Old Madrid, Almodovar's Memories Refract: Guilt and Awakening

Lukas 2022-03-25 09:01:22

'Julieta', the twentieth film of Almodóvar's directorial career, is adapted from the short story 'Runaway' by Canadian writer Alice Munro. fleeting) and 'Silence'. The film was first shown (but lost) in Cannes and was released recently. Despite the mediocre word of mouth, this kind of calm narrative has won my heart. Almodóvar has always been good at expressing the social issues of his life. What I see in 'Julieta' is not only the transformation of the protagonist's thinking in his life stage, but more about the Madrid society in Almodóvar's youth. refraction.

This is the story of a middle-aged woman who abandoned her lover to find her. Julieta and her lover Lorenzo planned to move to Portugal for a year, (she said to Lorenzo at the time, I hope never to come back), but at this time, she accidentally heard news of her long-lost daughter, and she gave up escaping , determined to face it. Actor Darío Grandinetti, who plays Lorenzo, appeared in Almodóvar's 2006 film "Tell Her," playing a perfectly similar, perfectly ignored character. Sixteen years ago, he played a feminine and self-centered writer who was far inferior to her ex-boyfriend in the heart of a matador's girlfriend; he came back sixteen years later to play the first one who was abandoned or abandoned. Erchun, apart from his bald head, his face really hasn't changed at all.

So the movie begins with Julieta's middle-aged retrospective and begins a narrative that is basically Julieta's first-person perspective. When she was young, she wore Almodovar's short fluffy hair, a blue shirt, and blue stockings (very killing Matt). A middle-aged man tried to strike up a conversation with her. She hid in the dining car and met the fisherman Xoan, and the fisherman outside the window. Male deer asking for a female. Unexpectedly, the lonely middle-aged man had planned to commit suicide by lying on the rails and died in the middle, but it led to her and married husband Xoan's train love, and their daughter Antiia was born.

I don't know how long the green hat has been worn, and her daughter will be playing soy sauce. Julieta confirmed that Xoan has always maintained an intimate relationship with his friend Ava. In fact, when she came on the first day, the old aunt of Xoan's family told her, but she refused to face the truth, and finally succeeded in taking the position to drive away the old aunt. Finally, when Xoan confessed to cheating, he got into an argument. Xoan went out to sea on the day of the dispute and was killed by a thunderstorm. Julieta was burdened with the guilt she felt for Xoan for a lifetime.

When the daughter learns that her father is dead, she and Bea are in a fiery love affair. However, he disappeared after saying that he would go to the mountain monastery for psychological treatment. When she went to the monastery to look for her daughter, the monastery said, "Your family has no faith, and Antia needs faith most, and faith makes her happy again." Here the audience can already see from a third-party objective point of view that her daughter ran away from home. Reason: Religious persecution of homosexuality. Antia is as guilty as Julieta. (The guilt is contagious, Julieta says.) Brainwashing beliefs can cause a person oppressed by guilt to abandon their family and the people they love most and marry into someone else's child-bearing machine.

People who believe they are guilty have no ability to think objectively. Julieta is very self-centered and good at self-hypnosis:
The first man: She found that the middle-aged man had only brought an empty luggage into the car. He blamed his death on his own head. (Would a middle-aged man commit suicide by lying on the rails to kill Matt? I don't know)
Second man: She subconsciously knew that Xoan and Ava had an affair, and firmly believed that Xoan's death was caused by her.
The third man: She found out about her father's affair with her maid, felt sadness and guilt for her bedridden mother, and completely forgot that she was dealing with another woman's husband.
Her Daughter: Julieta believes her own fault series caused her daughter to leave without saying goodbye.

This is actually the process of people (not just women) from unconditional guilt to awakening. Until Bea finally revealed her true relationship with Antia, Julieta couldn't see that the responsibility for her daughter's running away was not on her. And if Antia doesn't try to abandon her close relatives and live a life that doesn't belong to her, she won't be cornered and get lost.

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