Overall Feeling: Conflict, Drama, Story, Metaphor, Red, Passion, Vitality, Ideal Ending
sex
The film begins with the birth of the male protagonist on the bus and ends with the birth of the male protagonist and child on a car. Life and hope are passed on through sex and love, and the cycle begins and ends. So, this movie is about sex first and foremost.
"Sex" has two sides. On the one hand, it is gushing desire, it is instinct, it is temptation, and it is mixed with lies, greed, control and betrayal, shackles and bonds, enslaved by sex, driven by sex, no Self-conscious love or opinionated love, that would be a painful, sad relationship. On the other hand, sex is also the vitality, the driving force of the entire human being, society, country, and city. Only this vigorous force can give people new life and hope.
Love
Sex is one of the driving forces of love, but it is by no means the whole of love.
The sex work of Victor's mother (Tools and Capital) is for love, and sex is the tool that produces love, bringing about the original accumulation of love.
Victor and Clara (exploration and awakening), although there is love in it, the process is more of learning, practice, important but not pure, Clara is more like a mother role, she taught How a young young man uses sex as a tool to find love. Although she did not teach Victor what love is, in the process, she completed her own awakening, found what she needed, found strength, and worked hard for it. Although she paid a price, she achieved true love and freedom.
David and Elena (Guilty and Punishment), their love is a kind of worship, a fantasy, a fantasy of a hero saving beauty, an obsession with a beautiful face, a remedy for their own mistakes, and a loss for themselves Partial pulling and torture. There is love, but it is incomplete and incomplete.
Sancho and Clara (Submission and Control), their love is a deformed and perverted emotion, full of morbid, selfish, hopeless desires. One cannot change, the other is powerless to escape, and they are trapped in this unhealthy relationship until they die.
Teenage Victor and Elena (fanatical and casual), one driven by beauty and sex, the other a bewildered orgy, are abusing their youth, blindfolded in search of love and excitement, but it seems Not a good direction.
David and Clara (forbidden and smug), their affair is a forbidden, voyeur-like snickerdoodle. Due to deceit and betrayal, David was both angry and indebted to Sancho. This complex emotion affected his judgment and behavior. In the end, he suffered the consequences and was punished.
At first, I thought that these were not love, but then I thought that these were all love, but not all of love. Love is a complex thing, and there are many complex emotions in it, precisely because we can’t tell what is in it. , so it's worth exploring. Only human beings can associate sex with love, and perhaps it is this intersection of sex that creates a unique side of human beings. The love that leaves us incomprehensible is so fascinating, it leads to crime, it leads to confusion, it leads to constant exploration and reflection.
Politics and Cities
It is also a film about Spain, Madrid, freedom and openness, showing the development of a city through the story of sex. From authoritarian, empty streets to democratic, bustling and noisy streets, the film fully reflects this process. I don't know if the world has gotten better or worse so far? At least it is still exploring, even in reincarnation, we try to live a happier life, I don’t know if we can achieve it, at least we are exploring. So in this film, I saw Almodovar's hope and vision for urban development in his prime. After 2000, he seems to have become more pessimistic and more profound.
The development of the city and the change of politics, the metaphorical expression in the film, is the end of the bad relationship, the growth and development of the protagonist, and the redemption and return. After being tempered by incompleteness and loneliness, they finally achieved positive results. Two independent, healthy and complete people finally came together. They had a fairy tale ending, but what happened later? There is no later, let us stay in the happiness of the moment, the short-term happiness, the eternal happiness.
redemption and return
In the red background of the film, we will see the hope and enthusiasm, bloody violence, and new death represented by red. In the heavy taste of red, in the changes of several relationships, the film is completed, the redemption and return of a country, a city, and a person.
Everyone has gone through their own path of redemption and growth. Sancho went from brutality to suicide, Clara from cowardice to strength, and David from paranoia to letting go. Elena and Victor also experienced redemption and growth before finally coming together.
In his youth, Elena was promiscuous and drug addicts, and she lived in a mess. In her youth, Victor came with the halo of the city light. When he was in his twenties, he was wrapped in desire and began to steal. Interestingly, Victor completed redemption and growth in prison, a place considered evil and full of criminals, he learned skills, read books, exercised, explored beliefs, in this so-called dirtiest place. A place that truly shines the light of the city. And Elena is also redeeming herself with her own actions. She takes care of David with all her heart, runs a children's charity organization, and will never tell lies. Until they met because of the truth and because of sex, two people who have experienced growth and tempering, two people who are so similar, finally saw each other again, finally met and fell in love and brought new hope together.
It's a story about learning to love and finding love, it's a story about a city's evolution from tyranny to freedom, it's a story about personal growth and redemption, and they're smothered in sex and dog blood The coat grows recklessly.
Finally, I would like to share about the paperclip position, its metaphor, which is a kind of equality, no one goes up and down, it is a kind of blending and fitting, mutual service and care. It is also a kind of reincarnation, which breeds life and brings death, but it will be endless, so it is so beautiful, so desirable, and the change and eternity that that moment can bring is incalculable, no matter what it is is reality, or fantasy.
This film is also a bit like Kubrick's "Path of Glory", which is the director's somewhat idealistic hopes and beliefs, and is the seed of fire. This kind of fire, growing up, will be challenged and exhausted, but I hope that it will always be preserved and treasured there, becoming a short eternity.
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