Living in Spain, seeing Almodóvar's new film release really doesn't evoke instinctive excitement. As the most well-known Spanish director in the world, Almodovar will make some commercial films of Wang Jing level when he has nothing to do, which is not bad, but Hollywood plays too much with this type of subject, and there is no need to watch him. Although this movie also invited first-line stars, Antonio Banderas, Penny Lope Cruz, and Raul Arevalo, who is quite famous in local TV dramas, but just as the domestic traffic gods cannot guarantee the quality of the story, there is nothing special. Notice.
This time the story is well told, with three timelines and several characters interspersed in different stages of the protagonist's life, but it doesn't make people feel confused at all. There is a warm little surprise at the end of the film, which can only be said by Almodovar The power of the story is superb.
Those who are used to American blockbusters may find the storyline too loose, but Almodóvar's narrative approach is refreshing in my opinion. There is no clumsy laying out, there is no consistent heroine and heroine to promote the development of the plot, there is no tearing, and there is no dramatic conflict where you thought there would be dramatic conflict. In the words of the male protagonist in the play, a good actor will not cry every time he has the opportunity, but will control his tears when it is time to cry.
First of all, I'm not trying to summarize all the story lines of the movie, this review is just trying to analyze the relationship between the male protagonist and his mother.
The story begins with a well-known director suffering from various illnesses who is invited to attend the screening of the restored version of the movie he made 30 years ago. He decides to reconnect with the male protagonist who broke up because of disagreements and ask him to join him. Attend events together. The male protagonist is a drug addict. In the male protagonist's house, the director came into contact with heroin for the first time. Under the influence of drugs, he returned to his childhood and remembered a lot of time spent with his mother when he was growing up.
My mother is a strong working woman. Although my father can only let my family live in a natural cave, my mother still makes the cave feel like home through hard work and wisdom. Let the son teach the masons to read and count in exchange for the masons to help them paint the walls and install the sinks.
The mother has a devout faith, and with the help of the church members, she let her son go to a church school and receive a free education. There, his son's talent was discovered, and he embarked on the path of artistic creation. However, with the self-awakening of his son and the various choices he made afterwards, there was no room for his mother to live in his life.
The director's life has been deeply imprinted by his resolute mother. There is no dramatic conflict, no mother-son tearing, but the mother can say that you are not a good son in her later years. Because when your father died, you didn't want me to live with you. And when I said this, there was no resentment, no argument, just a fact, I could take care of you at that time, but you chose not to.
When the son heard his mother's evaluation of him for the first time, he just responded instinctively, how can you say that to me, mother? Am I not taking care of you? The mother just continued to express her own views. There was no tears in the familiar mother-in-law dramas, no moral kidnapping, no accusation, and no redemption. Only at the end, my son said, Mom, I know that living the way I want has actually caused the biggest disappointment in your life, sorry. No hugs, but reconciliation.
I have watched a lot of European movies, and I feel that the situation is really not big, and I will not save the whole world at every turn, because Europe has had hundreds of years to settle down, success and failure, honor and disgrace will be wiped out in front of time, who really Who has been saved, and who has really changed who? So it's better to tell small stories, watch small lives, and create small universes one after another. At least in that environment, the feelings are real, the behaviors are logical, and the stories are believable. Then, I responded to the words of Eastern philosophy, one flower is one world, one leaf is one bodhi.
Finally, thanks to Almodovar, after so many, so many pains, he chose a gentle ending and healed people's hearts.
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