[Supplements and Memories] "Life and Fragrance" and Almodovar

Eugenia 2022-03-22 09:02:51

Starting with the sale of spring and ending with the new life, the three men's different life trajectories are strung together, and they talk about the development of sex and human beings. It is more vivid when combined with the social outlook of Spain. Later, a more grand topic of Hable con ella is derived. It can be said that it is a work that connects the past and the future.

1970, Christmas Eve. The prostitute Isabelle (Penélope Cruz) is about to give birth. In desperation, the old woman sacrifices her life to stop the car. As a result, she gave birth to a son in the car, named Victor. Seeing this, we may think that Victor will have a different life, such as trying to climb to the upper class to wash away his mother's professional reputation, but he didn't... The movie is cruel like reality. You are born in the mud, you will only sink deeper and deeper, and you have no strength to climb up.

20 years later, Victor fell in love with Elena, the girl he had an affair with, but the date was put on doves. An angry Victor came to visit and was shot at by the drug addict Elena. When the two were at a standoff, police officers Sancho and David (Javier Bardem) happened to pass by. Before the picture, Sancho, who was driving while drunk, was talking to his colleagues about his wife's affair. During the confrontation, David was shot by Victor and paralyzed his lower limbs, and the latter was imprisoned. Six years later, Victor, who had finished his prison term, saw on TV the disabled athlete David, who represented Spain in the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona and won a basketball gold medal. Victor wanted to seek revenge from David, but he became a colleague with David's wife. The revenge failed and he fell on the woman who was one of the culprits. ?)... He fell in love with Elena again (do you have a clearer mind!!! I thought he would kill two men in high spirits, but the group of cowards... Maybe he will be complacent. This is a very magical movie. The interesting story can be described as "dirty and messy" in three words. The protagonists in the story even look a little dirty. Maybe the story stinks, but " The movie picture of "Living Fragrant" still perfectly overshadows its ugly nature. After all, "love" is really something extravagant.

● The love, hatred and hatred of five men and women are entangled with each other, which is a classic tragic story. The excellent scene scheduling makes the film full of action, and once fooled him into thinking that there was a mother-son relationship (Clara felt a little old Cruz) The paragraph on the poster is beautiful

And director Almodovar is also different from other directors. The scissors are a mudslide. If Almodovar had to be given an adjective, it would be absurd. The protagonists of his films have never been normal. They are homosexuals, transvestites, incests, drug offenders, molesters, masochists, etc. These figures, who are separated from the fringes of society, have become the sojourn of his thoughts. In his mocking and joking film language, he tells the unremarkable but thought-provoking farces, pointing to the real and deep sense of morbid life. Some corners of the bottom and the edge of every society seem to be able to find similarities in this film, but the role of the director is to make the ugly and dirty into beautiful and convey it to the audience. In "Fragrant Living", Clara and her husband Sancho both committed suicide. Both of them chose this path out of love, but the objects of their love were different. "What are we going to do? Shoot each other?" said Sancho. "Do you have any other way?" Clara asked back, as she loaded her pistol. When Victor broke in, he saw Clara's body lying on the ground, dead, and not far away, Sancho was covered in blood and crawled to Clara with difficulty, as if speaking to Vic Listening more, it seems to be talking to himself: "This, this is my life: crawling humbly, in order to keep getting close to you." To be honest, the hero and heroine who look at the story with a popular eye are scumbags and scumbags. , The scumbag wasn't originally a scumbag who was designed to become a scum after being imprisoned, while the heroine was a bitch to die. When others were imprisoned because of her, she didn't extend her hand. When people come out to collect debts... they start a life of cheating without shame. After all, sex is much easier than other costs~ The relationship between these people is a mess, and they have their own mothers who cheat and have true love. In addition to the male protagonist, the husbands of the other two girls who were picked up by the male protagonist are also really miserable.

It's certainly still fun to watch without your head, but if you can't empathize with it, it will only add to the boredom and disgust of their disgusting love affair.

★Victor's nature is kind, and his love for Elena in his heart easily dissolves his unwillingness and hatred for David.
●This film is a film based on the life of people at the bottom of the society, with love, sex, and social love as the storyline, revealing and reflecting Spain in that specific historical period, that is, the Franco dictatorship is about to end, Spain is going A film about the living conditions of the Spanish people and the whole society in the transition period of peaceful democracy.

●Finally, share the video in which Victor stood in front of his mother's tombstone and muttered to himself--Mother's last words: There is only a dilapidated house, if it has not been demolished, and a little deposit in the bank, if it is not a negative number , it's all given to you, don't blame yourself, and don't... Victor is counting the money at the grave: hello, mom, I got out of prison two days ago, and I've been cleaning the house, what a mess! I went to the bank, and the inheritance you gave me was 150,000 pesetas. On the way here, I kept calculating, how many customers would you have to pick up to save 150,000 pesetas, at least 1,000... tears run fast! ! !

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  • Gerhard 2022-02-07 14:51:51

    Almodovar's movies are really entertaining, no matter how the plot turns, they can keep people watching. This one is not very bloody, and it is not as erotic as the legend (that is, the poster shot!), but the mood is good, and it is dramatic enough without being too crazy. But why does it feel like a straight male cancer... In fact, if the final ending is removed, this story even has the taste of an episode in the Ten Commandments

  • Nyasia 2022-03-22 09:02:51

    It starts with having a baby and ends with having a baby. Spain is not the original Spain, and Victor has matured. What is yours is yours after all, it is useless to force what is not yours. The relationship between the characters is chaotic and clear, and the picture is bright and bright. The bed scene on the poster is beautiful, a big circle of reincarnation, and finally a good ending

Live Flesh quotes

  • Víctor Plaza: How was I?

    Clara: I didn't even notice.

    Víctor Plaza: I don't have much experience. Why don't you teach me?

    Clara: You can't teach that.

    Víctor Plaza: You can teach anything. And I learn fast. Real fast. I want to become the best lover in the world. Tell me things you like to do. What you think about when you masturbate. I"ve got time to learn.

    Clara: You treated me like a hole.

    Víctor Plaza: What a putdown!

    Clara: First of all, don't dive at my pussy so fast.

    Víctor Plaza: I mustn't dive at it.

    Clara: Not to eat it.

    Víctor Plaza: Not to eat it.

    Clara: Or stick it in.

    Víctor Plaza: Or stick it in.

    Clara: You have to prepare it first. It'll tell you when it's ready.

    Víctor Plaza: How will it tell me?

    Clara: You'll notice. That's the first lesson. Making love involves two people.

  • Elena Benedetti: This is a shelter for children who have suffered enough. I don't want our problems to affect them.

    Víctor Plaza: Yeah. "You will be damned in the town and in the country. Damned will be the fruit of your body, the producer of your soil. You will be damned coming in and going out." Deuteronomy, Chapter 28. Moses was thinking of me when he wrote it.