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Nels 2022-03-23 09:01:57

Benigno (Javier Kamara)

Benigno's life has always been spent on the bedside. At any given time, there is always a woman in bed. First his mother, then Alicia. His mother moved into bed before she fell ill (and hasn't left since), her way of celebrating her forties. Her husband had just left her at this time, and that morning, the eternal beauty of her in the mirror had begun to show the ephemeral nature of this beauty. It all happened at the same moment. Without the help of her son Benigno (who never understood his ugliness), she might have been neglected and died tragically.
Benigno nursed her day and night, and even learned to take care of her in order to take better care of her. He only leaves home when he is in class. He also studied beauty and hairdressing through correspondence courses. He didn't want his mother's beauty to go away, he wanted to see her beautiful forever.
He led her around the house. He bathed her and dressed her as if she were his queen. Every time he finished all this, he would look at her quietly. But just a short stroll in the living room isn't keeping her heart healthy. Despite his care, his mother died 20 years later.
Just before she left, she asked her son (25-year-old Benigno didn't know anyone at the time): "Benino, what will you do when I die?" "I think I'm going to kill myself", He answered naturally. His life would be meaningless without his mother.
After a flattered silence, his mother made the decision for him:
"Benino, you have to live. When you no longer need to take care of me, you have to take care of yourself. You have to go out into the street and look out the window. Go, travel. Outside you'll find a scary world, but you'll also find things that interest you, and you'll find things you need and aspire to."
Benigno opened his little eyes to him The mother's words were full of surprise. He went to the window and pulled back the 20-year outdated curtains that looked fashionable. His eyes were on the street outside, sweeping across the building opposite. As if fate, he saw the Decadance Ballet Academy on the left opposite his house.
It was on that day that he saw Alicia dance for the first time, for the first time to see her white skin fluttering to the silent music, staring at her face, her long neck, her shoulders, Her chiseled bosom supported by a Lycra top. Everything is so youthful. Everything is what Benino wants. He had to admire his mother's correctness.

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Extended Reading
  • Kaia 2022-03-27 09:01:07

    The director's artistry is astounding, philosophical in everything from the score to the relationships to the most captivating camera cuts. Under the calm and soothing rhythm, when one-sided talk becomes the norm, two men who have encountered the same experience project each other's emotions, from aphasia emotional depression to emotional outpouring, one person falls into a cooling emotional state, and the other evolves into a desire for ideals. Sick behavior. Its poetic shots are addicting, love that silent film

  • Verda 2021-12-11 08:01:28

    The male initiative (participating in person with actual actions or words) and the female passive (a container for receiving information) constitute an opposition to prove that communication is invalid. The speaker is actually in a passive state (and is constantly reminded). This is one of them. ; The second is that the bodies of the two sexes are not equal, which is presented in silent episodes. The huge female body (male perspective) survives and moves like a miracle. The shrinking male uses primitive desire to drive to complete religious sacrifices in order to obtain the protection of the mother. Unnatural foreign objects (speech, drugs) construct (above) gender desires, but also construct resistance strategies: unlike Pina’s escape attempt in "Muller’s Cafe", the statically displayed body is a woman’s attitude towards the outside world. The "negative resistance" of fear and struggle, but both attack the dominant male power-men can only watch from a distance and cannot actually enter (or face death) the female world. However, this direct gender gap is self-regulating Tendency, need to beware.

Talk to Her quotes

  • [last lines]

    Katerina Bilova: Nothing is simple. I'm a ballet mistress, and nothing is simple.

  • Marco Zuluaga: Love is the saddest thing when it goes away, as a song by Jobim goes.