The whole movie is very clean and the picture is extremely crisp. Spanish movies actually have a lot of exposed and bloody scenes. Baleno (why is this name a bit familiar, it seems to be a clothing brand?) When taking care of Alicia, who is in a vegetative state, the camera is not hidden at all, and you are blessed to see male friends with beautiful breasts. I remember flashbacks of Hollywood movies - if the quilt slips off before and after the sex scene, and the camera doesn't switch, it's an art film;
Faithful.
As for gore, Marco's girlfriend is a bullfighter. The scene was still quite shocking.
But even so, the whole movie has no erotic feeling at all. The sun is transparent, the scenery is clear, and the characters are clean. Even if Baleno is in a prison, even the lines of the movie say that it is not like a prison. Although the main axis of the film is a rape case, it is more artistic than a literary film. The focus of the audience is on Baleno's beautiful and somewhat perverted psychology.
Like all literary films, "TALK TO HER" has very romantic passages, but such romance has a distinctive realism and magic, which is much deeper than those sensational scenes. What impressed me the most was the 1924 silent film "Shrinking Lover", which was also the climax of the film, where Baleno's sexuality with a comatose Alicia was completely poetic and metaphorical. The black and white silent film has a very striking close-up of female genitalia (although it is fake), but it does not evoke pornography or ambiguity. Come on.
Baleno should think so too, he just wants to make himself completely belong to Alicia. As for the other party's wishes, as for rape, he doesn't care at all.
In the end, Alicia, who was diagnosed with cerebral necrosis, miraculously awoke due to childbirth, while Baleno was told by her lawyer that the child was dead and Alicia was still in a coma and committed suicide by taking medicine. He has no nostalgia for this world, all he wants to go to is Alicia's world. Marco lived in Baleno's house, and every day, when he opened the curtains, he could see Alicia practicing dancing. Their last glance at each other and a smile apparently connected the entire movie end to end, forming a doomed circle.
Very quiet movie, very clean picture, although it is an almost magical story, it seems that only Europeans have the ability to speak so artistically, I can't imagine what Hollywood would make of those sensitive plots, but ambiguous and erotic It is obviously impossible to get rid of, and these two points, in "Talk to her", do not exist at all.
For such a film, we must be patient and believe in Almodóvar's extraordinary directing ability. The beginning of the film seems to be fragmented, but slowly, all the clues are unknowingly connected, and the parts that you don't understand are solved, and then you suddenly sigh.
Also, I can't help but mention the song "Cucurrucucu Paloma", in the movie, it's melodious and tactful, it's just outrageous, I paused here and replayed it twice, every time I heard goosebumps, heart-warming Shaking, those curling notes seem to drill into the brain from the ears, into the blood vessels, flow all over the body, and finally pierce the heart.
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