I watched Almodovar's "Pain and Glory" and "Tell Her" in one breath. The former was moved to tears several times, while the latter exclaimed, "That's great!" "Savage Tales" is also from him, I am really ignorant.
I was talking to a friend that day about why I liked a story. She's obsessed with the characters, and I like the atmosphere. But at the end of the day, it's all about emotions.
I often think that human beings are really magical creatures. Obviously, like all animals, they only come to the world for a short time, but they have developed such a complete society, with various rules, pursuits, and emotions.
Compared with "Tell Her", the emotions in "Pain and Glory" are actually richer. Salvador, who is almost old, looks back on the past, reconciles with the male lead who turned his face, and sees the lover who was in love when he was young, and goes around again. I forwarded the painting sent by the person who was enlightened in my youth. Banderas's acting skills are truly amazing, the excitement, cramps, grievances and guilt of not being recognized in front of his elderly mother when he saw his short-lived lover but remembered half his life. No matter how many trials and hardships you have, people are always vulnerable. Probably, it is also because fragility is valuable, and there is deep emotion. The most moving part is the part of Alberto's solo dance before the performance on stage and Salvador's unconcealed expectation and loss in front of Federico. Ask the sentence "Do you have a partner now?" "A man or a woman?" "How do you understand this sentence?" Like every fool who worries about gains and losses in a relationship. After so many years, as long as he appears, it can still affect the nerves, as long as he is in front of you, no matter how disappointed you are, it is still the love that cannot be concealed. Even, this love is enough to support his determination to quit drug addiction.
In "Tell Her", it is a direct and strong expression of love. Marco's ten years of lovesickness for his ex-girlfriend, he will cry when he sees beautiful and touching things, and is sad because he can no longer share with her. Benigno's unrequited love for many years, there is only Alicia in the whole world. What about Lydia and Marco's relationship? Of course there is love, but it may already be the so-called relationship between adults, with reason more than emotion, and it is no longer so fiery and unreasonable. Therefore, Lydia's tears at the wedding of others thought of the man she angrily refused to mention, and Marco, who was standing by the hospital bed, would rationally think that there was no need to speak to her. So it was some unnatural feeling in Benigno's eyes. The ending was, of course, completely unexpected and surprising. Probably, love is indeed a cold, a high fever. The end is a tragedy, and the end is not necessarily happy. But, to be able to love like that, is always lucky. Losing what you love is a great tragedy, but getting what you love is probably the second biggest tragedy. Of course, no one in the movie really "gets it". Oh, the shrunken lover in the play-in-play is really eye-opening.
In the two dramas, the protagonist is the director and the writer, both of whom are "sensitive" to emotions in the "traditional sense". People who consider themselves to be emotionally rich, but only in the past two years have really begun to understand the complexity of emotions. The wonder of life is probably also that each stage can see different scenery. And all art, its moving point, is always emotion.
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