This middle-aged man will shed tears while watching the stage play, and this middle-aged man will hide his face and leave when he hears a sad song. Traveling again and again, in the final analysis, is just to calm down the long pain in my heart. His name is Marco.
He saw Lydia on TV and in the bullring, with a dazzling halo, but through her eyes and her face, what he saw was her despair after being hurt by love. Is devotion to an accident a necessary outcome for a desperate woman standing on a bullring in a bloody confrontation?
He was a nurse, named Benino. What an odd man, they said. What a boring life, go to work, go to get off work, watch a stage play, watch a movie, walk alone. Facing the window of the ballet school, she secretly fell in love with Arisia, a beautiful girl who studies ballet. And before his love could be expressed, Alicia became a vegetative person in a car accident. He took care of every inch of her body meticulously, and began to tell her the little things in life. They ask, are you lonely? He said that in the four years of caring for Arisia, I was the most fulfilling.
The film is interspersed with a seven-minute silent film - "Shrunk Lover" is shocking to watch. Nothing to do with porn. This plot lays the most important clues for the subsequent development of the story. That was Benigno's shocking rescue of Arisia. A birth and a death are sometimes equal.
Marco had nothing to do with Lydia, who had become a vegetative state, except to silently accompany her. Until in the end she found out that she was not the one for whom Lydia was crying. Had to start a trip again. And Benino's self-talking and chatting to Aricia was so warm it made me suffocate in silence. The nurse asked: The weather is hot, do you want to cut her hair short? He said: No, or she would wake up not recognizing herself. As if she was only sleeping for a while.
Benino said to Marco: Talk to her, even if she can't answer. Love is really a kind of unspeakable, unresponsive loneliness. Can you hear my whispers, my cries and cries, what I think and see and feel? Will you respond? Or let me speak so eternally and unknown, whether you can hear it, see it, feel it? A trip, a hangover, and an obsessive wait cannot truly fulfill the so-called love. Those beautiful hopes and courage can only disappear in the quiet undercurrent day after day.
The women on the stage drifted, mourned, struggled, evaded, suffered, and finally fell. Caetano Veloso sat in the middle of the crowd, strumming his Spanish guitar and singing "Cucurrucucu Paloma", some smiling, others teary-eyed. The interspersed music and dance dramas that seem to have nothing to do with the plot really make this movie perfect to the extreme.
Director Almodovar said: "Talk to her" is the story of two men, loneliness, and a long recovery from emotional trauma. In the end, Arisia's awakening and Lydia's death can be understood as the two results of Almodóvar's lack of communication and rich hints.
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