What a value!

Shannon 2022-03-24 09:02:56

For sure, except for those vulgar and boring plot segments, the film itself is very good,
but I really can't understand the values ​​conveyed by the film. Are they not wrong in themselves? Why are the hero and heroine described so 'pathetic and sympathetic'? And they haven't experienced any real twists and turns, just blindly evading this irresponsible value in a willful and naive way. [Tears and touching] I really feel very puzzling!

And the original lovers and wives of both men and women were able to forgive everything they did----really, if the director of this film was not Almodovar, I might really think it was a copy of the gods descending to earth

. sensational!

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Extended Reading

Broken Embraces quotes

  • [first lines]

    [in Spanish, quoting English subtitles]

    Modelo: What's your name?

    Mateo Blanco: Harry Caine.

    [voiceover]

    Mateo Blanco: I used to be called Mateo and I was a film director. I was always tempted by the idea of being someone else, as well as myself. Living one's life wasn't enough, so I invented a pseudonym, Harry Caine, an adventurer who, as fate would have it, became a writer. I had him sign all the scripts and stories I wrote. For years, Mateo Blanco and Harry Caine shared the same body, mine. But a moment came when suddenly I could only be Harry Caine. I became my pseudonym. A self-made writer made by himself. There was just one unforseen detail. Harry Caine would be a blind writer.

  • [last lines]

    [in Spanish, quoting English subtitles]

    Ray X: That's what we've got re-edited.

    Mateo Blanco: Do you think it's worth carrying on, or is it crazy?

    Diego: What? I pissed myself laughing. I'm dying to see what happens.

    Judit García: It's wonderful, Mateo!

    Diego: It's hilarious. You have to re-release it.

    Mateo Blanco: No, what matters is to finish it. Films have to be finished, even if you do it blindly.