When watching this movie, I felt like I was invited into a museum by Almodovar, where Almodovar's life is hidden, from childhood to old age, as well as the people I have experienced and the fetters of that year. Almodóvar boldly showed his life to the public, and let Penélope Cruz play the tough mother. But brought in Antonio Banderas to play his older self. In my memory, Antonio Banderas is still the handsome Zorro, with long hair fluttering and sharp eyes, and a perfect muscular line. But it has to be said that only Almodovar can reshape the deeply rooted "Zorro". Of course, Antonio has indeed brought this helpless and sick old director to life. Especially when he was depressed, Antonio's eyes showed a deep sense of helplessness towards life, which made people feel pity, and he couldn't help sighing: "Oh, it turns out that this famous director also had this look behind the scenes. "
The elderly Salvador suddenly lost interest in creating and making movies, blaming it all on his own health problems. Two years after her mother died, El Salvador had surgery for back problems. But post-surgery pain still comes and goes from time to time, and headaches often come, along with anxiety and depression. But every time I relax in the pool, all I can think of is the picture of being with my mother when I was a child. This strong mother used to be everything El Salvador could rely on. When she was a child, she could lie on her mother's back and act like a spoiled child, listening to her mother and other women in the village talking about trivial matters about the neighborhood, and when they were happy, everyone would sing by the river. This image has been lingering in El Salvador's mind. When I was a child, my poor mother moved to live with my working father because of the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The night we left the village was New Year's, and all the buses stopped. Little Salvador and his mother slept on the public chairs at the station with the sound of fireworks. Mother is like a tranquilizer to herself. The mother is a typical household and tough woman, and the image of such a mother also appeared many times in Almodóvar's other works. Even if I live in a hole in the ground, my mother has to keep it clean and tidy, repainting the walls, affixing floral tiles and hanging flowers. When the family was short of money, the mother went to other people's homes to do some tinkering and sewing. Little Salvador, who was sitting in the patio reading and writing, often looked up at the patio of the living room. At this moment, he was as safe and warm as in his mother's womb. When I was young, this woman was everything to me. I went to a church school and taught others to read. Even if I wanted to rebel, I depended on my mother. make the most beneficial choice from the resources she has, because she really wants to be better.
In the future work, Salvador has also been as diligent as his mother. When he was young, he wrote like clockwork, made movies, and attended various lectures. In the eyes of others, El Salvador was the kind of person who would work until he was old. The selfless work has brought him great rewards, the flowers and applause of the audience, and the great wealth so that he and his mother can no longer be as embarrassed as they were when they were children. This rhythm of life also led to major problems in his body, and various diseases came to him, so that when he was in pain, he could only pray to God. A life of pain and glory is like a roller coaster ride. He can't wait to move forward all the way. Sometimes he doesn't even have the chance to look back. Many people and things are just missed. But something will stick around for a long time and then one day it will be overwhelming and you will suddenly find that something has to be dealt with, and you have to start making amends for the past.
First of all, starting from his past famous works, it seems that all memories are opened. The first is Alberto, the leading actor in the famous work that year. El Salvador felt that Alberto was taking drugs while acting, so that the character he played was completely different from what he wanted to portray. For this matter, the two have not spoken for 18 years, and Alberto has maintained a relationship with "drugs" since then, but has never photographed any good works.
Alberto wanted to make amends, and even after Salvador told the audience his drug-addicting secret at the re-screening, Alberto chose to forgive. The relationship between two old men is like two underage children. After a "quarrel", the two still chose to reconcile. Perhaps this is the way that older people solve problems. There is no permanent festival, it's just that when you are young, you are too obsessed with yourself.
Salvatore also made up for Alberto's regrets and promised Alberto to put his long-hidden script "Addiction" on the stage. "Addiction" is a entanglement between Salva and his male lover when he was young, and it is also a regret that has not been made up. Salvador cast Alberto as himself, which opened another window. Her boyfriend, whom he hadn't seen in years, found Salvador through Alberto after seeing the stage play. On the phone, El Salvador didn't know how to face his old love. Back then, he wanted to save his lover from "drugs". Ironically, now he has to use "drugs" to get rid of his physical pain - human beings Often in order to solve a problem, create a bigger problem. But at this moment, El Salvador chose to show his good side to his long-lost lover. Instead of opening the box, he packed up and opened the door to greet him. Hearing his lover talk about his experiences after leaving Madrid, it seems that the time is still at the moment when he left, but the lover in front of him is married, has children, and has his own business in Argentina.
Will watch the famous work - "Taste" Alberto seems to be not so bad. His lover did not say goodbye to him completely, and the two would still say goodbye in a familiar way.
The only remaining knot is the mother. I was in tears during those few minutes of talking to my mother on the patio. "Sorry, I didn't become the kid you wanted" Salvador said like a kid who made mistakes. When he was young, he didn't want to go to a mission school, so little Salvador stubbornly ran far away. After she became famous, her mother wanted to move in and live with El Salvador. El Salvador refused for various reasons. In fact, her mother just wanted someone to accompany her. Before her death, her mother wanted El Salvador to take him back to the village to see it again, but it backfired. El Salvador didn't understand his mother until he fell ill. These have become the regrets that El Salvador wants to make up for.
Salvador invited his assistant to live in his mother's room and help take care of his own life. With the encouragement of others, El Salvador began to face his own ailments, quit "addictive substances" and take medicine on time as prescribed by the doctor. When he looked at the ceiling in the clinic, the scenery was like sitting in the living room and looking at the patio when he was a child. There is also the portrait that the mason who made himself "awakened" for the first time, went around and returned to his own hands. Everything is drawn in a perfect circle. Lying on the operating table, Salvador proudly said to the surgeon: "I'm working again, I'm creating again, I'm making movies..."
Almodóvar used the three plays created by El Salvador to metaphorize the three stages of life - "Taste" because you are young and energetic, you will want to taste all the "tastes" in this world, and because you are young, you can do it again and again one offense. You hurt others but don't reconcile because you're stubbornly trying to stand up for yourself. Then in middle age, people are no longer as frivolous as they were when they were young, and there are more and more things to consider. You start to become "addicted" to a certain life, and then somehow you feel stuck in its trajectory, or in an emotion that you can't get out of. But you gradually discover that the current trajectory of your life seems to have had a beginning when you were young. The last script is called "Initial Desire". It is when you have experienced pain, experienced parting with relatives and loved ones, experienced physical and mental pain and glory, and then look back on this life when you are old.
Even after many years, El Salvador still remembers the night he slept with his mother at the station, with fireworks blasting beautiful patterns in the air, accompanied by people's laughter. When I was a child, I slept on a recliner, and my mother slept on the ground. When I go to a strange place, little El Salvador is concerned about whether there is a movie theater there, because other problems in life will be carried for him by someone, and that person is his mother.
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