"Since when did men stop crying?"
If "All About My Mother" is a video text in the absence of men, then "Tell Her" is a video text in which a woman is aphasia. Almodovar uses two sets of stories of different genders to reflect on the fate of men and women in contrast and continuation, and constructs a world of "people". The exploration meaning of "Tell Her" is even more subversive. It goes beyond the traditional feminist film style of Almodóvar. It uses two sentimental men and two female partners who share aphasia, and uses a tragic and emotional narrative. In self-recognition and exploration, I have a deep look at the world with compassion and tender eyes.
The gap between women and men is like two sides of a mirror. Women stand on the back of the mirror, as if performing a lonely dance on a dark continent, while men can only traverse that uncommunicative situation and gain spiritual belonging by recognizing the mirror. Mirrors exist as metaphors. In real society, men are a mirror that mirrors women, and women, in turn, are a mirror that mirrors men. One-sentence evaluation - "Reflecting and penetrating the world of women through the world of men, and exploring the process of men's self-authentication through attention to women's images".
In "Talk to Her", the two heroines are set to be in a deep coma, which is a kind of isolation of women's discourse and shackles of women's bodies. The two men, compared to the tough guy image in mainstream culture, are more like two sentimental guardians. In the process of guarding the women who are aphasia, they establish friendship and identify their self-worth. Almodovar constructed two women whose consciousness died, which is undoubtedly the construction of all women—a blow to and refutation of the discourse of patriarchy, a man who delusionally acts as a savior in the world of women, just like a male dancer on the stage Like the dancers, they don't know where the female dancer will pounce in the next second and what kind of danger they will encounter.
Almodovar used men full of so-called "femininity" to achieve self-salvation in the process of saving women. In the silent film of the play-in-play, the smaller scientist disappears in the lover's huge genitalia, and returns to the idealized return to the picturesque body, which has the meaning of love and return to the mother. The result of the mime also hinted at the death of Benino, a form of what Benino called "running away." After taking care of the sleepy and missing her, after she became pregnant with Benino's child and woke up during childbirth, she would never be informed of the existence of Benino, who would be imprisoned because of this. She still lives as a male In the right to speak, is an ordinary woman who is imprisoned by reality. Obviously, Almodóvar gave men a very helpless and pessimistic result to save women. Instead, it was men—Benino chose to die after experiencing all this: under the protection of women, he got another Immortal life, a wider and more fertile freedom.
"Strength is not strength, gentleness is not weakness... Between and around men and women, there is a vast, unexplored and exciting realm of knowledge. Here, the liberation we seek is our humanity, not anything Male or female, the human mind has no gender."
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