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
  • Fredy 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    It's not quite as shocking as the previous ones.

  • Nola 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    It's been a long time since I watched the disc, and this one is two years old. I'm so sorry for Almodovar. In addition to color and narrative structure, the photography and characters are much less stylized than some of his best works.

Broken Embraces quotes

  • Diego: When you were waiting at the roundabout, for a car to pass on your left, Lena and you kissed.

    Mateo Blanco: We kissed? I don't remember that.

    Diego: It's a normal kiss, the kind couples give each other out of habit.

    Mateo Blanco: The last kiss.

    Diego: Yes. Lena didn't die in your arms, like you'd dreamed, but the last sensation she took from this world was your mouth.

  • [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.