When China is in the daytime, the United States is at night, but it is not the United States that is directly opposite the earth, and Latin America, which walks on this side during the day and flies on the other side at night. Watching a Latin American movie seriously, the literary narrator seems to be reading a novel, which is not too far from the world imagined by reading Latin American texts: rustic version of Western European aristocrats, bronze Indian maids, palm leaves adorning banquet halls, lonely love, and bullshit. The core of the story of a few calves. Five-star reservation, stable, write a movie review live!
The mother gave birth to her little daughter prematurely because she choked on tears from cutting onions. The placenta burst into tears and dried into twenty pounds of salt crystals. At the birthday party, my father died in anger because of the guest's green hat. According to the family rules, the youngest daughter will serve her mother as a servant all her life and never get married. The evil mother-in-law type mother asks the male protagonist who proposed to the youngest daughter to marry the eldest sister. The heroine wept and ate the cake that all the guests at the wedding cried and recalled the love of their lives. After three months of marriage, the male protagonist failed to consummate the marriage, so he had to pray to God beforehand and used a chastity quilt. The rose-roasted quail made by the heroine with bloody roses was integrated into her soul and love, and was eaten into everyone's body. The eldest sister was jealous, the mother was furious, and the male protagonist understood it. The second sister masturbated on the spot, unstoppable. Recalling the guerrillas who glanced at each other on the street, then the fiery love ignited the shower room through the bath water, and the fragrance of the fragrance attracted the guerrillas who were fighting fiercely with the enemy to leave the battlefield to search for them, and then hugged them and ran towards them. Out of the water, Hibiscus, in a riding position, holding a naked second sister and riding a horse far away. The first half of the film spares no effort to show these bridges that are very Latin American magical literature, both true and false, and it is difficult to distinguish between reality and reality. Feast for the eyes, dumbfounded.
The nonsense is over, the second half of the story is serious, and blood collapses. The operation of the male protagonist marrying his sister and getting close to his sister is inherently naive. The male and female protagonists want to have an affair behind their sister's back, but they are always followed by their mother and cannot. The desperate female protagonist and the male supporting doctor got engaged and then fell asleep with the male protagonist. She bravely confronted the doctor and said that she loved the male protagonist but could let the doctor take over. The Lord excitedly kissed the doctor and sent a good person card. Many years later, the eldest sister died of constipation, so the heroine and the hero finally got married and did a shot. The hero died when he saw the holy light, and the heroine died in a fire with the hero. The end.
Peel one by one.
Mama has created the image of the ultimate hypocritical feudal moral guardian, a cold-blooded wicked mother-in-law. Daughters, after death, the ghosts still linger and condemn the heroine. Defeating Mama defeats the old world.
The eldest sister is the heir of Ma Ma, pursuing happiness under the protection of old things: relying on semi-arranged marriages by parents to obtain her husband, maintaining love by virtue, and consolidating her status by family tradition. Feudal remnants.
The second sister is a typical liberator. She fell in love at first sight and eloped to the end of the world. Later, she grew into an excellent guerrilla. She was good at fighting and singing and dancing.
The heroine is the most miserable, down-to-earth looking for redemption, Cinderella-style oppressed and exploited by the power of the parents, losing the power of freedom and love, but never giving up the pursuit of love and freedom, not only that, she is also compassionate, considerate, gentle, kind, hard-working and brave, Just like the heroine. But she cheated with the male protagonist for true love, and cuckolded her fiance and sister...
The male protagonist didn't have to wash, so he went straight to the black, married his sister and then broke his shoes with the female protagonist, and it was easy to be discovered.
The male supporting doctor is the perfect pick-up man, I will always love you and respect your choice even if you love others, no matter if you love me or not, marry me or not. Some people think it's great, some people think it's cheap.
Then the theme is to break the traditional shackles, pursue true love and freedom, and respect women's rights.
In the 1990s, Mexico was still so closed and backward that it was necessary to promote the idea of breaking feudal traditions? This is already a leftover in Latin American literature in the 70s and 80s, right? At this time, I have to think of the story of Lao Ma's grandmother forcing her granddaughter to go on a prostitution tour, but the two stories are so different in expressiveness that the parental oppression in this version is artistically powerless but realistically Appears pompous.
The pursuit of true love should not be based on the premise of hurting and deceiving others. Even if the director asks the sister and the doctor to say such nonsense as I am willing to agree with you to break your shoes... The foreshadowing of the love between the male and female protagonists is not deep enough. Straight talk is suspected to be preaching, and the point of death is that the male protagonist whose personality has collapsed does not see any cuteness. This love is similar to cholera but far less deep.
Feminist justice, women have the right to choose their own lives and love, support. But here is overkill, so that there is suspicion of feminist bitch, the heroine is a scum in front of the doctor. Mama claimed that she didn't need a man to protect her but was raped and killed by a bandit, which is quite ironic...
To sum up, there is more magic than reality.
The evocative expression and imagery are still very Latin American:
Dead people do not need to negotiate, there is a sentence in the book, a scene in the film, just leave. Love doesn't need a reason, just a look. People have no other pursuits in life, and they expect to fall in love. Love is springing everywhere, but love is not devastated.
On the night of the engagement of the male protagonist and his sister, the female protagonist started to weave blankets. When she was heartbroken, she slept naked in the dovecote with the blanket. Later, she dragged a 40-meter-long blanket to elope with the doctor, and finally covered the blanket with the male protagonist. Cremation, a blanket of love and loneliness.
The burning fire appeared for the first time in the second sister's bathroom when she was masturbating. For a long time, the fire of the heroine was the unlit match in the doctor's mouth, but on the night when she faced love, a five-meter-high spark rose from the bonfire, and then lit the hero beside the bonfire. The last night was accompanied by candles all over the house, and the struck matches ignited the fire that burned the barn.
Food is the carrier of emotion, taste and emotion are connected, onion makes people cry, sad tears cake makes people cry, loveless food tastes like chewing wax, rose quail with blood of love hits the soul directly, irritable Ma Ma opens watermelon without a knife It's a big bang.
Gourmet Mexico, the food shot is impressive, in front of the live quail, the live quail is marinated with mashed rose petals with essential sesame oil and then baked until the surface is browned and decorated with rose petals, and the dark green watermelon bursts on the cutting board to reveal Crispy and juicy red flesh, whole plate of honey-colored grilled lamb chops, T-bone steak sprinkled with herb cheese sauce, lifebuoy-sized toasted bagels, roasted green peppers dipped in salad dressing...
Filmmaking is moderate. The male protagonist looks like a supporting character, the male supporting passers-by looks like a passerby, the female protagonist Tina has a face like Tina in Japan, both sisters are better-looking than her, and the doctor's aunt looks like Granny Feng or Granny Qian. Originally a place of singing and dancing, the soundtrack of the film is as barren as the description of music in Latin American literature. The picture is very plain, there are several common classic shots, and there are no bright spots. At the end, the male and female protagonists' bed scenes are so bad that they skip forward and skip, and I don't want to watch more for a second.
Five stars in the first half and three stars in the second half, they are two different pieces.
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