wounds cut by memory

Heath 2022-03-22 09:03:00

Turn off all the lights at night, plug in the headphones, and start enjoying the movie alone in the dark. Typical Almodova film. Luz Casal's soulful deep voice renditions of "Piensa en mi" was repeated many times. I couldn't help but be moved several times by emotions.

As the daughter of the most popular singer, Bereja grew up under the aura of her mother. Exquisite makeup, slender high-heeled shoes, in the heart of young Berega, unconsciously evolved into the most profound admiration in the first memory.
In order to support her mother to go to Mexico to make a movie, and to stay with her mother, the young Bereja closed the door with her parents' quarrel and swapped the two bottles of medicine. The stepfather who prevented his mother from losing his job in every possible way drank sleeping pills by mistake. car accident. die.
But the mother slipped and did not bring her daughter. After more than ten years of absence, when we meet again, Bereja is 27 years old and married.

For so many years, her mother's dazzling aura has affected Bereja's life. Desperately imitating and chasing, but has a height that he can never surpass and indifference that is difficult to approach.

The only time. Bereja chose to marry the man she had been with her mother. But there is no real love. After You Qi's mother came back, she rekindled her love with her husband. Bereja was hurt by jealousy and powerlessness and shot her husband to death. and confess the crime.

Man with multiple complex identities bails Bereja. This man will be the father of the child in Berega's womb.

Mother collapsed during a performance and was terminally ill.
Before the mother died, she took the crime for her daughter and left her fingerprints on the robbery.
"What if I lied, I'm her mother, and I'm responsible for her." She needed to breathe with an oxygen mask.


In the ward, the mother and daughter talked for a long time, recalling the collision between each other's extremely painful love and hate. They hurt each other, trying to find a redemption gap in each other.
They are mother and daughter, sisters, and lovers.
Affection is the flow of the same blood. It is thicker than running water, and like water, it is endlessly circulating in the body.

In the end, the mother listened to her children's sad memories and eloquence, and stopped the last moment of her life.
Bereja was lying on her mother's body wrapped in a white quilt. The sun shone down, and the sadness that filled the entire ward couldn't be dissolved no matter how dense it was.

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Extended Reading
  • Lon 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    Every time I watch Almodovar's movies, I think he's a genius and a pervert, of course, the kind of pervert I like.

  • Gaston 2022-03-18 09:01:10

    2020.5.19 Does mother-daughter love have to be expressed in such a complicated and weird way... There are endless sighs and sadness. (Feliz cumpleaños señor D.

High Heels quotes

  • Becky del Páramo: My daughter, Do you hate me?

    Rebeca: No , I love you very much mother.

    Becky del Páramo: I was afraid you hated me.

    Rebeca: I hated you sometimes, but even on those times I never stop loving you.

  • Becky del Páramo: [during Interrogation] You don't kill a daughter's husband two days before your theatrical debut!