I want to write about "21 Grams", because I found out from this film that I have always liked actors of the type Sean Penn. Of course, if you know more about him in life, you may not be able to maintain this preference. How long, but I still insist, I really like Sean Penn as an actor. And I was secretly fortunate that I read the introduction of the film before watching "21 Grams", otherwise, like many people who walked out of the cinema, I would shake my head and sigh and say that I couldn't understand it, and I didn't know what I was talking about.
However, after watching Almodovar's "The Skin of My Residence", I decided to post the thoughts of these two films about the actors later, so let's share Almodovar's new film first.
After watching it, I felt that it would be difficult to see this heavy-flavoured film in theaters in my lifetime. Alas, when will Chinese films be graded?
At first, I thought it was a thriller, but in fact we found that it was still a very good movie. Modova's movies, just put on a cloak of fake horror.
As Almodovar himself commented on the film: the film is a "horror film without screams and frights", "but will not follow any rules", "will be the cruelest film I have ever made". I think the word cruelty is used very well. As for why, I believe that people who have seen the movie will feel it.
It is said that the film was inspired by the novel "The Tarantula", but the film is quite different from the original book. It is a metaphor for the intricate cobweb-like relationship between everyone in this film. The fates of many characters are intertwined like a cobweb, and the multi-clue narrative structure is what Almodóvar is best at. This is Almodóvar's first attempt at horror.
In fact, I still don't know how to describe the feeling of watching the film. It seems that any words are pale under the scalpel.
If I follow the normal narrative order of the photos, I should tell the story like this: This is a story spanning 12 years. The male protagonist is a middle-aged plastic surgeon with superb medical skills. He has a half-brother, (the mother In fact, it is the maid of the doctor's family. The younger brother is an illegitimate child and has never been recognized.) The younger brother fled with his wife. An accident happened on the road. The car hit the cliff and caught fire. The doctor's younger brother abandoned the car and fled. His wife Vera was rescued, but she was severely burned. To treat his wife, doctors began researching a skin that would not be damaged by fire, which would inevitably involve conducting experiments and finding living subjects as subjects. GMOs have always been a controversial topic anyway.
Under the doctor's careful care, Vera could get out of bed, but just as she was attracted to the bedside by the beautiful singing of her little daughter, she saw her ugly face in the reflection of the window. Unable to accept this fact, the former beauty jumped out of the window. Her little daughter didn't know if she was stimulated by the jumping off the building, and her nerves began to feel abnormal. The director did not describe it carefully, but only mentioned it lightly when the doctor brought her little daughter, who had improved, to the banquet. Then there was this girl who had just gotten better, but unfortunately was raped at the banquet by a young man who was overdosing on drugs. Worst of all, when her father found her, the overly frightened girl identified her father as a rapist and was never able to let him approach him again, fortunately for the girl herself, no Not long after, she also died.
The mad doctor found the real rapist and the perfect subject for him. He kidnapped the young man and began to transform him in all aspects. In the end, he not only created a rapist who is not afraid of burning and animal bites. The most perfect skin, he also turned this young man into a beautiful woman, not only beautiful, but a real woman, she named her Vera, her face after plastic surgery is exactly like his dead ex-wife Vera...
According to this The narration seems to be relatively clear, but I strongly recommend everyone to watch the movie. You must know that this is Almodovar. How could he follow the rules and design a normal movie plot for you, how could he have no sex, no Killing, no death?
So, just like this, the film begins with an inexplicably beautiful young woman wearing a strange anti-stress suit all over her body, and she is imprisoned and not allowed to go downstairs. Every day the doctor admires her on the big screen, but not in the same room. The maid downstairs is loyal and she is also monitoring the woman, pay attention to the word I use, loyal, why not? Because she is the biological mother of the doctor.
After 6 years of changes, this man not only has the most perfect skin and delicate face, but also gradually won the trust of Banderas and made him regard himself as his love. I thought Vera was already a classic Stockholm Syndrome in love with her kidnapper, but Almodóvar tells us again, you're wrong. After the erotic fusion, the doctor Banderas was shot to death by him, and the sad transgender man was finally able to return to his mother's arms.
It seems that everyone in the film is immortal, but the one thing they all have in common is that they all die.
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