In fact, after Alyssa got into a vegetative state in a car accident, all his words were just speaking to her.
Familiar Almodovar taste. All his films seem to be traceable. The music throughout, the simple and direct shots, the interspersed plots, and even the actors' performances are all the same. Forbearance, emotional, but overwhelmed.
Mark is just that kind of guy so he'll be in tears in the drama. And in the intensive care unit, when he saw Benigno, he thought he didn't understand love. It takes four years to take care of a person who doesn't know if he will open his eyes, and he won't get anything in return. Maybe she didn't know him at all.
Benigno said she knew me, she had been with me for four years. Every day we are together. She understood every word I said.
Before that, he had been caring for his mother for twenty years until she died. He was reticent, unsociable, and had no friends. Until he met Alyssa, he paid attention to everything about her, followed her, and went to see a doctor at her father's clinic. She was like a ray of light, passing through the world before Benigno, making him follow him until his death.
I think Benigno probably didn't think about whether Alyssa would wake up, he just wanted it. With her, watching her. Day by day, dressed her in beautiful clothes, put on a sun hat, carried her to the chair on the balcony, read the newspaper to her, told her all the things in his eyes. She was already an inseparable part of his body. They grew up together and died together. That's why he left a mark on Alyssa's body. He just didn't want to leave her.
In the end, Alicia miraculously woke up. Benigno committed suicide in prison. The three words Benigno seem to have become a taboo. No one mentioned it to Alyssa. Alyssa is still young and beautiful, she still goes to the dance studio, she still smiles shyly. In four years, nothing seems to have changed. Except Benigno.
Benigno has always been a child and stopped growing before he met Alyssa. Naive, silent, stubborn child. He thought that if he loved her, he could love her. Nothing else.
Love is always a personal thing.
Benigno left the house to Mark. He didn't move anything inside. The room is full of pictures of Alyssa. Mark quietly looked out the window at Eliza, who was sitting quietly in the dance studio. As if it were still four years ago, Benigno stood here on every sunny day, in the same position, in the same posture. See every expression of Alyssa.
Is our love the same? Forget about yourself in the shadows, and follow a shadow back and forth.
But, if not so, how lonely our life will be.
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