I've watched more than 20 Almodovar movies. My first Almodovar was "Tie Me, Tie Me". I hadn't heard of Almodovar at the time. After watching it, I didn't think it looked as good as I imagined. The play within the play is almost completely ignored. At that time, I felt that there was a blunt twist in the plot, and the life of the characters in the movie was completely unfamiliar. For example, the male protagonist was in a mental hospital for a long time, and the female protagonist was addicted. The second Almodovar is "All About My Mother". Much of the film is still "heterogeneous", and I'm still impatient with the "superfluous" parts of the film, and the parts that make me uncomfortable, but I love it. Starting from this movie, I watched "The Skin of My Home", "Love in High Heels" and other films one after another, and Almodovar became a bloody and dramatic endorsement in my eyes. The plots of his films are always very tortuous, the relationships between characters are complex, and many magical things happen again and again. A man can become a woman, and his daughter can marry her mother's ex-boyfriend. I really don't know what the director thinks every day. However, these magical stories were all held by the director. It now appears that a sincere director like Almodóvar might have a sense of conviction in the stories he directed, and in his view, they are all real. To a certain extent, this is true. The lover who ran to the other side of the world to get rid of drugs, the mother who always wanted to run back to the countryside, and the boy who was bullied in the mission school and still lived colorfully, are indeed in "Pain and Glory". They are some kind of shadow of real life. Almodóvar's films come from passionate Spain, they're colorful, with a lot of characters that are quite fringe, and he breaks the line between normal life and fringe life. In the early films of Almodóvar, the strange, passionate characters were already there, but the stories in the early films were very loose. A typical Almodovar movie, which describes a strange story, the structure of the story is quite classical, maintaining a certain consistency of characters, plot and location, almost no plot is superfluous, every plot will be in the film reverberate. For example, the daughter in "Love in High Heels", after years of going around in circles, finally obtained the redemption from her mother. This scene echoes the little girl's loss in the crowd at the beginning of the film, which is a metaphor for the heroine's entire life. What I like the most is that the male protagonist in "The Skin of My Residence" becomes the "female protagonist", and finally relied on a piece of clothing to recognize his long-lost relatives. This scene just echoes the scene before his disappearance. It may not be such a coincidence, but they are holding hands and looking at each other, it is almost like the scene of Odysseus and his wife in "The Odyssey". these arts The thought of arrangement may be the reason why Almodovar's blood is reasonable. At this point, Almodovar became a high-level dog-blood artist for me. In his films, everything is carefully arranged, especially the colors in the film, so this kind of dog blood is more advanced than ordinary blood. It wasn't until last year that I finally watched Bad Education. Compared with those cheerful dog-blood movies, the background of "Bad Education" is very sad. The passion of the protagonist is still an important theme in the film, but the director did not hesitate to lead the fate of the protagonist to tragedy. It was only here that I noticed that in his films, vitality and death actually coexist. He praised those characters who were full of vitality, but he would not escape death and sadness. Behind the clamor, life and death are still the most basic issues. To me, Almodovar is not a director who fell in love at once. Our personalities are so different. He is like a friend who gradually got to know each other and gradually fell in love with each other in ordinary life. When it comes to "The Law of Desire", he is already a friend of mine, even a relative. Watching his movies always makes me have a lot of feelings. I always watch these movies with reluctance in a quiet environment. A little bit reluctant. "Tell Her" and "All About My Mother" are probably the best Almodóvar, but the characters in the other films are my friends too, because they're all from one world. As we all know, Almodovar's movies are actually a world, and the world of movies is also Almodovar's world. Movies refer to old movies that the director likes, and the same type of characters always appear over and over again. There was a director who had an older brother who was turned into a woman by his father, who had a first love at a religious school. There was a man who had a lover. In order to help him get rid of drugs, he took care of him in every possible way. In the end, that person went to the other side of the world to get rid of drugs. A woman is desperate to find her missing lover, and she runs around to save him from the plane crash. Sometimes she chooses to let go, and sometimes the plane crash is avoided, but she still doesn't get her lover back. There is always that insane man who is desperate for the lover he thinks he has chosen. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes they die together, he is finally moved, and sometimes the story just doesn't follow. Many types of characters show their clues in "Pain and Glory", and this film also expresses my joy and joy when I watch Almodovar. Beginning with the joy of those magical stories, then with the devastating sadness of human passion, and finally back to the pure joy of cinema, the joy of finding acquaintances in an artistic whole, the joy of seeing so many different worlds , the director's grasp of color, his sincere personality, also let me hapiness. Who would hate the director played by Banderas in this film? He lives in a colorfully painted home, exactly like in Almodovar's movie. He is devastated by aging and pain, and is burdened by memory, but he is lifted up by the visit of his first love, and he successfully detoxifies. Who would hate this little cutie? Of course, Almodovar is no longer the Almodovar of the past. Although it belongs to the same movie universe, similar characters, and the same theme have changed into rich variations, Almodovar has become more somber. But the sincere praise for women and life remains the same. There are very few directors like him who, in one film, talk about maternal love, the vitality of women, women's sacrifice, tenacity, suffering, and yet it doesn't feel preachy. The character who is also crazy about love is a comedy in "The Bundle", but it becomes a tragedy in "The Law of Desire". In "Julietta", it is also the man who disturbs the life of the woman, but the women save each other. The daughter once saved the mother, and the mother finally went to the daughter who lost her beloved son. Few directors are like Almodovar. After a woman disposes of her husband's body, she inadvertently starts a career, and she can't be more positive. Does watching Almodovar's films also make you think about those people who live on tenaciously and think about the mysteries of life?
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