met Almodovar for the first time, and the film "Everything About My Mother" was an excellent recommendation letter, which left a deep first effect.
Entering the film with curiosity about the title, who is "my mother" referring to? Seeing the handsome boy calling for his mother to come to the play, he decided that Manela was undoubtedly his mother, and "I" was of course the child Esteban. The mother prepares dinner for the child, the mother and son eat side by side, watch the play, chat and laugh together, send the son's favorite author's book as a birthday present, and accompany the son to the play, what a happy family! The bright colors, cheerful rhythm, and warm plot create a happy atmosphere for people, and even the audience is infected with this happiness, and even ignores the absence of a character-a role that a complete family should exist and occupy an important position, It wasn't until the son said "You never told me about my father" that we found out that the director never told us about his father, so what about his father? who is he? Where is he?
At this moment, the boy suddenly died across the street. With such a fast pace, there was no time to react. The son who had never seen his father disappeared from the world. The director gave no room for buffering. We were still full of curiosity about the absent father. Can be stunned. Watching the grief-stricken mother crying on the street, donating her son's heart to the verge of collapse, frantically searching for the successor of her son's heart, and finally going to Barcelona to fulfill her son's wish, which led to the following series story. What guides mothers to do these things? Is it sensible? I am afraid that anyone who has experienced the pain of losing a child still has reason to do things calmly. It is instinct, it is the instinct of mother's love that makes her follow in her son's footsteps, her son's heart, her son's wish, and she returned to Barcelona again.
These plots all revolve around Manela, around the mother, and let us see what kind of painful experience a mother has gone through, but then everything changes, and the "mother" is not just the mother," I'm no longer me.
Shortly after entering Barcelona, Esteban's mother saw a prostitute being raped on the side of the road in a taxi. She did not hesitate to get out of the car to help, but the prostitute helped the fallen man first and pointed to the man. his direction. That was the person who abused her just now. Not only did he not "beat the drowning dog" according to his usual thinking, but he also extended a helping hand. What is his idea? Surprised, watching the two women walk forward together, I realized that this is mother's love, this is mother. Not only is Manela the mother, the prostitute is also the "mother". Manela extends a helping hand to strangers, in a sense she is the mother of the rescued, while the prostitute backhand forgives the abuser, shows him the way, and is also the "mother" of the abuser. It turns out that forgiveness is "mother's love", and all those who save lives are "mothers".
In later episodes, we have a deeper understanding of the prostitute. It turned out that she was a phoenix sister, and she was named A Yue because "it is her duty to please the public". A Yue has undergone high-priced plastic surgery to change her appearance, and she has not eaten a meal to maintain her figure. Isn't this all to please the guests and the public? Even if she was beaten up by a guest, she quickly forgave her, and it would be no exaggeration to say that she was the guest's mother. What is it that the person who makes it his duty to please the masses is not the mother of the masses? Which mother doesn't revolve around her child. In order to make her child happy, she can do anything, give up her life, not her own career, not only in Spain, but also in large cities and towns in China. There are countless such mothers who sacrifice themselves for their children. . Every woman has her own dreams when she is young, she also wants to pursue what she likes, and she also looks forward to a free life as an adult. Although their previous identities are different, once they have children, they all become A person has a common name - mother.
Then, Manela and Feng sister Ayue went to find a nun. Ayue described her as "the sweet and charming one who often goes to the red light district to help people". She was a nun with a beautiful face, and she was a nun with a child in her arms. It looks like the Virgin in a religious painting. This is the other mother in this film - the biological mother of the third Esteban. In addition to volunteering in the community and helping prostitutes at the bottom of society in the red light district, Sister Lusa plans to go to El Salvador to support the poor people in the third world, and even introduced the "prostitute" Manela to work at her own home. Man, who can say that she is not qualified to be a mother? Of course, Lusa herself was pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy named Esteban, but she died during childbirth and did not really nurse her own child. Therefore, it is better to say that Lusa is the mother of her own son. It is more appropriate to be the mother of the bottom group of society.
So far, three mothers have appeared in this film, so who else?
The movie star Yanmi appeared, but she was so beautiful in the eyes of outsiders that she was lonely and helpless when she first saw Manela, and could only rely on the help of strangers, but even so, she was also a mother. Looking around for Nina in the middle of the night, she smoked a cigarette anxiously and said, "Where is this little girl?" A "little girl" showed how much love and pity. Isn't this a kind of maternal love? Yes, Yanmi and Nina are a pair of homosexuals, but in the film we rarely see the love between Nina and Yanmi's ordinary lovers, some just complain, quarrel, flee, and see more Yanmi Fans' tolerance, tolerance, concern, and love for Nina, from the perspective of Yanmi, are not so much a lover, but more like a female elder who cares for young girls, and can be abstracted into the "mother" group of older women. . On the other hand, Yan Mi is a "mother" actor. At the end of the film, Yan Mi plays a mother who lost her beloved son in her acting career, with blood and mud and unspeakable grief. I have to say that the audience's "mother" image is lifelike, which makes people cry. Therefore, Yanmi is also a mother, and she exudes maternal love both in and out of the play.
So far, all the positive images of mothers have appeared, and the answer to the mother's identity puzzle has been revealed. But what about Lola, the father of two Estebans? We know that Lola is a shemale who "integrates men and women with corrupt virtues". He does all evil and loses his conscience. It is not an exaggeration for such a person to be punished by God, and everyone will be punished. However, the ending is not like this. The greatness of the mother is often unimaginable. Lola himself was seriously ill, and it can be said that he deserved it. God punished him, but his mother forgave him. Not only did Manela let him kiss his younger son, he also left him the dead son's photo and notebook, giving him back the right to be a father. This is the mother, no matter how much you hurt her, she will forgive her.
In addition to these touching images of mothers, there are two mothers with mixed reviews - the mother of the elderly woman Lusa and the young girl Nina.
Lusa's mother is a second-rate painter, an old woman who is critical and difficult to get along with, but these do not hinder the establishment of her motherhood and her motherly love. Maybe she doesn't understand her child well enough, but she can't be blamed for the mother and daughter being strangers. During her daughter's pregnancy, she is willing to provide all she can to help her daughter. Therefore, she is also a qualified mother. Moreover, she is also her husband's "mother". For such a husband who is as indistinguishable as a child, she gives him all the care of his mother's love. Nina, on the other hand, is a young actress, the lover of the movie star Yanmi, who eventually gave birth to a child and became a mother. We don't know what Nina looks like after becoming a mother. May she learn to be tolerant and tolerant like many mothers in the world. As a mother of a fat and ugly child, she must also be under great pressure to accept herself as a mother. hard life.
Corresponding to the mother are the father and the child. The two fathers in the film, one transgender and the other demented, both escaped their fatherly roles, abandoned their fatherly duties, and threw all the hardships of life to their mothers. Looking back, these mothers, without exception, had a tragic and bumpy life, but they all accepted such a fate, and bravely took on their motherhood responsibilities and lived on tenaciously. The same is true of mothers all over the world, and all those women who are tolerant, brave, and tenacious in their lives are also great mothers.
As a child, all of them are blessed and helped by their mother, and this child who is blessed by mother's love is not only two Estebans, but also violent clients, helpless prostitutes, refugees from the third world, and audiences of the theater. , the demented husband, including countless "me" and "we" in front of the screen. This is "me" and my "mother".
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