After watching this movie and re-watching it for the second time, I shuddered when I heard the background music, and I dared not watch it for the third time at night. This is also the second Almodovar work I've watched.
For some reason, when I watched this movie in the afternoon, the color of the picture was pleasant, but watching it again at night was a paradoxical feeling. Also, it seems that during the day, I am more sensitive and focused on color and picture, and when night comes, hearing and imagination are better.
The man in the movie who was about to commit suicide by lying on the rails is always on my mind.
In the film, Julieta witnesses two deaths and is tortured by guilt for the rest of her life.
The first time was from a stranger .
Julieta was reading on the train when a man approached him. Julieta ignored it, walked to another carriage, and saw an elk chasing something. The train stopped halfway to rest, and when it started again, it suddenly braked. Curious Julieta walked to the original carriage and saw that the strange man's bag had fallen to the ground. He had arrived in advance and had no weight, so he opened it and saw that there was nothing inside. Later, when I saw a few people carrying stretchers, I realized that the person who had just approached me was planning to commit suicide by lying on the rails.
She began to blame herself, if she hadn't rejected the other party's approach just now, would it have had a different ending.
The second time was the death of her husband .
Because the husband had an affair with his old lover, Julieta talked about this, and the two broke up. The husband went fishing, while Julieta went out to relax. Unfortunately, he was killed in a shipwreck that day. The second daughter found out about this and was very conflicted. Finally, when I decided to go to spiritual practice, I completely "disappeared".
Julieta lost the center of her life.
When the daughter did this, on the one hand, she blamed herself, and she was still on a happy vacation the day after her father died; on the other hand, she wanted to make her mother feel the taste of loss.
Unlike "The Return", Almodovar's male character in this film is not absolutely good or bad. It's just that if you look at it from an emotional point of view, you are indeed criticizing men.
Julieta's mother is sick in bed, but her father falls in love with a nanny (a friend who translates her mother for many years in the movie). The two talked and laughed between their busy schedules, and even locked their mother in the room because they went out.
Julieta has been completely disappointed with her father, but what makes him really disappointed with men is that although her husband loves her, he will still solve his physical problems with his old lover Emma while she is not at home.
From Julieta's major it can be inferred that she is independent and idealistic. The role of the nanny is exactly the opposite of her.
Before retiring, the nanny said to Julieta, who was going to teach: "If you want a harmonious family, women must take care of them at home and not go out to work..." and looked at Julieta with a very weird look: " Similar to Tragedy will happen again ."
Real life shatters Julieta's idealism time and time again, and despite her husband having an affair, having sex with someone else, and having a dead wife, she still haunts him.
Life and death seem to have always existed in both of Almodóvar's films, "Return" and "Julietta" are closely related to death, so I shudder to watch it at night because I haven't really accepted "impermanence" this concept.
But there's also a big difference in the approach to death in the two films.
In "Return", the funeral procession is the expression of mourning for the deceased . Personally, I prefer this way of Julieta, personal and quiet . Return to the sea after death.
I just watched Lacan's theory of the real , and I saw the theory of "symbolic system of the real" in a video.
There is a relatively easy-to-understand statement in the video that when people hold funerals, they are actually comforting the living. This sense of ritual, to a certain extent, decomposes the pain of losing a loved one in reality.
In addition, multiple artist paintings metaphorically appear in the film .
After hearing the news from her daughter, Julieta finds the previous envelope. At this time, the background is a self-portrait of Lucian Freud .
Moved to the former apartment and wore a Klimt -style nightgown.
The base color at the beginning of the film is the blockbuster red, which symbolizes femininity and emotion.
When Julieta reminisced about her youth, she changed to a blue -based dress style.
But no matter how it changes, the contrasting colors of red and blue will draw a strong stroke in the audience's mind.
But I still have questions:
1. Is the role of the nanny just for opposing viewpoints to the protagonist? There is still a special meaning, because I always feel that there is some ambiguity between this cult-like nanny and the hero. Otherwise, why did she wear his coat when she left, and how could Julieta go out fishing after a fight with her husband?
2. The heroines in the movie are extremely tolerant and generous, and can endure extramarital affairs with their husbands. Julieta's father also said to her "more understanding and tolerance". In real life, I often hear from people around me that it is better to have less than one thing, and choose to be tolerant about such things. Tolerance is not difficult to achieve, the real difficulty is "repeatedly"... Harm!
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