The plot of the movie is full of repetitions between the two generations, which may mean a return: Ramonda (Penelope Cruz) was raped by her father when she was a child, and then her daughter Paula was almost raped by her stepfather, and Paula killed her stepfather. Death and Aileen's burning of her husband, women grow up through different roles in the same tragedy, such as mother Aileen's evasion in the face of this problem and daughter Mengruida's bravery in dealing with a series of problems in order to protect her daughter . The male characters disappear early in the film, leaving only six women to face the tragedy. If you think about it carefully, nine out of ten movies that we have watched are all about love or being attached to men. This confirms Zhang Ailing’s words. I can’t remember the original words. It means that women don’t do anything. Everything she thinks is because of men, even if she doesn't care, it's because of men. But at this time, I think some of the pure love movies that I loved in the past are suspected of nonsense. These movies are originally works of men who feel good about themselves. Officially, Almodovar's film is called the awakening of female consciousness, but I think "Return" should be more mature than "To Her". The movie is full of surreal plots, such as a person who lives in a house without being discovered for more than ten years, and no one traces the murdered men. These surreal things do not make the audience feel grotesque or incredible. The real-world problems revealed by "The Return" are heart-wrenching.
It's a movie about six women, all different but equally tough and kind, but I'll mention Raimonda alone here, played by my lately obsessive Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, in the film's Of the six women, Penelope Cruz stands out from the crowd. She's too beautiful, too beautiful. How could one think such a tragedy could happen to such a woman, how could one think that such a thing could happen. Tragedy she was so strong and brave to solve it. See how Raymonda is the most physically demanding laundry worker, how she puts her husband's body in the refrigerator and finally pulls it to the suburbs for burial, and how she buys a large amount of food to cook for thirty people in half a day when she runs a restaurant , everything needed a man's physical strength, but she did it with a woman's courage. The director even set up such a plot in order to fill this perfect female image: Raymonda chose to bury her husband's body in his favorite place in front of him, and simply carved a tombstone for him. Although the husband tried to rape his daughter before his death, even though he was a perennial drinker, everything was showing Raymonda's love, maybe it had nothing to do with love, but this woman's mind.
Finally, I finally got out of Penelope Cruz's abrupt beauty or because of that song "Return", when Monreda sang "Return" with a simple accompaniment, her daughter heard it, her mother heard it, these three generations Finally connected, it is very touching and sighing. The lyrics of "Return" are this:
I fantasize that the lights that flicker in the distance lead me back to
their still light with pale reflections and deep pain times
Even though I don't want to return, you always return to
the peace of your first love The streets echoed that
you were her life You were her love
Under the taunting indifference and indifference of the starlight
Look me back today
with a faded face
The snow of time has whitened my temple
feeling... life Like the wind for 20 years, it looks like nothingness
and fever, wandering under the shadows
looking for you and calling you
The living soul clings to the sweet memories
I'm crying again I'm afraid to meet the past
that comes back to make me face life's past
I'm afraid of the night that is full of memories and shackles my dreams
But the escaping traveler will stop sooner or later Going forward
Although forgetting wipes out all the old dreams that killed me
I continue to hide a humble wish That is all the wealth in my heart The
soul
holds the sweet memories
I cry again
The song says a wanderer, the years are over , but at the end of the movie, the three generations really came together again, and it was a painful return. That's what good characters look like. I believe Penelope Cruz looks like Raymonda. Penelope Cruz's acting and beauty complement each other in "The Return".
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