I forgot when I started liking his works, it should be before "My Mother", watching "The Fragrance of the Body", "High Heels", etc., and then collecting all his works, and now as long as there are his works will see.
It should be said that Almodovar grew up gradually, from chaotic and funny in the early stage to gradual thinking in the middle stage, to quiet and natural after "My Mother", each film has its own characteristics. But I think his biggest achievement is getting more and more neat and clean in the overall style, and also getting more and more rigorous in the arrangement of the story. The early works were noisy, very like graffiti, and the colors were splendid with personal characteristics. In the mid-term, large blocks of color were used, like Van Gogh's oil paintings, which were strong and passionate; after "My Mother", the colors were reduced, but restrained and deep, more infectious. So someone told him that he was red in the early stage and white in the later stage, and "My Mother" was a watershed, and the evaluation was indeed very accurate.
In this film, it still belongs to the white style, with few characters and a large number of indoor dramas. The requirements for the laying of the story and the performance of the characters are very high, but they are all achieved. The beginning is full of suspense. When one person enters the house, the camera will reveal the other person, just like in "Fang Fang", but why? Immediately afterwards, a thug entered his house, an accident occurred, and the story began to be told separately, one was told by Banderas, and the other was told by a girl who was transformed into Vera. It was like a zipper. After opening it up, and then combining the different talks, it is combined with the opening chapter. Such a question pops up. What should I do? The boy who was originally used for revenge and experiment became more and more like his deceased wife in the transformation. He has fallen in love with her little by little. People who fall in love are very stupid and ignore the dissuasion of their mother (don't know that It was his mother), and ended up dying at the head of the bed, and Vera finally returned to herself after another hardship. She didn't forget "who I am" for so much time. She went home and met her mother and friends. It's a sunny ending, but the psychology is still really regretful and sad.
What is all this for? Pain because of love, and want revenge because of pain. At the beginning, I calmly performed gender reassignment surgery on Vincent. After being transformed into the face of the deceased wife, there was tenderness in my eyes, and I fell into it a little bit. . As for Vincent, he didn't expect this from the beginning. He was just a young man who was dissatisfied with the status quo. He took medicine and thought he had an affair, but he didn't expect an accident. He fled in fright, but his heart was still full of guilt and fear. , but in essence, he's not a bad guy, just in time when Nona fainted, he was so scared that he wanted to run away by tidying up Nona's clothes before running away, whoever did this was definitely not a bad boy, it was just that things got out of control , just scared. I was treated like Banderas, tried to escape, tried to resist, but gradually matured in meditation, reading, thinking, calmed down, began to examine myself, began to record what happened to me, don't forget everything, don't forget Who I am, toughness and perseverance, so in the end he was able to escape.
The biggest credit for telling a story like this is the director and screenwriter, but it's up to the actors to express these things. Banderas was a handsome young man 20 years ago, playing a wild young man. Now he is mature and restrained. He is a mature man with a mature career. He expresses his inner pain, struggle, sinking, and unmoved expression. This is what life gives, and it is the quality of a good actor. The heroine, from the fear at the beginning to the calmness at the back, sees the shock and calmness expressed by her previous photos, which shows a transformation of a person. It can be said that the performance of the characters in it is very good, including Banderas. She is her mother's housekeeper, so calmly and sadly told the whole background and her own story, only after going through the hardships of life and seeing the world through, and seeing the problem very early, repeatedly asked Banderas to kill her (Vera), but... I had to say at the end, before I died: I knew....
What can I do if I knew, many times we can't change even if we see the ending, this is life, this is life. is destiny.
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