is above everything" or "law is greater than emotion", then in this artistic story of the film, this relationship is reversed.
Compiled on October 31, 2012 and supplemented on November 2 (the last two sections of the summary are written discussions after the meeting)
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