Also a director of social ethics drama, Almodóvar's style is very different from that of Robert Benton. Benton's "The Clems" is well-known. It depicts all kinds of social beings through family ethics, while Almodóvar, More from feminist ideas, he digs deeply into the role women play in this society. His films are not as wonderful as Tarantino's narrative, nor as gorgeous as Jean-Pierre Genet's image style, nor as The poetic depth of Tarkovsky's films, but the simple image style and ordinary narrative, has touched the hearts of people all over the world.
First of all, let me talk about the meaning of the word "I" in the title of the film "All About My Mother". Some people say that "I" refers to Easterban, the son of Manmura, who was killed in a car accident. It is said that the "I" in it refers to Easterban, the child of Sister Lusa, and the story is told through the perspective of the young Eastban who has AIDS growing up. Others say that the "I" refers to the director Almo. From Dowa's perspective, many people have orientated the meaning of "I". I don't think it is necessary. Maybe this is the director's original intention. Like the novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowles, it is different. Audiences will have different ways of understanding, maybe this is what Almodóvar thought, blurring the "I" in it, so that different viewers will have different views, and my views are different from the above three views. The difference, I think the "I" in the film is a film completed from the perspectives of the director, Eastban, and Little Eastban, because one person's perspective may make the film's narrative thin, and the three people's Ideas often make the plot of this movie dramatic, and the plot follows from life and is higher than life.
In the film, the mother Manmura and her son Eastban did not stay together for a long time. The director did not describe the family relationship between mother and son, but interspersed three scenes of Manmura and Eastban watching a play. The scene is the film "Comet Beauty". One is a film about organ transplantation, and the other is the stage play "A Streetcar Named Desire". Many people don't understand why a director who is good at depicting love-related themes chooses to intersperse these three scenes. My personal understanding is that the director did this to foreshadow the plot, and to make these plays become clues to the plot. At the beginning of the film, Manmura was described in detail as a nurse in an organ transplant hospital, watching it with his son. The organ transplant film is to pave the way for Easterban to be rescued from a car accident and have no hope of donating organs. The previous mother and son watched the organ transplant process together, which undoubtedly paved the way for the narrative of the later film; As for "A Streetcar Named Desire" , it can be said to be the core of the film, and it promotes the development of the whole movie. All are connected to the play, and this play foreshadows the tragic fate shared by the actresses in the play: Manmura and transgender Lola give birth to a son, and then the son chases Yan Fan, the stage star. , unfortunately died in a car accident; Yan Mi's inner loneliness and loneliness who looks like the scenery on the stage but is not known; the innocent Lusha is pregnant with the child of Lora, but unfortunately contracted AIDS and returned to the West; the fate of these women and "Desire" The play "Street Car No." contrasts with each other, and it expresses the director's idea very well: the discrimination and injustice endured by women in society.
The use of repetition in the film is also very good. The first time I heard this film modifier was the analysis of Zhang Yang's "Bath" in "The Art of Film Director" written by Mr. Han Xiaolei. There are five dementia sons in the film. The scene of running with his father has a different meaning each time. Here, the comparison is repeated to achieve the visual effect the director wants. This film is no exception. Manmura returned to Barcelona three times, and once was pregnant. The child of transgender Lola returned to Madrid alone. One time, after his son Eastban died in an accident, in order to satisfy his son's wishes, Manmura embarked on the road to find her husband and went to Barcelona. The third time was Manuel La took the child of Sister Luca and returned to Madrid again. Through the repetition of these three journeys, she showed Murat's complicated mood. No journey was full of faith and sunshine. It is a process of inner destruction, which also reflects the director's conception, describing the hardships and hardships of a mother in a rapidly developed and indifferent society.
In addition, the subject matter in the film is also very rich. It is difficult to say exactly which type of film this film belongs to, because there are too many intentions involved in the film, such as homosexuality, AIDS, intersex, drug addiction, etc. Wait, the composition of these elements makes this film intricate, but to categorize this film, I think ethical films should be more suitable, because the dark elements involved in the film are all about the tragic experience of Murat, the mother Do the foreshadowing.
The success of a director involves a variety of factors, some are the wonderful narrative structure of the storytelling, such as Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, some are the film's profound artistic conception, such as Bergman, Tarkovsky, Angel, and some reflect the society. The substantive problems are profound, such as Akira Kurosawa and the Darney brothers, and some are the sharp logical thinking of the film. For example, the films of Hitchcock, Nolan and Almodóvar do not have complicated scene scheduling and gorgeous lens language. But being able to impress the audience with his profound thoughts is invaluable. It is this simplicity and the above-average feelings that make "All About Mother" a film bag that has won many awards.
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