At the beginning of the film, at midnight, in the dark and gloomy Madrid, Penelope Cruz's prostitute labored to give birth to the hero Victor on a moving bus. 20 years later, Victor worked as a waiter in a bar and met Elena, the only daughter of a diplomat who was addicted to drugs. In the toilet, the hot Elena gave this handsome young man his first experience. , and then Victor fell in love with her completely, but Elena didn't love anything but drugs, and she rejected Victor's confession.
One night, Victor broke into Elena's house without authorization, and the police patrolling the two quarreled, David (Javier Bardem) and Sancho. He was shot, causing lower body paralysis, and Victor was jailed. Four years later Victor's sentence was commuted, and by this time David had become a star player on the Spanish wheelchair basketball team and married Elena. Victor wanted to get revenge on them. He accidentally met Sancho's wife Carla at a funeral and hung out with her. He also learned from her the real reason for his imprisonment. It turned out that Sancho hated David and his wife. Carla has an affair and shoots on purpose and blames Victor. In the end, David, who knew the truth, left Elena, Sancho and Clara ended their painful lives with death, and Victor finally ushered in Elena's love. It was also Madrid at night. In the taxi, Victor accompanied Elena to give birth to their child.
The film can be briefly summarized as the erotic entanglement of three men and two women. The male protagonist, Victor, looks a lot like Ashton Kutcher, with a sturdy figure, sharp edges and corners, and a heroic spirit. The messy long hair when he first appeared on the field set off his pale face, like a tragic hero in the ancient Greek period; after he was imprisoned, the board inch and the left eyebrow that was deliberately scraped from the center gave the overall feeling of a certain football star. He fell in love with the wild Elena at the age of 20 because she took him to experience it for the first time. Boys will fall in love with women who get their first time, not to mention a simple youth like Victor. So even after being ridiculed by Elena for being weak, he chased after her and approached her desperately. The truth that comes out of naked sexuality is truly incredible.
When I saw Victor telling Elena about his original revenge plan on the bench in the kindergarten at night, I realized that this young man who had been misunderstood was really in love with the woman who hated him because of the misunderstanding. His revenge just wanted to do it again with Elena, as a man, to get her affirmation. This revenge can be said to be silly and naive. The 4 years of innocent prison can be forgiven, because he really fell in love with this woman, and this revenge plan was not implemented. On the contrary, he chose to volunteer at the kindergarten run by Elena, friendly and kind His attitude and excellent work ability have won him praise from teachers and children alike, and even Elena has a tendency to be melted by him. The actions of Victor driven by true love are the same as those done by the hero for the heroine in those warm idol dramas, but it is difficult to be recognized in this erotically chaotic film. It was only in the end that I found out that the "best" person in the film was precisely this young man who was born by a prostitute and went to prison for stalking a good woman. He showed Carla his health check (no AIDS), proof of study, proof of no history of drug use, etc. It seems hypocritical and ostentatious, but isn't it a manifestation of his sincerity and kindness? It turned out that he was just a young man with pure nature, strong blood, and a good yearning for love, but the background of prostitute mother, poverty, being framed and imprisoned, etc. made us preconceived, just as the sun always hides behind the shadows, when Ai Lian Na finally found his sunshine and Victor got his love. The other two men, David and Sancho, were good partners for everything, but their friendship broke down due to an affair between David and Sancho's wife, Carla, so that Sancho, a neurotic man, took the guise of Victor. The hand hitting David disabled him for life. At the beginning of the scene, Sancho and David talked about the affair of his wife Carla in the patrol car, implying that he already knew that the other party was David, but David didn't know, so he didn't ask Victor until the end. Learns that it was Sancho who hit him, because Sancho already knew about him and Kara. I have to mention that the wheelchair basketball player played by Javier Bardem is really in place, but the tragedy is too strong. One of the two women is obsessed with him because of his sexuality, but he is only with her because of his sexuality, and eventually rejects her; He concealed his affair with Kara and eventually parted ways. This time, he took the initiative to leave, fulfilling the love of Elena and Victor, a mature man with the beauty of an adult. As for Sancho, a typical neurotic domestic violence male. He was morbidly obsessed with his wife, beat her constantly because of his affair, and kept apologizing and remorse for beating her. What he was most afraid of was that his wife would leave him. Keep Kara by your side like a pet, even if you die, you must die with him. Under the morbid behavior, the love is long gone, but it is still used as an excuse to gnaw and torture the body and mind of the two until the heart is exhausted and can no longer bear it. Death is the only relief.
●Almodovar's films have always been outstanding in the representation of women in the world, but in this film they have emphasized the depiction of men. "The image of a woman is the real basis of the consumer society" (Jean-Luc Godard) in this film, the two women as the best carrier of desire seem to be insufficiently played.
Carla's aging is in stark contrast to her exuberant need for love and sexuality; Elena's disdain for true love and her marriage to her savior out of gratitude are all signs of a woman who is blind and confused. When it comes to sex scenes, Carla has very little to watch, and she acts as a sex mentor for the male lead Victor, making a powerful preparation for Victor and Elena's famous night in the kindergarten lounge. Elena told Victor that, as he had planned, she slept with him for one night, and from then on they would never see each other again. Victor agreed, and the two spent the night together in a romantic and erotic Spanish nocturne. The trembling body, trembling desire, trembling love were sublimated in the hoarse and mysterious female voice, so that before returning home the next day to shower, Elena couldn't help but reminisce about the love and sex that she had left behind on him. Unparalleled experience of the scent of men. The movie's promotional poster also captures a moment of that night, leaving the perfect sex between the male and female protagonists from the body to the soul in the nocturne of Spain and on the paper of the modern society. The three men symbolize the lustful life of an ordinary man. When I was young, I dared to pursue true love, but I seldom "keep the festival" for true love. After all, the enthusiasm of youth requires sex to support. Every man has at least one sex mentor. Whose wife and whose mother is she? The middle-aged has a successful career and a harmonious family, but how to deal with the love and debt left or newly written in his youth is a lifelong problem for a man. Most of the middle-aged or elderly people have developed a family relationship with the person who has spent most of their lives with them. Even if it is family love, maintaining a normal and peaceful relationship requires certain skills, and extremes are never a good way. The theme of the film can also be explored from the correct view of love. A marriage like Elena and David brought about by gratitude may be harmonious for a while but it is unlikely to last forever; a crazy lover like Sancho loses himself and loses his mind. The love of a man can only be called a lunatic, and trying to keep the heart of the loved one is pure fantasy; what should be recommended is the marriage that ultimately connects Victor and Elena with true love, but finding and accepting true love is much easier said than done. The film covers almost all socially sensitive topics, drugs, sex, prostitution, polyamorous love, cheating, domestic violence, neuroticism; but after watching it, you will also find that: in human nature, it seems that there is something, it, beyond gender , beyond family, beyond sex, beyond family, beyond friendship, beyond love...
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